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If theerrorwasminor,printingwillresume. If theerrorwasmore
serious,the panelwillprovideinformationon how to handleit.
Reset - To clear the printer memory and restore settings to
emulationdefaults,press [RESET].
Beforeyoubeginprinting, a tanytime,butespecially whenyouarenew
totheprocess,itisa goodideatorunatestorsampleprint. To do this,
taketheprinterOffLine.Thenpressandhold[TEST]untilthedisplay
reads Status Sheet. The printer will provide a series of 4 sheets
showing.
its configuration
"the qualityof its textprinting,and
asummaryofitssettings—curren~initial,power-up,andfactory
pre-set
CONNECTING THE
PRINTER TO THE COMPUTER
TheStarLaserPrinter 8 comesequippedwithbotha standardCentron-
ics parallel interfaceand an RS-232 serial interface. Both can be
connectedtocomputers, t houghonlyonecanbe activeatanyonetime.
Theprintercomesfromthefactorypre-setwiththeCentronics parallel
interfaceactive. You can confii this by lookingat the Interface
Groupportionof the sampleprint(Fig.4-2):
Feeder
Cassette
Paper
Size
Letter
Auto
Perametere
Emu L.
Dfl
t
On
Emul.
Df lt
On
Auto CR
Auto CR Off
Auto CR Off
Auto LF
Auto LF Off
Auto LF Off
Auto FF
Auto FF Off
Auto FF Off
Auto Wrap
Auto Urap Off
Auto
Urap
Off
INTERFACE GROUP:
Interface
Type
PARALLEL IBM
PARALLEL IBM
Ser i a 1 Parameters:
Baud Rate
9600 baud
9600 baud
Oata Bits
8
8
Parity
None
None
Stop Bits
1
1
Protocol
XON/XOFF
XON/XOFF
Fig.4-2
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