Online And Offline Modes - SATO DR308e Operator's Manual

3.3 ONLINE AND OFFLINE MODES

The general and basic operation of the DR308e is via the Normal mode, which consists of the ONLINE and
OFFLINE modes.
3.3.1 Online Mode
Pressing the LINE button causes the printer to go ONLINE or OFFLINE
alternately.
When the printer is ONLINE, the following activities will be possible:
• The printer is ready to receive print data from the computer or other con-
nected devices
• The printer is ready to start printing
The number displayed on the bottom line of LCD panel shows the media
quantity status. As soon as a print job is received, the display will indicate the
number of labels to be printed. When the label job begins to print, the display
will indicate the remaining number of labels to be printed.
When an asterik mark appears beside ONLINE, it indicates that the KEYPAD
PORT is set to ON. See Section 3.7.2 Enabling optional connected
Keypad on page 3-14 for details.
When a Plus sign appears beside ONLINE, it indicates that the printer is HEX
DUMP printing the data from Host computer. See Section 3.9 Hex Dump
Mode on page 3-22 for details.
3.3.2 Offline Mode
When the printer is ONLINE, pressing the LINE button once will cause the
printer to go OFFLINE.
When the printer is OFFLINE, the activities for ONLINE mode are no longer
possible, but the following activities will be possible:
• The printer can feed an empty label when you press the FEED button.
• The printer can be switched to other modes when you press the FEED
button while pressing the LINE button.
• Any printing job can be PAUSED once the printer is brought OFFLINE
3.3.3 Print Cancel Mode
1.
When the printer is OFFLINE, pressing both the LINE and FEED but-
tons at the same time will switch the printer to Print Cancel mode. The
menu for canceling the print job then appears.
2.
Press LINE button to switch between the selection, YES or NO. The
underline on display indicates the selected option. The default setting
is NO.
If the printer has a print job in memory, selecting YES will cause the job
to be cleared.
NOTE:
Be sure you want to cancel the print job before selecting yes as the job
cannot be recovered and will have to re-transmit to the printer.
3.
Press FEED button to activate the selection.
If YES is selected, the message "CANCEL COMPLETE" will display
with 3 beep sound and then return to OFFLINE mode. All the print jobs
were cleared from memory.
DR308e Operator's Manual
Section 3: Operation and Configuration
Media quantity status
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