LQ-870 Impact Printer

The newer LQ-870/LQ-1170 printers do not have dip switches.
Hold down the FONT button while you turn the printer on. It will
print out its settings and tell you how to change them.

* Indicates the factory setting

Table 1

Switch		ON	OFF
SW 1-1	Switches 1-1 to 1-4 control Internal character sets/Character Tables Refer to Tables 3 and 4 below for settings
SW 1-2
SW 1-3
SW 1-4
SW 1-5	Print Direction	Unidirectional	Bidirectional*
SW 1-6	High-speed draft	Off	On*
SW 1-7	Input buffer	None	8 Kbytes*
SW 1-8	1" Skip-over-Perforation	On	Off*

Table 2

Switch		ON	OFF
SW 2-1	Page Length (for continuous paper)	See Table 5
SW 2-2
SW 2-3	Tear off	On	Off*
SW 2-4	Auto line feed	On	Off*

Table 3 International character sets

Country	SW 1-1	SW 1-2	SW 1-3	SW 1-4
USA	ON	ON	ON	OFF*
France	ON	ON	OFF	OFF
Germany	ON	OFF	ON	OFF
United Kingdom	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF
Denmark 1	OFF	ON	ON	OFF
Sweden	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF
Italy	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF
Spain 1	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF

Table 4 Character table

Graphics Type	SW 1-1	SW 1-2	SW 1-3	SW 1-4
Italic				Off*
PC 437 (United States)	ON	ON	ON	ON
PC 850 (Multilingual)	ON	ON	OFF	ON
PC 860 (Portugal)	ON	OFF	ON	ON
PC 863 (Canada-French)	ON	OFF	OFF	ON
PC 865 (Norway)	OFF	ON	ON	ON

Table 5

Page Length	SW 2-1	SW 2-2
8.5 inches (216 mm)	OFF	ON
11 inches (279 mm)	OFF	OFF*
11.7 inches (296 mm)	ON	ON
12 inches (305 mm)	ON	OFF