BRAILLE BLAZER MANUAL

     This is the second revision of the Braille Blazer manual, dated December 
20, 1990.
     This manual is composed of 6 sections:
     Section 1 is the "Introduction."
     Section 2 is "A Physical Tour of The Braille Blazer."
     Section 3 concerns "Loading The Paper."
     Section 4 covers "The Configuration Menus."
     Section 5 tells you what to do "In Case of Difficulty."
     Section 6 lists the "Factory Defaults."

                       SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
     Congratulations on your purchase of the Braille Blazer. We at Blazie 
Engineering hope that you enjoy your printer, and that you get many years of 
satisfactory use out of it.
     We would also like to encourage you to give us feedback on the product! 
Please tell us your likes and dislikes. Let us know what improvements you would 
like to see in the future. Your feedback is an invaluable part of what makes 
our products better.
     The Braille Blazer is a product of Blazie Engineering.
     Our mailing address is: Blazie Engineering, 105 East Jarrettsville Road,
Forest Hill, Maryland 21050.
     Our voice phone number is 410-893-9333.
     The Fax number is 410-836-5040.
     If you have a MODEM, you may call our BBS (Bulletin Board System) at 
410-893-8944. It's the "Braille Inn-Speakout." Use 300/1200/2400 BAUD, 8 data 
bits, no parity and 1 stop bit to reach the BBS. The Fido-net node number is 
261/1089.
     You may also contact Deane Blazie on GEnie (General Electric Network For 
Information Exchange) by using the GEmail address of "D.BLAZIE".
     The Braille Blazer is capable of printing either text or graphics. In both 
modes dots are printed 90 thousandths of an inch apart; however, in the 
graphics mode there is no space between the braille cells. The Braille Blazer 
produces graphics using the same software as the Cranmer Modified Perkins 
Brailler. Pixcells runs on an Apple II and is available from Raised Dot 
Computing. Their phone number is 608-257-8833. Personal Data Systems offers a 
graphics program which will run on an IBM PC. You may call them at 408-866-1126.
     The Braille Blazer has industry standard serial and parallel ports. The 
serial port implements DTE (Data Terminal Equipment). The Braille Blazer 
receives data on pin 3 of its serial port, and sends data to the other device 
on pin 2.
     You may connect a parallel printer cable from your PC, for example, to the 
parallel port on the Braille Blazer. A serial cable may be connected from your 
printer to the PC with a "null" MODEM adapter, or directly to the Braille 'n 
Speak.
     Parallel or serial cables are not supplied with the Braille Blazer, but 
are available from Blazie Engineering. Blazie Engineering also offers a wide 
variety of other cables, adapters, braille paper, and other devices such as the 
Braille 'n Speak.
     The warranty on the Braille Blazer is a 90-day "exchange" warranty from 
the date of purchase. Please fill out and return the enclosed warranty 
registration certificate as soon as possible.
     The top portion of the certificate contains the warranty registration. The
bottom part is for the maintenance agreement. There is a line printed across 
the page showing where to cut the 2 forms apart.
     The top part of the certificate says in part: This certificate validates 
your warranty and allows you to receive news and information about improvements 
to your Braille Blazer.
     You are asked to fill in the following information: Customer/company name, 
User Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, Date Purchased, serial Number.
     A maintenance agreement is available from Blazie Engineering after the 
warranty period, for a cost of $250.00 per year.
     The bottom part of the warranty certificate is for the maintenance 
agreement and says in part:
     To purchase a maintenance agreement, please complete this section and mail 
with your payment of $250.00 or use your VISA or MasterCard with just a phone 
call. We must receive payment before the 90-day warranty has expired for 
continuous coverage. Your maintenance agreement covers all Braille Blazer 
repairs (excluding physical damage and damage from abuse), parts and labor for 
a period of 1 year from when the warranty expires. During that time, if your 
unit should fail, call Blazie Engineering, and we will make arrangements to 
send you a replacement unit. This maintenance agreement also entitles you to 
"Firmware" updates to Braille Blazer.
