Epson DFX-8500 Printer User Manual


 
Other control panel features
Self test
By holding down the LF/FF Load or
Tear Off button while you turn on the
printer, you can start the printer’s self
test. The self test prints the characters in
the printer’s ROM (Read Only Memory).
See “Printing a Self Test” in Chapter 8.
Hex dump
By holding down both the LF/FF Load and
Tear Off buttons while you turn on the
printer, you can turn on the hex dump
mode. This feature prints the codes that
are sent to the printer so that advanced
users can find the cause of communication
problems between the computer and
printer. See “Using the Hex Dump Mode”
in Chapter 8 for more information.
Print settings
By holding down the Pause button while
you turn on the printer, you can print the
current DIP switch settings. See the next
section for more information.
Paper memory
setting
By holding down the Paper Select button
while you turn on the printer, you can
register the paper form information when
you use multi-part forms that overlap or
forms with labels on them. See “Using the
Paper Memory Feature” on page 4-22.
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