Epson Equity II - Manual (Page 23)

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Figure 1-10. Connecting a printer
5. Plug the printer’s power cable into an electrical outlet.
Note: You can plug some printers into the unswitched AC outlet on
the back panel, if the printer’s power consumption does not
exceed 1.5 amps.
Serial interface
If you have a printer (or another peripheral such as a modem) with a
serial interface, connect it to the port marked SERIAL on the back panel
of the main unit. If your cable has a male D-connector at both ends, you
need an adapter to connect it to the computer. To connect a serial device,
follow the same steps above for connecting a parallel device.
To use a printer connected to the serial port, you need to use the
MS-DOS SETMODE program (or the MODE command) to indicate the
RS-232C serial port is in use and to direct printer output to the serial
instead of the parallel port. See your MS-DOS manual for instructions.
The Equity II character set
The Equity II uses a special character set that assigns graphics and
international characters to some ASCII codes. In most cases, if you try to
print these characters on a standard printer, you get italic characters in-
stead. Some Epson printers support the IBM character set (the character
set the Equity II uses) as a standard feature, and you can adapt others.
Also, some application programs can print the special graphics charac-
ters on a standard printer when you use a special printer driver program.
Ask your Epson dealer for more information.
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