Selectype Functions; Microadjustment; Panel Operational Power On; Figure L-7. Control Panel - Epson LX-1050+ Service Manual

LX-105O+ Service Manual
1.4.2
selection of Draft, Roman, or Saris Serif fonts and selection of normal printing or condensed
printing modes. SelecType is effective only when the printer is ON LINE and not printing.
To select Roman or Saris Serif, press the NLQ button. A buzzer sounds when the NLQ button is
pressed. When it sounds twice, the Roman font is selected. When it sounds three times, the Saris
Serif font is selected.
To select the Draft font, press the DRAFT button. The buzzer will sound once, indicating that the
To set for condensed printing when the printer is in the print mode, press the CONDENSED button
once (the buzzer will sound once), and the printer will enter the condensed print mode.
To cancel condensed printing, press the CONDENSED button again. After you press the button,
the buzzer sounds twice to tell you that condensed printing is canceled.
1.4.3 Micro Adjustment
By pressing the FORM FEED or LINE FEED buttons immediately after loading paper or when
using the tear-off feature, you can make tine adjustment to the loading and tear-off positions.
1.4.4 Panel Operation
The following functions can be activated at power on by holding down the specified button on the
control panel.
To begin printing the self-test in the Draft mode, turn the printer ON while
Self-test mode:
pressing the LINE-FEED button. To begin printing the self-test using the
turn the printer power ON.
Self-test printing can be stopped or started by pressing ON-LINE (ON-LINE
indicator is not lit). To finish the self-test, stop the printing by pressing the
ON-LINE switch then turn OFF the printer power.
The firmware revision number is printed as the first line of the self-test, and
subsequently, current DIP switch settings are printed.
The printer enters the HEX-DUMP mode when it is powered on while the
Hex Dump mode:
LINE-FEED and FORM-FEED buttons are pressed down.
In the HEX-DUMP mode, the hexadecimal representation of the input data is
printed out, along with corresponding ASCII characters. This function is
valuable for checking the data the printer has received from the host. If input
data is a control code rather than a character code, a period (.) is printed in
the ASCII column.
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at Power ON
General Description
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