Star Micronics LC24-20 User Manual page 191

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CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
The control
panel buttons
can be pressed
mdlwdually
to perform
the opefatlons
!nd$cated by their names.
LCD DISPLAY — shows the ,nfornmt,on of
EJECTIPARK
SUTTON — Pressing th,s
display When In Q.,etnmde wlm the QUIET'
!he p,,nte, status.
button parks the fanfold farms m ejects the
message, the Printer w,II Pr,nt ,1,ghfly slower
FON'T BUTTON — selects the font to be
c.t sheet paper
but at a reduced no,se level
Printed T..han9ethefo.t
setthepr,nteroff -
PAPER FEED BUTFON — II you press th,s
ON LINE BUTTON-sets
the p,,nter on.l,ne
1, ",, then press the FONT button repeatedly
bulfon wh,le off-l,.., the paper Will feed for-
andotlllne
Thestatuschanges
each time you
.nth the message. .
the d,splay (all. m ,nates
ward. If you hold the button dawn, the pmt.,
press the button.
PITCH SUTTON — .llOWS y.. to select the
VA petiorm consec.tlve hne feeds
P,intl.9 Plt.h
Remember thaf the prlnier
If you press th,s button while .nl,ne
th,s WIII
m"St be off-l,., foryo" to do th,s.
alternately flash fhe'QUIET' message o"the
POWER-UP
FuNCTlONs
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The control
panel buttons
have special
functions
that operate
f you hold them down while swltch[ng
power on.
SELF.TEST
If the pr,nter ,s turned on wh,ks the ON LINE
button ,s pressed, the printer w,II enter the
shofi self-test mode. wth the PI
message
on thed,splay.
If the pr,nter ,s turned on wh,(e the PAPER
FEED button $spressed, thepr,nter w,lfenter
the long self-test mode, w,th the P2' me..
sage o" the d,sPlay
PRINT AREA TEST
By hofd,ng the EJECTIPARK
butt."
down
d.r,ng power-up, the pr,nter Will emer the
pr,nt area test mode. w,th the P3
~e,,age
on the d,sp(ay Th,s way. you can f,nd how
ma"y l,nes on your paper are cwa,lable for
pr,ntmg.
PITCH LOCK
By hold,ng the PITCH button down d.r,ng
power-up. theprlntp(tchcan only deselected
from the control panel Th,s p,e"..l$
s. ft-
wme ,nterferen.e You will hear..
acknowl-
mw
11111
Font
I%k
edg, ngbeep andthepr, nterw,ll show the P-
LOCK
message 0" the d,splay as Pow,,
comes..
FONT LOCK
Byhold,ngthe FONT b.tton d.r,ngpmver..p
fonts can only be selected from the control
panel. Thm prevents software ,nterferen.e
P,tch
Pr(nt area
Long
Shml
lock
test
test
test
Them w,II be an a.knowledg,,lg beep and F-
LOCK message 0" the d,splay
HEXADECIMAL DUMP
In thm mode, a(ldata rece,vedw,ll beprlnted ,n
a hexade., rnal dump format rather than the
control codes be,ng acted on as command
codes
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS ~
Several
addlt[ona(
funct[ons
can be obtained
by pres.mg
the control
panel buttons
wtth the of f-hne
state
FORM FEED
It you are .s,ng cut forms, th,s operation
elects the current page
If you are .smg
fanfold forms, (t feeds to the top of the flext
P.9e
TOP OF FQRM
When you Power on the pr,nter, the top-of-
form pos,tio" IS autmnattcally Setto the cur.
rempos,t, on If!h, sis notwhereyo.
wa"tthe
topofthepage
to be, yo. can change lhetop
of-form past,...
MICRO-FEED
For f,ne al,gmnent, y.. can fed
the paper
e,ther forward or reverse ,. V.V small mere.
ments
BUFFER CLEARfALL RESET
Tum,ng power off IS orw way to clea, the
buffer, but there ,s another way
$le$s and hold the ON LINE and FONT
button m off-l,ne The bC" message shows
on d,splq s,gnallng that the buffer has bee.
TOPof form
I
Reverse micro-feed
I
I
Save macro
Form feed
Bufler clearlAll reset
I
cleared lfyo. hold these b.ttons more thwe
~ SAVE MACRO
seconds, you WIIIhear fhree beep tones and
You canstore thecurrentsetl,ngs tothepr,"te,
the printer Wllf be ,nmalz'ed to the power...
for later use w,th the FONT butt..
and tho
default sett,ngs
PITCH button comb, nat,ons
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