     I wish to purchase a service agreement for my Braille Blazer. Payment of 
$250.00 is enclosed.
     Company Name, User Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, Date Purchased, 
serial Number.
     The address and phone number of Blazie Engineering is listed on both parts 
of the form. The fax number is listed on the bottom portion.
     If you would like a braille copy of this manual, send a check or money 
order to: Irwin Hott, 1540 Northridge Road, Columbus, Ohio 43224. The cost of 
the 36-page manual is $12.00 (punched, with rings) or $15.00 (in a hard-cover 
notebook).

           SECTION 2: A PHYSICAL TOUR OF THE BRAILLE BLAZER
     The Braille Blazer is a rather small device. It weighs about 12 lb. It's 
about 14 in. wide, 10 in. deep and about 5 in. high. The printing speed is 
approximately 15 cps. (characters per second).
     On the top right side of the Braille Blazer is a small keypad composed of 
3 buttons. These buttons are used to move the paper and to configure the 
Braille Blazer.
     On the top left side is a spring-loaded rocker switch which allows you to 
move the paper forward or backward in large or small increments.
     To open the top cover of the Braille Blazer, simply lift up on the center 
of the front edge. The cover is used mainly to reduce noise.
     To remove the cover, locate either spring-loaded hinge-pin on the inside
of the cover, and pull the pin toward the center.
     There are 2 nylon bumpers which hold the cover closed.
     The "paper out" sensor is located about 2.5 in. in from the left edge of 
the printing area, and about 1/2 in. from the front of the printer.
     The embossing bar or platen is about an inch in from the front edge of the 
printer, and runs the full width of the printing area.
     Take a look at the right side of the platen. You will find a 
rubber-covered handle. If it is toward you, this sets up the Braille Blazer to 
print graphics. Rotating the platen so the handle is away from you changes the 
printer to text mode.
     About an inch behind the embossing bar is the tractor mechanism. In the 
center of the covers of the tractor mechanism are the recessed levers which 
allow you to set the tractors for the width of the paper you are using. Just 
pull the levers toward the front of the Braille Blazer to release the tractors. 
You may now slide the tractors from side to side. Pushing the levers toward the 
rear of the printer will lock the tractors in place. I find it easiest to leave 
the left-hand tractor set in one place and only move the right one.
     The "top-of-form" sensor is about 2.5 in. from the left side of the 
printing area, just behind the tractor mechanism. This sensor "finds" the top 
of the first page.
     On the rear of the Braille Blazer is a connector panel.
     If you are facing the front of the Braille Blazer and reach over the top, 
on the lower right rear is the on/off switch. It is a rocker switch, with up 
being on, and down being off. Just above this is the voltage selector switch.
From the factory it is set to 115Volts A.C., but can be changed for 220V A.C.
operation.
     To the left of the on/off switch is a 3-pin AC power connector.
     To the left of the power connector is the 36-pin Centronics parallel 
connector. The connector has 2 clips which may be used to secure your parallel 
cable.
     Next is the DB-25 female serial connector. Make sure the clip from the 
parallel connector is out of the way before plugging in your serial cable.
     To the left of the serial port is a monaural "miniature" 1/8 in.) earphone 
jack. The jack is intended for an earphone or amplified speaker. Since it is 
attenuated, it will not drive a stand-alone speaker.
     Above the parallel and serial ports is the Braille Blazer's handle.
     Just above the handle is the speaker.

                     SECTION 3: LOADING THE PAPER
     The Braille Blazer will only work with tractor fed paper. The paper may be 
as wide as 9 in; however 8.5 in. paper is the standard. The paper may be as 
heavy as 100 lb. "tag" or braille paper.
