Star Micronics LC24-30 Colour User Manual page 5

Chapter 4 - Printer reference
Introduction .............................................................................
33
Using the control panel.. ........................................................ 34
Making Electronic DIP Switch settings ................................ 37
Selecting
which emulation to use ........................................ 46
Connecting the printer to your computer.. .......................... 47
Choosing which type of cable to use.. ......................................... .47
Setting up the printer with a Windows
computer ..................... .47
Setting up the printer with an MS-DOS computer
.................... .48
Setting up the printer with a Macintosh.. ................................... .49
Using fonts and varying the appearance
of text.. ............... 50
Introduction
to fonts and typefaces.. ........................................... .50
Pitch.. ..................................................................................................
.51
Weight.. ..............................................................................................
.51
Bitmap fonts ......................................................................................
.51
Scalable fonts ....................................................................................
.52
In Windows .....................................................................................
.52
installing TrueType fonts.. ................................................................ .52
Selecting different fonts ................................................................... .53
In MS-DOS
......................................................................................
.53
Selecting different fonts.. ................................................................. .53
Changing the character pitch.. .........................................................
.53
Preventing software font selection ................................................. .54
Using different types of paper ...............................................
55
Useful printing features ......................................................... 57
Portrait and landscape printing .................................................... .57
Face-up and face-down
printing.. .................................................
.57
Manual by-pass ..............................................................................
.57
Pausing printing .............................................................................
.58
Parking fanfold paper ....................................................................
.58
The tear-off function ......................................................................
.58
Controlling the paper position ..............................................
59
Paper feed .......................................................................................
.59
Form feed ........................................................................................
.59
Forward micro feed .......................................................................
.59
Reverse micro feed ........................................................................
.60
Setting the auto load position.. ....................................................
.60
Selecting Zoom mode print size.. ......................................... 61
Selecting Quiet mode.. ...........................................................
61
Saving current settings (the Macro feature). .......................
62
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