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1.
Press the On Line switch to set the minter
off-line.
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2.
Press the On Line switch again andhold
it down.
3.
Press the Print Pitch switch. The paper will start moving
backwards
in
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a series of small steps.
When you want to stop, release
both switches.
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Left
margin:
NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
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Software
almost always provides
commands
for controlling
the margins,
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so you will not usually
have
to set them
from
the control
panel.
When
necessary,
however,
you can set the left margin
as follows.
1.
Press the On Line switch to set the printer
off-line.
2.
Press the NLQ Type Style switch and hold it down.
3.
Press the Print Pitch switch. The print head will make a short excursion
from the left end, then start advancing
from left to right in a series of
steps, each equal
to one pica character
width
(l/10").
When
the print
head
reaches
the desired
left margin
position,
release
both
switches.
The printer
will beep to indicate
that the margin
has been set.
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Right
margin:
NLQ Type Style and Paper
Feed switches
You can also set the right margin.
1.
Press the On Line switch to set the printer
off-line.
2.
Press the NLQ
Type Style switch and hold it down.
3.
Press the Paper
Feed switch. The print head will travel to the right end
of the carriage,
then start advancing
from right to left in a series of 1 /lo"
steps. When
it reaches
the desired
right margin
position,
release
both
switches.
The printer
will beep to indicate
that the margin
has been set.
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the
buffer:
Print Pitch, On Line and Paper
Feed switches
When DIP switch 2-1 is ON, the printer
stores received
data in a large
memory
buffer. This creates a problem
when you want to abandon
a printing
job and restart:
the printer
may be holding
much more
data in its buffer
than it has actually
printed,
and this unprinted
data must be cleared
out
before restarting.
Turning
power off is one way to clear the buffer, but there
is another
way:
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1.
Halt
the printing
program
on the computer.
If printing
stops imme-
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diately,
the buffer is clear and the rest of this procedure
is unnecessary.
If printing
does not stop, continue
as follows:
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2.
Press the On Line switch to set the printer
off-line.
Printing
will now
stop, but there may be data remaining
in the buffer.
3.
Press the Print Pitch switch and hold it down.
4.
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Press the On Line switch and hold it down.
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