     To load the paper, open the cover, and slide the paper under the embossing 
bar. Lift up on the hinged covers on each side of the tractor mechanism. Four 
pins should be exposed that fit into the sprocket holes on the paper. The paper 
should fit easily into the pins. If you aren't sure the paper is straight, 
count the holes beyond the tractors on each side, or line it up with the metal 
plate immediately behind the tractors. Then close the covers on the tractor 
mechanism.
     Now you must tell the Braille Blazer to find the "top-of-form." Turn the 
power on. The Braille Blazer should say: "Braille Blazer Ready." It should also 
move the paper backward and forward a line to get rid of any backlash in the 
paper or looseness in the tractor mechanism.
     Now move to the 3 keys on the right side of the Braille Blazer. These keys 
are labeled from front to rear: "form-feed," "line-feed" and "on-line."
     The "form-feed" button advances the paper to the top of the next page.
     The center button, the "line-feed" button, moves the paper forward 1 line 
with each push.
     "On-line" tells the Braille Blazer that it is ready, or not ready, to 
emboss. The Braille Blazer says: "On-line" or "Off-line."
     To set "top-of-form," just push the "form-feed" and "on-line" buttons at 
the same time. Those are the buttons closest to you and farthest from you. The 
Braille Blazer should say: "Set top-of-form," and you should hear the paper 
move backward then forward. If your top margin is set to 0, the Braille Blazer 
will start printing just below the perforation. If you have your top margin set 
to 1, for example, when you do a "set top-of-form," the printer will set the 
top-of-form 1 line below the perforation. When you do a "top-of-form," the 
formatter in the printer is also initialized. Note that if you do a "set 
top-of-form" after you have printed several pages, the printer will move the 
paper backward until the sensor "sees" the top of the first page.
     The rocker switch on the left side of the printer may be used to move the 
paper. Push the switch down toward you, and the paper moves toward you. Push 
the switch down away from you, and the paper moves in that direction. If you 
just tap the switch, the paper moves very slightly. Hold the switch down for a 
longer time, and the paper will move much farther. Using the rocker switch is 
just like physically moving the paper.

                  SECTION 4: THE CONFIGURATION MENUS
     This section will teach you how to configure the Braille Blazer.
     Note that the responses shown in this section assume the Braille Blazer is 
set to the factory defaults. In configuring your printer, you are telling it 
everything it needs to know to operate the way you want it to. For example, the 
Braille Blazer comes equipped with a serial and a parallel port as well as a 
speech synthesizer. So you actually have two devices in one package. Therefore, 
you must be able to tell the Braille Blazer which port to get data from in 
order to speak it, print it, or both. You can configure the Braille Blazer so 
that data to be spoken comes in the serial port, and it embosses what comes in 
the parallel port. You may decide to both print and speak what comes in the 
same port. If it speaks what is being printed, the speech will be somewhat 
choppy since the synthesizer has to wait for the printing of a line to finish.
     If you are printing a grade 2 braille file, the speech will not make much 
sense as the Braille Blazer does not translate the grade 2 file into ASCII.
     Be careful when you format your document. Do your formatting in the 
Braille Blazer, or in your other device. If you have format parameters set in 
both devices, you may run into some serious formatting problems. You must also 
make sure that all serial parameters match if you are using the serial port. 
Note that the parallel port is controlled by the sending device so no 
configuration is needed.
     In printing this manual from my Braille 'n Speak on the Braille Blazer, I 
used the following non-default parameters.
     In the Braille 'n Speak:
BAUD Rate 2400.
     I used a T chord B to print. If you use a T chord Z, remember to turn the 
Braille Translator off.
     Here is the list of the non-default Braille Blazer parameters. A full list 
of the default parameters may be found in section 6 of this manual.
     Speech Configuration
Port off.
     Printer Configuration
Port serial.
Left Margin 2.
Top Margin 1.
Bottom Margin 1.
Lines Per Page 27.
Auto-linefeed On.
     Serial Configuration
BAUD Rate 2400.
