SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
Several additional functions can be achieved by pressing the control panel buttons in combinations.
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If you are using cut forms, this operation ejects the current page. If you are using fanfold forms, it feeds to the top of the next page.
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Press the 1 ON LINE 1 button to set the printer off-line.
Press the \ PAPERFEED] button and hold it down. The printer will start performing successive line feeds.
While holding the I PAPERFEED] button down, press the I ON LINE
1 button, then release both buttons at the same time. The printer will smoothly eject the current page.
Top of form
When you power on the printer, the top-of-form position is automatically set to the current position. If this is not where you want the top of the page to be, you can change the top-of-form position as follows:
1. Press the [ ON LINE ] button to set the printer off-line.
2. Move the paper to the desired top-of-form position by pressing the
I PAPERFEEDI button, or by performing a forward or reverse micro-feed.
3. Press and hold the [ ON LINE ] button.
4. While holding the 1 ON LINE ] button down, press the E133Xilbutton, then release both buttons at the same time. The ‘-––” message will show on the LCD display, that the top-of-form position has been set.
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Forward micro-feed
For fine alignment, you can feed the paper forward in very small increments as follows:
1. Press the I ON LINE ] button to set the printer off-line.
2. Press the [ ON LINE I button again and hold it down.
3. While holding the I
ON LINE 1 button down, press the I PAPERFEED] button. The paper will start advancing in a series of small steps.
When you want to stop, release both buttons.
Reverse micro-feed
You can also feed the paper in small increments in reverse, to return to a higher position on the same page.
1. Press the I ON LINE I button to set the printer off-line.
2. Press the I ON LINE I button again and hold it down.
3. While holding the 1 ON LINE I button down, press the I EJECT/PARK button. The paper will start moving backwards in a series of small steps.
When you want to stop, release both buttons.
NOTE: Open the bail lever when the printer beeps intermittently and the
“Er” message shows on the LCD display near the edge of the
Changing the auto loading position
Normally, the printer automatically ’loads the paper one line from the top edge. If you want to change this value, follow this procedure:
1. Load the paper by moving bail lever toward the front of the printer.
2. Change the print position using the micro feed function.
The value on the LCD display shows the micro-feed value from the default position.
3. After you get the desired position, press the I ON LINE 1 button to save the value.
This position will remain unless you power off the printer. If you want to retain this position even after you turn off the power, store it using the Macro
Definition function, which is described later.
Note that you can only change this value immediately after loading paper. If you feed paper, you cannot change the auto loading value.
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Clearing the buffer/All reset
The printer stores received data in a large memory buffer. This creates a problem when you want to abandon a printingjob and restart: the printermtiy beholding more data in itsbufferthan it has actuallyprinted. and this unprinted data must be cleared out before restarting. Turning power off is one way to clear the buffer, but there is another way:
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Halt the printing program on the computer. If printing stops immediately, the buffer is clear and the rest of this procedure is unnecessary. If printing does not stop. continue as follows:
Press the I ON LINE I button to set the printer off-line. Printing will now stop. but there may be data remaining in the buffer.
Press and hold the I ON LINE 1button.
While pressingthe I ON LINE Ibuttondown, pressandholdthe 1
FONT I button. Continue holding these two buttons down, you will hear a beep tone and the ‘-bC’- message appears on the LCD display. If you hold these buttons down longer. you will hear three beep tones and the printer has been initialized to the power-on default settings.
Release these buttons, make any necessary control panel settings, then set the printer back on-line.
It is essential to stop the printing program on the computer before you go offline. Otherwise, when you go back on-line the computer will start sending data again and the printer will continue printing. with missing data from when the buffer was cleared.
Save Macro Definition
You can save the current settings to the printer for later use with the following procedure:
Press the [ ON LINE ] button to set the printer off-line.
Press the = button and hold it down.
While holding the EZ12NlZbutton down, press the ERTCHlbutton and hold them down untilthe 6’MACRO’’messageappearson the LCDdisplay.
Release both buttons at the same time after this message appears on the
LCD display to save the current setting.
If you release these buttons after the “MACRO” message has gone out on the display, the macro has been cleared.
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NOTE: You can store the following settings with this procedure.
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Current Font
Current pitch
Current auto-loading amount for cut forms
Current auto-loading amount for fanfold forms
Current auto-loading amount in ASF mode
Data to be stored are controlled in Standard mode and IBM mode separately.
For example, the data stored in the Standard mode are not effective in the
IBM mode, and vice versa.
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