3.2.2 Setting And Clearing Vertical Tabs; Menu Mode; Open The Printhead Door; Normal Mode - Texas Instruments 880 User Manual

3.2.1 Setting Form Length and Top of Form
Use the following procedure to enter the command
mode and set the form length from the control
panel:
1. Open the printhead door (Rgure
~-3).
2. Press the Line Feed key and (if neces-
sary) the Form Align key to position the
paper so that the printhead is where you
want the first line of the form to be
printed.
3. Press the Command key. The Normal
indicator turns off and the Command indi-
cator turns on.
4. Press the Set Top of Form key.
5. Press the Line Feed key to position the
paper so that the printhead is where you
want the first line of the next form to be
printed.
6. Press the Set Top of Form key.
7. Return to normal mode by pressing the
Normal key.
8. Check the new form length by pressing the
Form Feed key.
NOTE
Returning to normal mode in the middle
of the setting-form-Iength sequence will
cause the printer to retain its previous
form length and the Error indicator to
blink. Press the Reset key to turn off
the Error indicator.
By omitting steps 5 and 6 of the "Setting Form
Length" procedure, you can move the top of form
to the present line without changing form length.
3.2.2 Setting and Clearing Vertical Tabs
Use the following procedure to enter the command
mode and set or clear vertical tabs from the control
panel.
1. Open the printhead door.
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2. Press the Command key. The Normal
indicator turns off, and the Command
indicator turns on.
3. Press the Line Feed .key to position the
paper for the desired tab position, or press
the Tab key to move to the tab that is to be
removed.
4. Press the Tab Set key to set a tab at the
present line, or press the Tab Clear key to
clear the tab at the present line.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as needed.
6. Press the Normal key
to
return to the
normal mode.
7. Press the Form Feed key to move to the
top of form position.
8. Press the Command key to return to the
command mode.
9. Press the Tab key to see if the new tab has
been set or the old tab cleared.
10. Press the Normal key to return to the
normal mode.
3.3 MENU MODE
The following functions can be performed from the
control panel while in the menu mode.
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Changing font
Changing characters-per-inch (cpi)
Changing lines-per-inch (lpi)
Selecting the perforation-skip (PERFSKIP)
feature
Checking host-software-controlled margins
Printing the configuration report and menu
Printing the character set report and menu
Entering the test mode and printing. the
status report
Returning to the normal mode