     The configuration menu in the Braille Blazer is divided into four parts:
     Speech configuration sets the port, pitch, volume, speed, etc., for the 
speech synthesizer.
     Printer configuration sets up printing parameters such as port, page 
length, left margin, top margin, etc.
     Serial port configuration allows you to set up BAUD rate, data bits, 
parity, and more.
     The Service menu is used to find out information about the printer and to 
do various tests.
     You might be wondering how we do all of the configuration with just 3 
buttons. The "form-feed," "line-feed" and "on-line" buttons become the "Enter" 
key, "Skip" or "No" key, and "Back" key.
     To get into the configuration menu, press all 3 keys at the same time. The 
Braille Blazer says: "Configuration, Speech Config." The Braille Blazer is 
really asking, "Do you want to go into speech config?" If you answer "yes" by 
pressing the "Enter" key (the key closest to you), you'll go through the speech 
configuration menu. If you answer "no" by pressing the "Skip" key (the center 
key), you move to the printer configuration menu. If you press the "Skip" key 
again, you go to Serial port configuration. "No" again gets you to the service 
menu. Pressing the "Skip" key one more time lets you exit the menus and the 
Braille Blazer says: "Exit." Another way to exit the configuration menus is to 
press all 3 keys simultaneously and the Braille Blazer says: "Exit." You are 
now back ready to print. When you exit the configuration menu, the top-of-form 
is reset.
     If you are listening to a menu item, you don't have to wait for it to 
finish speaking to set it or move on to another item.
     Now press all three keys again to get back into the configuration menu and 
the Braille Blazer says: "Configuration, Speech config."
     For those of you who are familiar with the Braille 'n Speak, many of the 
speech configuration items are similar to those implemented on that device.
     Now press the "Enter" key to say that you want the speech configuration 
menu, and the Braille Blazer says: "Port, serial." This means that anything 
coming in the serial port will be spoken. Now you have a choice. You may hit 
the "Skip" key to move to the next item in the speech configuration menu, 
leaving the serial port active for speech, or you may press the "Enter" key to 
change the active speech setting to "Off" or "Parallel." Once the speech port 
is set the way you want it, press the "Skip" key to move to the next speech 
configuration item.
     The Braille Blazer says: "Numbers, full numbers." This means that "full 
numbers" are active. If you press the "Enter" key you hear "Digits." That will 
cause the Braille Blazer to say digits instead of numbers. If you press "Enter" 
again you get "Full numbers," and again gives you "Digits."
     Pushing the "Skip" key again says "Punctuation, some." Pressing the 
"Enter" key gives you "Most" or "Total."
     Pressing the "Skip" key tells you "Voice inflection, on." You can change 
that to "Off" by pressing the "Enter" key.
     The next press of the "Skip" key gives you: "Speed, faster." Pressing the 
"Enter" key will speed up the speech in increments.
     Now by pressing the "Skip" key, the Braille Blazer says: "Speed, slower." 
Pressing the "Enter" key makes it speak more slowly.
     The next press of the "Skip" key gives you: "Pitch, higher." The "Enter" 
key will give you higher pitch.
     The "Back" key (on-line) allows you to change a setting if you skipped it 
before. Press "Back" now and the printer says: "Speed, slower." You just moved 
back to the previous parameter. You can set that parameter with the "Enter" key 
or skip it again with the "Skip" key.
     The parameter after "Pitch, higher" is, not surprisingly, "Pitch, lower."
     The next press of the "Skip" key gives you: "Volume, louder." Again 
"Enter" makes it louder.
     "Skip" again says: "Volume, softer."
     Press "Skip" again and you hear: "Voice, higher." "Enter" changes the 
voice.
     "Skip" again and you get: "Voice, lower."
     Pressing the "Skip" key again, notice that you hear: "Printer config." 
This means that the speech configuration is complete, and you have moved to the 
printer configuration menu.
     Press the "Enter" key and you'll hear: "Port, parallel." Continuing to 
press "Enter" you cycle through the options of "Serial" or "Off."
