Amstrad DMP2000 / DMP3000 / DMP4000 Service Manual
The DMP2000 / DMP3000 / DMP4000 Printer Service Manual is Amstrad's combined service manual for three dot-matrix printers, 22 pages, with a text layer and searchable. Its own cover note reads "DMP2000/3000 section only. For DMP4000 see pages 13 onwards."
Contents
[edit | edit source]Amstrad's own contents list, with printed page numbers:
- Safety note — 2
- Technical specifications — 2 (DMP2000 and DMP3000 in parallel columns)
- Interface — 3
- Dipswitch settings — 3
- Control PCBs — 4
- Cabinet drawing — 5
- Printer mechanism — 6; printer mechanism parts list — 7
- Block diagram — 7
- Wiring diagram — 8 & 9
- Circuit diagram — 10 & 11
- Electrical parts list — 12
- DMP4000 — 13–20
What it settles
[edit | edit source]The technical specification prints the DMP2000 and DMP3000 side by side, which is the quickest way to tell two similar machines apart:
- Both are impact dot matrix. DMP2000: 105 cps maximum; DMP3000: 105 cps normal and 52 cps double width.
- DMP2000 printing characteristics 9 × 9 normal, 9 × 10 expanded, 9 × chosen amount for 9-pin bit image, with 96 ASCII characters plus international sets. DMP3000 adds italics and an 8 × chosen amount bit-image mode, with a normal character size of 2.1 mm wide × 2.55 mm high.
- Print sizes are the same on both: standard (pica) 10 cpi / 80 cpl, mini (elite) 12 cpi / 96 cpl, double-width standard 5 cpi / 40 cpl and double-width mini 6 cpi / 48 cpl. Condensed (17 cpi / 137 cpl) and double-width condensed (8.5 cpi / 68 cpl) are listed for the DMP2000 only.
Pages 6–7 carry a printer mechanism parts list, and page 12 an electrical parts list — the component-level sources for these machines.
What this manual does not contain
[edit | edit source]- The DMP4000 section is short. Eight pages (13–20) against twelve for the DMP2000/3000, and the cover note treats it as an appendix rather than an equal section.
- No troubleshooting or fault-symptom tables of the kind the DMP1 manual carries.
- No alignment or adjustment procedures.
- Nothing on the DMP1 or the LQ3500.
The other DMP2000 manual
[edit | edit source]Amstrad DMP2000 Printer Service Manual (standalone) is a genuinely different document — a 12-page, DMP2000-only manual, cover price £5.00, with its own contents including a printer mechanical drawing and parts list at pages 8–9 and a different arrangement of the circuit and wiring diagrams. The two are not duplicates, and between them they are the fullest coverage of the DMP2000 available here.
Download here: Amstrad DMP2000 DMP3000 DMP4000 Service Manual.pdf