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Then, following the A> prompt, type CONFIG (return).
Answer the first
question by choosing the appropriate printer option.
(IMPORTANT: If you are
using the Sprint 3 or MP, select the System Printer option.)
After selecting a printer option, go through the rest of the configuration
without selecting any of the special options.
The fastest way to do this is to
depress the RETURN key after the next two questions,
and
then to depress Y when
you are asked whether to make the configuration permanent.
Note: if you wish
to understand more of what can be done with CONFIG, read section 3.7 of the
CP/M 2 Introductory Manual.
If
you get an error message regarding the disk system, reIOClunt the diskette
in the drive,
and
while you are at it, make sure there is no write-protect tab
on the diskette.
(This tab is a piece of metallized tape over the cutout on
the right edge of the diskette, described in Section 2.6 of the CP/2
Introductory Manual.)
Then try the CONFIG procedure again.
4.2 Testing a printer
1) The best way to test the printer is to print several pages of material on
it.
To
do this, first turn the printer on and load continuous fan-fold paper
having II-inch page length.
If the printer is wide enough, use standard
14-inch wide fan-fold paper.
If you are using a printer having an add-on
form-feed tractor (such as the Vector Sprint 3), and if you are not familiar
with it, do not try to use the form-feed tractor mechanism (which usually canes
in a separate carton) at this time.
Simply roll the paper up, as you would
with an ordinary typewriter.
IVJake sure that the paper is loaded so that the
print-head, when at the left edge of the printer, lines up just to the right of
the sprocket holes on the left edge of the paper.
Make sure the ribbon and
printwheel (if any) are in place, and that the cover is on.
If the printer has
a character spacing switch on its front, set it for 12 characters per inch.
(Sprint 3 has no such switch.)
Then, following the A> prompt type PIP
LST:=DUMP.PRN (return).
The computer will read this sample file from the
diskette and then print it out.
It will use up 5 sheets of paper.
Make sure that the printer spaces down to
the top of each new sheet.
(t\1ote that it should do this, even though you did
not specify the Automatic Paging option in the CON"FIG routine.
This is because
the form-feed commands are within
G~e D~1P.~J
text.)
Make sure that each line
is even along
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the left margin and b'1at the characters in the line are level and
evenly spaced.
No lines should print past the right margin, even if the
printer is set for lO-characters per inch.
Make sure that the characters are
printed completely and evenly.
(If
they are not, it is probably because the
printwheel or the ribbon is not loaded properly).
2) If the printer carre with an add-on form-feed tractor, you may put it on the
printer now.
Wi th the Sprint 3, or
QJ.me
Sprint 5 printers, you must reIOClv-e the top cover
of the printer and snap the tractor mechanism over the platen axle, so that its
gear meshes with the platen gear.
To
open the rretal fingers which snap over
4-2
Rev.
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