     Remember that there are independent settings for the speech synthesizer 
and the printer.
     The next option is "Left margin, 0 active." You may have a left margin of 
from 0 through 10. Just use the "Enter" key to cycle from 0 through 10 and back 
to 0 again. This simply adds the specified number of spaces to the left margin 
of your page.
     The next option is: "Right margin, 34 active." This is the maximum line 
length the Braille Blazer can print. You may set a right margin of from 28 
through 34.
     Next is: "Top margin, 0 active." You may have a top margin of from 0 
through 10 lines.
     Next is: "Bottom margin, 0 active." Again you may have a bottom margin of 
from 0 lines through 10 lines. Pressing the "Enter" key changes the bottom 
margin.
     "Lines per page, 25 active" is the next item. Lines per page may be set to 
0, or from 22 through 30. The maximum number of lines on an 11 in. long page is 
27. In some countries braille paper is regularly longer than our 11 in. 
standard.
     The next item is: "Page length, 11 active." The range is from 8.5 in. 
through 12 in. in .5 in. increments. The main purpose of this setting is to set 
the "top-of-form" properly. If you have a 9 in. long page the printer must know 
how much to move the paper to place the perforation under the platen.
     Next is "Word-wrap, on active." If you want the Braille Blazer to do 
formatting for you, leave word-wrap on so that words will not be split on 2 
lines.
     The next option is: "Paper weight, heavy active." Press the "Enter" key 
and you get "Light." This controls the force used to emboss the paper. If 
you're printing on 100 lb. braille paper or paper greater than 60 lb., you will 
get very light dots if you use the "light" setting. If you are going to braille 
on regular computer paper, 20 lb. or so, or are going to do some "throw away" 
braille, you will tend to tear the paper with the "heavy" setting. The "light" 
setting will give you nice round dots on lightweight paper.
     "Character set, U.S. ASCII active" is the next setting. Currently only 
U.S. and Spanish character sets are available. Others are planned including 
German and French. It is relatively easy to do character sets with the Braille 
Blazer, so if there are requests, others will probably be added.
     Next is "Paper out detector, on active." You can disable the "paper out" 
detector if you wish to do so. For example, if the printer cover is open, you 
may have a problem with the paper feeding into the printer at such an angle 
that the paper out detector will be fooled into thinking that the Blazer is out 
of paper. All the paper out sensor does is take the Braille Blazer off-line. 
Load more paper and press the on-line button and you will be printing again 
with no loss of data.
     Next is: "Auto-line-feed, off active." The printer has the capability of 
putting a line-feed in your data as it comes in. Normally the Braille Blazer is 
not capable of printing over itself. It prints the top row of dots in a line, 
moves down to print the middle row, and finally the bottom row of dots. If your 
document already has line-feeds in it, you would get double spacing with the 
auto-line-feed function turned on. If the document just has carriage returns, 
and line-feeds are turned off in both devices, the Braille Blazer will not 
leave a blank line if there are 2 carriage returns immediately following each 
other. Just turn the "auto-line-feed" function on in the Braille Blazer.
     Next is: "Print control characters, off active." This feature is currently 
not available.
     Next is "Braille, 6 dot active." The Braille Blazer has the capability of 
printing 6 or 8-dot braille. By pressing the "Enter" key you'll hear: "8-dot." 
In some countries, particularly in Europe, 8-dot braille is very common.
     Next is "Serial config." That means we have finished with the printer 
configuration.
     Press "Enter" and the printer will say: "Serial, BAUD rate 9600 active." 
BAUD rates available are from 75 through 9600.
     Next is: "Bits per character, 8 active." You have a choice of 7 or 8 bits.
     Next is: "Stop bits, 1 active." Options are 1 or 2.
     "Parity, none active" is next. Additional options are "Odd" or "Even."
