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Using Your Printer with Software
If none of the printers listed above are available from your program,
use the Epson LQ or FX mode. If you use LQ or FX mode, choose
one of the following printers (listed in order of preference).
LQ Mode
LQ-1050/850
SQ-2500
LQ-2500
LQ-1000/800 (expanded ESC/P)
LQ-500/510
LQ-1500 (with version 2 ROM)
LQ printer
FX Mode
FX-1050/850
FX-286e/86e
FX-286/185/85
FX-100/80
FX printer
If none of these printers are listed among your program’s options,
choose the first available of the following: EX, JX, LX, RX, MX,
Epson printer, Standard printer, or Draft printer.
How Your Printer Prints
When you print a document, the data for the document is
temporarily stored in the printer’s memory. The printer’s memory
contains data from the time it receives a print command until it
finishes the last page of the print job.
If the print mechanism is not moving during a print job, the printer
may be composing a page in memory. It may take a few minutes to
image a complex page or graphics before printing it.
If you don’t know whether a print job is complete, look at the
display. If the display reads FF, the print job is not finished and the
printer’s memory contains data.
If you want to stop a print job before it has finished and clear the
printer’s memory, cancel the print job using your application
program and then press RESET to reset the printer.
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