Special Mode; Chapter 4 Special Mode; Special Mode Functions - Dascom 1500 User Manual

Your Printer has two operation modes:
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The Normal mode is used for daily operations like paper handling and printing as ex-
plained in Chapter 2, "Operating the printer" and Chapter 3, "Printing".
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The Special mode is used to change the printer settings and to test the printer functions.
The following table summarizes the purpose of each function.

Special Mode Functions

Function
Set-Up Mode
Print Configuration
Printing Test
Hex Dump Mode
Printing Alignment Adjustment
Top of Form Adjustment
Setting of The First Dot Posi-
tion on the left side
Menu Access
Setting Set-Up Mode to Default
Value (Standard)

Special mode

Purpose
Change the Printer settings.
Print the Printer Configuration. To check your settings
by printing a list of all the printer's currently selected
values.
Run the printing test.
Hex-dump allows you to determine whether the com-
puter is sending the correct commands to the printer.
This is useful for troubleshooting.
Perform adjustment Bi-directional alignment.
Perform adjustment of Top of Form.
Change the left margin fine adjustment.
Restricts access to Set-Up functions from the control
panel.
Resets factory settings to standard.
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