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Adapted from the Okidata Microline 393/393C Plus Setup Guide
Your Okidata printer has a menu that you can access from your control panel. Using the Menu Select mode, you can customize your printer.
When you are working in the Menu Select mode, your Okidata printer uses the paper as its display screen. It prints out almost everything that you would expect to see on a screen display so be sure to read everything that prints out while you are in the Menu Select mode.
Before you enter Menu Select mode, be sure that your printer has ribbon and paper.
NOTE: Remeber, now that you're in Menu Select mode, the functions written below the keys are active. For example, the SELECT button is now the EXIT button.
If you want to leave Menu Select mode at any time just press the EXIT button.
The first thing that you should know is that the Menu Select mode is just a menu of the Okidata printer features. You may want to change the default settings (settings programmed in at the factory) of some of those features to fit your needs (see Hardware settings for printers recommended by Innovative for locations in the INNOPAC manual for particular Okidata printers). For example, you may want to change the page length to 14 inches if you have legal size documents or 3 inches if you're working on labels or small cards.
The menu is made up of five groups:
Before you begin, press the PRINT button to get a list of groups, items, and settings. This list will tell you what the current settings are for your Okidata printer. Use this list to find your way around the menu.
Press the GROUP button to move from group to group. If you pass the group that you want, just keep cycling though. It will come up again.
Press the ITEM button to move between the items in a group.
Press the SET button to cycle through the settings for an item. To choose a setting, press the SET button until you come to the setting you want then press the ITEM button to move on to the next item.
Press the EXIT button to save your changes. See Appendix A of the Okidata Setup Guide for a list of the menu options and see the Okidata printer Reference Guide for more detailed explanations.
Eastern Data Paper, PO Box 202, Little Falls NJ 07424, 1-800-524-2528. Product number P/N H36192-P. This is for the Seiko DPU-411 printer. Price is $17.95 per box of 5 rolls, minimum order 3 boxes, i.e., about $54 for 15 rolls.
Innovative only has the Seiko printer available for narrow carriage output. This is the same printer that they offer with the standard OCLC logging interface and uses thermal paper.
Along the lines of actual receipt printers, five libraries mentioned that they are using Star Micronics printers of the SP200 or SP300 series, two are using Citizen iDP3530's, and one is using an Epson TM300PD. All use standard 3" wide adding machine tape and ribbons which keep the cost low for supplies.
The specs that I have for the Star printers include 2.5-3.2 inches per second with bi-directional dot matrix printing. They come in serial or parallel flavors.
I have two suppliers for the printers:
Of the sample printouts that I received, checkout, fine payment, and listing of fines owed receipts looked very legible. The checked-out item receipts were harder to read with titles wrapping at strange breaks in the words. They would look better if the title came first as with the other receipts.
Adapted from http://next1.ccsu.edu:8001/innopac/1997/innopac.9710_29After searching the archives and talking to some III libraries, we ordered 8 receipt printers from Instruments & Equipment Company, 1-800-432-1255. We ordered Star Micronics DP-8340FC and DP-8340 FM, with 4.5 " paper.
Adapted from an INNOPAC posting from Flora Jeanne HochThe INNOPAC software officially supports these printers for locally-attached printers (INNOPAC Manual, R11-#657):
The INNOPAC software officially supports these printers as system printers (INNOPAC Manual, R11-#863):
The INNOPAC manual contains the hardware settings for printers recommended by Innovative. The table below gives the locations of these setting recommendations.
| Printer Name | Location in the INNOPAC Manual |
| Epson LX-300 | R11-674 |
| Kodak Diconix 180si | R11-692 |
| Okidata Microline 320 | R11-710 |
| Okidata Microline 320 Turbo | R11-756 |
| Okidata Microline 393 (for "Attached" printers) | R11-817 |
| Okidata Microline 393 (for "System" printers) | R11-872 |
| Okidata Microline 393 PLUS | R11-910 |
| Okidata Microline 395 | R11-959 |
| HP LaserJet 5N | R11-1016 |