     Next is: "Handshake, software active." You also have "None" or "Hardware" 
handshaking. Handshaking is critical when you are sending serial data to the 
Braille Blazer. If the handshaking doesn't agree between the two devices, you 
will lose characters. Software handshaking is called "x-on/x-off." When the 
buffer in the Braille Blazer has room for 64 characters in it, the printer 
sends a control s to the sending system to tell it to stop sending data. When 
the buffer has room for 256 characters, the x-on character, control q, is sent 
and the host should start sending data again. X-on/x-off has become fairly 
common; however there are some systems which do not recognize it. If you are 
doing a "copy" from MS-DOS, an x-off character will not be recognized. Hardware 
handshaking is necessary. Hardware handshaking on the Braille Blazer consists 
of pin 20 on the serial port (DTR, Data Terminal Ready) "high" when data may be 
received. Pin 20 is "low" when the buffer in the Braille Blazer is nearly full.
     There are some PC systems around that don't pay attention to pin 20. To 
connect the Braille Blazer to the serial port on a PC you must use a "null" 
MODEM adapter. Both the Braille Blazer and the PC are DTE (Data Terminal 
Equipment). Even then you may find that hardware handshaking does not work. 
Some PC'S or "null" MODEM adapters use pin 4, 5, 6 or 8 for hardware 
handshaking. If you really need hardware handshaking, you may have to 
experiment with your cable wiring. We suggest that you use software handshaking 
whenever possible and that you don't dump data directly from MS-DOS unless you 
use the parallel port.
     That completes the serial configuration menu.
     Now move on to the Service menu by pressing "Skip." The Service menu is 
used at the factory to test and set up your Braille Blazer. There are, however, 
some items in the Service menu which you may find useful.
     Press the "Enter" key and you will hear: "Print test." This is comparable 
to the self-test found on almost all ink-print printers. It will print a 
one-page brochure about the Braille Blazer if the platen is set for text, and a 
graphics test of "Braille Blazer" down the page in large letters if the printer 
is set for graphics. To access the "Print test," press the "Enter" key.
     The next test is the "Platen alignment test." Press "Skip" to move to this 
test, and then press "Enter" to execute it. This test is used at the factory to 
insure that the platen is properly aligned so that the dots are correctly 
formed. If you wish to exit a test, you must press all 3 keys at once.
     The next test is the "Dot 1" test. The Braille Blazer has 2 solenoids on 
its carriage. One is at the left of the paper, the other is in the middle of 
the page when you start printing a line. The left solenoid prints the left half 
of the page, and the right one prints the right half. The "dot 1" test prints 
dot 1 (the top left dot in the braille cell) down the left side of the page. 
This is used by the factory to align the carriage properly. Placement of dot 1 
may vary from printer to printer. The placement of dot 1, as well as other 
settings, is stored in non-volatile memory.
     The "Last dot" test is the same as the "dot 1" test except that it prints 
dot 6 down the right side of the page.
     The next test is the "Backlash adjustment" test. Once you press "Enter" to 
go into "backlash," the printer waits for you to press the left-hand paper feed 
switch either forward or backward to increase or decrease the amount of 
backlash adjustment the printer uses. The Braille Blazer uses a moving carriage 
mechanism. It moves the carriage to where it "thinks" the dot is and fires the 
solenoid which embosses the dot onto the paper. The carriage is not quite 
stopped when the solenoid is fired. Backlash reduces the difference in where 
the printer "thinks" the dot is when the carriage is moving from left to right 
or right to left.
     The next test is the "Paper out sensor test." Press the "Enter" key and 
the printer will start making a chirping sound. Lift the paper up near the left 
front edge of the printer and the sound will change if the "out of paper" 
sensor is working. To exit this test, press all 3 keys at the same time.
     The "Top-of-form sensor test" is the same type of test but for the 
top-of-form sensor.
