Epson TM
U220 Reference Guide

4-4 Troubleshooting Rev. E
2. Turn off the printer, and close the roll paper cover, and turn it back on. Then the cutter blade
returns to the normal position. If you would like not to turn off the printer, send an error
recovery command and initialize printer command instead.
3. If the cutter blade doesn’t return to the normal position, return the cutter blade to the normal
position by rotating the autocutter knob in the direction of the arrow. When it is returned to
the normal position, a lever comes into the center of hole in the autocutter frame.
4. Close the roll paper cover.
4.4 Printer Stops Printing / Printer Repeats Printing on a Line
When you connect the wrong power supply unit, printer will not perform correctly. See below
to determine which power supply unit should be connected to the printer.
TM-U220 Alphanumeric model (Type A,B, D) TM-U220 Multilingual model (Type A,B, D)
AC Adapter C (which is packed with ANK model)
or PS-180 (Which is provided as an option)
PS-180 (which is packed with the Multilingual model)
Cutter cover
Autocutter unit
Lever
Hole
Knob

Epson TM
U220 Specifications

General

Print speed	4.7 lps
Character size	1.6 x 3.1 mm
Print technology	Dot matrix
Paper dimensions	57.5±0.5/69.5±0.5/76±0.5 x 83.0
Dimensions (WxDxH)	160 x 286 x 157.5 mm
Certification	WEEE/RoHS
Mean time between failures (MTBF)	180000 h
Parallel connector	Yes
Standard interfaces	Parallel