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