Service manual

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C hapter 4
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
The control panel buttons can be pressed individually to perform the operations
indicated by their names. Other functions can be achieved by holding these
buttons down when you turn the printer’s power on, or by pressing the control
panel buttons in combination.
This chapter explains all the button and indicator functions.
• Pause printing
• Feed paper (fast and slow, forward and reverse)
• Park fanfold forms
• Set the top-of-form position
• Select the print pitch
• Select a font
• Print test patterns
• Prevent software from changing the panel pitch and font selections
• Adjusting the print alignment for bi-directional printing
• Print a hexadecimal dump
• Clear the printer’s buffer
• Save macro definition
BUTTON AND INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
The printer is equipped with four buttons on the control panel. From left to
right they are FONT, PITCH, PAPER FEED and ON LINE.
The following is a brief guide to the buttons and indicators on the control
panel.
Figure 4-1. Control panel.