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Inputting Text
Selecting Japanese or Chinese Input
With this printer, you can input text either by pressing character
keys or by writing on the handwriting panel.
You can input either Japanese or Chinese text. The initial
default setting after you turn on the printer is Japanese text
input.
Switching between Japanese and Chinese Input
Japanese input enabled.
Press
Chinese input enabled.
Inputting Alpha Characters, Symbols, and Pictographs
To input alpha characters
Example: AKI
1
Press
as many times as necessary until
is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.
a: Lower case alpha character input
A: Upper case alpha character input
2
Press the following keys:
In the case of alpha character input, characters are accepted
as soon as you press a key.
•
Inputting a Japanese comma ( ) or period ( ), or an alpha
character comma ( ,) or period (.)
Input
Mode
[
]
Symbol
To input symbols marked on key caps
2
1
1
Pressing
inputs a colon (:).
2
Pressing
then
inputs an asterisk (
To input other symbols
Example:
(Group:
)
1
Press
and then
.
Symbol group name
2
Use
,
,
,and
to select
press
.
3
Use
,
,
,and
to select
•
In step 1, the handwriting panel will show the symbol that
was displayed the last time you used symbol input. You can
input the symbol you want by touching it.
To input pictographs
Example:
(Group:
)
1
Press
and then
.
Pictograph group name
2
Use
,
,
,and
to select
.
3
Use
,
,
,and
to select
•
In step 1, the handwriting panel will show the pictograph that
was displayed the last time you used pictograph input. You
can input the pictograph you want by touching it.
Inputting Chinese Text
This section explains how to input Chinese text.
The initial default setting after you turn on the printer is
Japanese text input.
You can input Chinese text using either of two different
methods.
•
Inputting pinyin on the printer keyboard
•
Inputting with the handwriting panel
•
For information on Japanese text input, see the KL-T100
.
Chinese Text Input Rules
When using the keyboard for input, type alpha character to
enter pinyin.
•
To input ü , press [v].
After phonetic input using alpha characters, press one of the
keys shown below to specify a tone or the neutral tone, which
will narrow down the list of Chinese language candidates.
Tone
1
2
3
or A
4
Neutral
•
The tone symbols (
.
the printer's keyboard keys.
•
The four tone and neutral tone symbols also can be entered on
the handwriting panel.
Alpha character pinyin can be converted to kanji characters.
When the kanji you want to input is displayed, press
accept it.
[a] or [A]
Inputting Pinyin
Use the following procedure to input Chinese text using pinyiin.
Example: 规划
1
Press
displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.
2
Input
•
In the pinyin input mode, the
handwriting panel will appear as
shown nearby.
3
Press
This will narrow down the kanji candidates to those with Tone 1.
•
Instead of pressing
handwriting panel.
4
Press
displayed.
5
Press
This accepts 规 .
6
).
Input
7
Press
This will narrow down the kanji candidates to those with Tone 2.
8
Press
displayed.
9
Press
This accepts 划 .
•
Chinese text also can be input without specifying the four
tones or neutral tone.
Inputting and Converting Individual Kanji
and then
Characters
You can use the following procedure to convert kanji characters
and then press
.
one-by-one.
Example: 规划
1
Press
displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.
2
Input
3
Press
4
Use
,
5
Press
This accepts 规 .
6
Repeat steps 2 through 5 to input and convert the
second character.
and then press
•
Numerals and symbols input during Chinese input are entered in
accordance with the
setting.
and then press
.
•
The Song font
results in characters that are narrower compared to Japanese
kanji, alpha characters, numerals, and other characters. Because
of this, mixing Chinese with other languages may result in
balance problems.
Symbol
Key
) are not actually marked on
as many times as necessary until
.
.
, you could touch
on the
as many times as necessary until 规 is
.
.
.
as many times as necessary until 划 is
.
as many times as necessary until
.
.
to highlight 规 .
,
,and
.
setting or
is always used for Chinese. This font
Inputting Text on the Handwriting Panel
You can input text using the printer's handwriting panel. The
handwriting panel lets you directly input kanji characters that
cannot be input using the keyboard.
Use the touch pen that comes with the printer to write on the
handwriting panel.
•
Excessive force is not required for touch operations.
The handwriting panel supports input of the following types
of characters.
•
Japanese kanji
•
Japanese hiragana and katakana
•
Chinese kanji
•
Alpha characters (A to Z, a to z)
•
Numerals (0 to 9)
•
Long vowel mark
•
Some symbols (
Recognizes and input written
text
Handwriting panel
Write text here with the touch pen.
When handwritten input is enabled
Cells for writing characters appear on the handwriting panel to
indicate that handwritten input is enabled.
to
Characters that are recognized for handwritten input depends
on the function you are using and the input mode.
Current input
mode
is
Indicator
[
] [
Japanese kanji
Hiragana
Katakana
Chinese kanji
Alpha characters
(lower case)
Alpha characters
(upper case)
Numerals
Long vowel mark
Some symbols
* Enabled for some functions only.
Handwritten Input Basics
Cells for writing characters appear on the handwriting panel to
indicate that handwritten input is enabled. You can use all of
the cells to write successive characters.
1
On the handwriting panel, write the character you want
in an empty cell.
•
You can write characters in any
sequence in any cell. Characters
are recognized in the sequence
they are written, regardless of
which cells are used.
•
To clear the written characters, touch
2
Next, write another character in an empty cell on the
is
handwriting panel.
•
When you start to write a character,
the fi rst character you wrote is
recognized and input.
3
Write the next character in an empty cell.
•
This causes the second character to be recognized and
input.
4
Continue writing characters in the cells until you input
all of the text you want. After you are fi nished, touch
on the handwriting panel.
•
You also can touch
input one character at a time to ensure correct input.
•
When inputting a two-digit number, write each digit in a separate
cell.
•
You also can confi gure the printer so it automatically attempts to
recognize what you wrote if you do not perform any operation for
about one second after writing a character in a cell.
•
Inputting more than fi ve characters will cause characters to scroll
off of the handwriting panel. When this happens, you can touch
the handwriting panel
and
•
Pressing any of the printer's keys during handwriting input
will cause any displayed characters that have not yet been
recognized to be cleared.
)
Touch pen
[
]
[
]
[
] [ 1 ]
]
[
]
.
after each character if you want to
keys to scroll left and right.
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