Controlling The Page - Star Micronics 4111 Applications Manual

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2.3 CONTROLLING
In this section we look at two controls you have over how the Star
LaserPrinter 4111 handles and formats its pages: You can set values for the
PAPER FEED and LAYOUT parameters on the control panel. At the end of
this section we'll also preview different ways to move the print position.
2.3.1 The PAPER FEED parameter
The PAPER FEED parameter lets you specify both what kind of paper you
want and how the paper is fed.
One convenient thing about a laser printer is that it doesn't need continuous
forms, sometimes called ~bnfbki paper. Other printers feed in a stack of
forms — with pages alljoined by perforations — by having sprockets engage
and pull along pinfeed holes punched along each side of the paper. After it's
printed you have to tear off the pinfeed-hole strips and then separate the
pages,
With the Star LaserPrinter 4111you can print on a variety of ordinary cut
sheet pages.
For the Feeder value of this PAPER FEED parameter, you first enter either
multi-purpose tray, manual feed or cassette (option) to indicate where you
want paper fed from. The multi-purpose tray handles various types and sizes
of paper (Letter, Legal, A4, B5, Executive, OHP sheets, Labels, Envelopes).
Manual feed means you feed each sheet by hand from the multi-purpose tray.
The cassette tray automatically feeds single sheets, much like sheet feeders
on other types of printers.
The default paper size is A4, you can specify other sizestoo. A different-sizes
tray automatically selects that different paper size,
8.5 by 11 inch letter-size paper
8.5 by 14 inch legal-size paper
B5 international (used in every country except North America)
(182 by 257 mm)
the narrower "executive" size (7.25 by 10.5 inches)
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