     The next test is the "Platen sensor test." The platen sensor test detects 
whether the printer is in text or graphics mode. You will hear a higher pitched 
chirp if you are in text mode, or rotate the platen to graphics mode to hear a 
lower pitched chirp. Remember, to exit this test you must press all 3 keys.
     The next test is "Exercise carriage." This is a test that is used to "wear 
in" the Braille Blazer. If you press "Enter," the carriage will move from left 
to right, then from right to left until you press all 3 keys to exit. This test 
makes sure the printer is properly "worn in" before all of the final 
adjustments are made at the factory.
     The next thing you will hear is the serial number of your Braille Blazer. 
The number is also printed on a sticker in the tractor well which is exposed 
when you remove the paper. In addition to the serial number, the sticker says:

"Model BB-1
Made in USA
Blazie Engineering
Street Maryland 21154
110/220 volt 50 watts"

     Press "Skip" for the next item which tells you how many characters have 
been printed on your Braille Blazer. This may be very helpful in the future to 
determine what parts need to be replaced, or to design longer-lasting parts.
     The next item is the date of the software revision in your Braille Blazer. 
This manual is based on the December 20, 1990 revision. Please have your serial 
number and your software revision date handy if you call us with a problem.
     Pressing the "Skip" key once again gives you: "Exit." You are now out of 
all of the menus and ready to print.

                   SECTION 5: IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY
     If you turn the Braille Blazer on and nothing at all happens, first make 
sure the power cord is plugged in, and that the AC outlet is working. Next you 
may want to try a "warm reset." This resets all of the parameters such as BAUD 
rate, voice speed and pitch to the factory defaults. To do a "warm reset," hold 
all 3 keys down, turn power on, and immediately let up on the keys; and the 
Braille Blazer will say: "OK to reset?" If it is OK to reset, press all 3 keys 
again and the Braille Blazer will say, "OK." The carriage will be moved to the 
home position, the top-of-form will be set to where the paper is, and the paper 
will be moved to get rid of any backlash in the tractor mechanism. The 
information stored from the "dot 1" test, etc., is not changed, so you don't 
have to worry about adjustment problems.
     If you don't want to do a "warm reset," just press any single key and the 
Braille Blazer will say: "Ignored."
     Be sure that the proper port is active and that the correct cable is 
connected.
     There are 2 fuses inside the Braille Blazer. We don't expect that you will 
ever have to change these fuses.
     The Braille Blazer will run on U.S. 110 volt current or on foreign power 
sources such as 220 or 230 volts. There is a switch inside the back of the 
Braille Blazer to change the current setting.
     First, disconnect all cables from the Braille Blazer. Next, remove the 5 
screws from the bottom of the printer with a flat-blade screwdriver. Then take 
out the 2 Allen screws on the back of the printer. One is just to the right of 
the power switch and the other is about an inch and a half to the left of the 
earphone jack. You must remove 2 additional Allen screws just in front of the 
platen. Pull the plastic cover off and that will expose the rest of the machine.
Once the cover is removed, you will have to remove the flat cover with 6 allen
head screws to allow access to the fuses which are located behind the voltage
selector switch on the inside of the connector panel. The fuses are in clips,
on the inside of the rear panel, just above the AC power connector under a
plastic shield.
     This ends section 5.

                      Section 6 Factory Defaults
     Here is a list of the factory defaults for the Braille Blazer.
     For Speech Configuration:
Serial Port Active.
Full Numbers.
Some Punctuation.
Voice Inflection On.
     For Printer Configuration:
Port parallel Active.
Left Margin 0.
Right Margin 34.
Top Margin 0.
Bottom Margin 0.
Lines Per Page 25.
Page Length 11.
Word-wrap On.
Paper Weight Heavy.
Character Set U.S. ASCII.
Paper Out Detector On.
Auto-linefeed Off.
Print Control Characters Off.
Braille 6 Dot.
     For serial Port Configuration:
BAUD Rate 9600.
Bits Per Character 8.
Stop Bits 1.
Parity None.
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