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ActionPrinter 2250
The Control Panel
You can control basic printer operations - line feeding, form
feeding, paper loading and ejecting, and font
buttons on the control panel. The indicator lights show the printer
status.
FONT lights
Light 1 Light 2
Lights
The panel lights provide information on certain printer conditions
and
settings.
READY light
light is on when the printer is ready to receive data from
The READY
the computer. It flashes briefly each time you turn on the printer.
light also flashes under the following conditions:
The READY
.
The printer is out of paper.
The printer is in the tear-off mode (when the push tractor is
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installed.)
When an error occurs, the
READY
lights
FONT
The
lights indicate the current font setting. These lights change
FONT
when you press the
button. Look at the font menu on the
FONT
control panel to see which font is selected.
The
lights (Light 1 and Light 2) also indicate your selection in
FONT
the default-setting mode.
Buttons
The two buttons on the control panel perform different functions
depending on the printer mode.
button
FONT
Press the
button during normal operation to cycle through the
FONT
font choices on the font menu. The two
selections.
Hold down the
button while you turn on the printer to enter
FONT
the default-setting mode. When you are in the default-setting mode,
use this button to make your selection.
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- with the
selection
READY
light
FONT button
LF/FF button
light goes off.
lights indicate current
FONT
button
LF/FF
Press the
button during normal operation to feed paper line by
LF/FF
line. Hold down the
LF/FF
advance continuous paper to the next top-of-form. You can also
press the
button to eject a page.
LF/FF
When you are in the default-setting mode, use this button to change
the default settings.
PAPER PARK
If you are using continuous paper, you can press the
buttons at the same time to move the paper back to the paper-park
position.
CAUTION: Never feed labels backward; they may peel
!
off their backing sheet and damage the printer. Use the
button to feed them forward.
LF/FF
Other control-panel features
The control panel also gives you access to two special features:
The self test lets you check whether your printer is
Self Test
operating properly.
The data dump allows advanced users to pinpoint
Data dump
communications problems between the printer and
computer. Hold down the
while turning on the printer to enter data dump
mode. The printer prints the exact codes (in
hexadecimal format) reaching it from the
computer.
Selecting character fonts
To choose one of the fonts available with your printer, press the
FONT button.
The two
lights come on (a) and go off (0) to indicate the
FONT
current selection. The table below lists the fonts and shows how the
appear for each selection.
FONT lights
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button to load a single sheet of paper or to
LF/FF
and
LFlFF
FONT
FONT
O-Pin Printers
and
FONT
buttons
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