Service manual

Changing the auto loading position

Normally, the printer automatically loads the paper to the desired position

according to the setting of EDS switch B-5.

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.

3. After you get the desired position, press the ON LINE 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.

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 printing job and restart: the printer

may be holding more data in its buffer than it has actually printed, 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:

1. 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:

2. Press the ON LINE button to set the printer off-line. Printing will now

stop, but there may be data remaining in the buffer.

3. Press and hold the FONT button.

4. While pressing the FONT button down, press and hold the ON LINE button.

Continue holding these two buttons down, you will hear a beep tone that the

buffer is cleared. 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.

5. 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 off-

line. 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.