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To take the full advantage of your printer's features, choose
ActionPrinter 3260. If it is not available, select LQ-860 or
LQ-2550 if you plan to use color. If you do not plan to use
color, choose Stylus 800, LQ-570+, ActionPrinter 3250, or
LQ-870.
Note:
For any
the LQ printers be sure to choose Sheet Feeder Bin 1 or
of
the equivalent in the printer setup.
If your software program does not list the ActionPrinter 3260,
you can also contact the manufacturer of your software to see
if an update for your printer is available.
If none of the printers mentioned above is available in your
software program, you can choose LQ-570+ or LQ-570 for
good quality text and graphics but no color support. If those
printers are also not available, choose any Epson printer or
standard printer or draft printer.
Software Tips
Avoiding smudged pages
When you print full resolution graphics (360 x 360 dpi), the
result may have a slightly smudged appearance. If this
occurs, choose 360 x 180 resolution using your application
software.
Printing landscape (horizontal) pages
Dot matrix printers do not have built-in fonts for printing in
landscape. You may use Microsoft Windows or programs
such as Allways or Sideways to do this.
Keeping page breaks in their proper place
There is an area at the top and bottom edges of each sheet
that the printer must use to load and feed the paper. You
cannot print on these portions of the page.
If the margins and page breaks in your document do not take
into account these unprintable areas, you may find that the
printing position is too low on the page or that part of one
page is printed at the top of the next page. Your software
may be set to print on continuous paper or to print too many
lines on a page. To correct this problem, try the following:
Cl Select single sheets or sheet feeder bin 1 in your software.
24-Pin Printers
Using fonts
There are two sources for the fonts you use in your
documents: internal and downloaded. In addition to the
internal fonts built into your printer, many programs can
send their own fonts to the printer in the same way they send
your documents. For instance, Lotus l-2-3 creates and sends
the fonts that it uses to print spreadsheets.
Whether you use internal fonts or fonts downloaded from
software, you will most likely need to select your fonts
through your software.
Fonts and the control panel
Your software sends font commands along with the
document to the printer. If these font
from what you selected on the printer's control panel, the
software commands always override control panel settings.
For this reason, you need to make your font selections
through software.
Use the control panel for font selection only when you are
sending unformatted text to the printer directly from
MS-DOS or when you are using a simple software package
that does not include font selections.
Paper Handling
Printing on Single Sheets
You can load standard-sized single sheets with the paper
cassette and you can load single sheets of paper from
148 mm (5.8 inches) to 257 mm (10.1 inches) wide with the
manual insertion slot.
Tips for using the paper cassette
The tips below help you get the best performance when
printing with the cassette.
printer. When the printer receives the data from the
computer, it loads a single sheet automatically and begins
to print.
the paper cassette and press the FF button to load the
paper.
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