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Withthe StarLaserPrinter8 youcan printon a varietyof ordinarycut sheet
pages.
For the Feedervalueof thisPAPERFEEDparameter,youfirst entereither
cassetteor manual feed to indicatewhere you want paper fed from. The
cassettetray automaticallyfeeds singlesheets,muchlike sheet fecdemon
othertypesof printers.Manualfeed meansyou feed each sheetby hand.
The defaultpaper size is 8.5 by 11inch letter-sizepaper; a different-sized
tray automaticallyselectsthat differentpapersize. If you choosemanual
feed you can specifyother sizestoo:
8.5 by 14
inch legal-size paper
A4 international (used in every country except North America)
(210
by
297
mm)
B5
international (used in every country except North America)
(182
by
257
mm)
the narrower "executive"size (7.25 by 10.5inches)
One other nice thing you can do is print directlyon envelopes.With this
Paper Size parameteryou can specify envelopesin sizes #10, Monarch,
EuropeanC5 and DL. Thenjust workout whereto put the address,set the
orientation to landscape (see below), and slide your envelope into the
manualfeed slot. Easy!
Inanyemulationmodeyoucansendyourprintercommandsto changepaper
sizeorfeedin,papermanually; y oucanalsoselectthoseparametersfromthe
panel.Either,way,a messagein the printerdisplaytells the operatorwhat
paper size to use.
Auto parameters
Thepnntposition
referstothepointonthepagewherethenextcharacterwill
be printed.Whenthe printerreachesthe end of a line, the AutoParameters
settingstell it whetheror not to automatically:
returntheprintpositionto theleftmargin
(carriage return,
sometimes
just called "Return"),
or move it down one line (h%e~eed ),
or keep text out of the sidemargin
(auro wrap ),
or keep text out of the bottommargin
(jbrmfeed ).
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