Chapter 3. Setting Up Another Forms Path; Summarizing Forms Path Set Up - IBM 4247 A00 User Manual

Chapter 3. Setting Up Another Forms Path

Summarizing Forms Path Set Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Changing to a Different Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Preparing Printer for Selected Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting Up and Configuring Front Push Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Setting Up Rear Push Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Setting Up Dual Push Forms Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Setting Up Rear Pull Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting Up Push Pull Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Summarizing Forms Path Set Up

Table 5 summarizes the settings for all forms paths. See Figure 18 on page 41 to
help you understand the numbers used in Table 5. The remainder of this chapter
describes the settings for all the forms paths except for the Front Push and Manual
Sheet Feed which you read about in "Chapter 1. Printer Setup" on page 1.
Table 5. Review of Forms Paths Settings
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Identifying Existing Forms Path
Identifying New Forms Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing Existing Forms Tractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing Front Forms Tractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing Rear Forms Tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Setting Forms Guide Deflector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting Push-Pull Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Removing or Installing Paper Bail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Removing Paper Bail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing Paper Bail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting Forms Tractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Installing Rear Push Tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring Forms Path for Rear Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading Forms For Rear Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Preparing Dual Push Forms Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring Printer for Linking Dual Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Parking One Continuous Form and Loading Another (Dual Push) . . . . . 59
Parking Continuous Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Switching the Forms Path
Installing Rear Pull Tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Configuring Forms Path for Rear Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Loading Forms For Rear Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing Push Pull Tractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Configuring Forms Path for Push Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Loading Forms For Push Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Forms Guide
Forms Path
Deflector
Front Push Open
Rear Push Open
Dual Push Open
Rear Pull Closed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Push-Pull
Paper Bail
Selector
Push Installed
Push Installed
Push Installed
Pull Not installed
Forms Tractor
2
2
Rear, 2
Front, 2
1
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