Epson 8000 Printer User Manual


 
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3-12 | Configuring the Printer
Setting and Configuring Printer Emulations
The Emulation menu lets you select any of five alternate emulations for your
printer (in addition to PostScript and the native ESC/Page Color language):
LJ4
: HP
®
LaserJet 4 (PCL5e)
ESCP2
: EPSON 24-pin dot-matrix printer
FX
: EPSON 9-pin dot-matrix printer
I239X
: IBM
®
Proprinter
®
GL2
: GL/2
®
plotter
The default
Auto
setting lets the printer switch to the correct emulation
automatically based on incoming data.
You can use the Test menu to print font samples for the various emulations,
in addition to printing the two test pages described in Chapter 2. Five
additional menus are available so you can set printing options for the five
alternate emulations.
The following tables show the options available for each emulation. The
default option is shown in boldface.
Tray Size menu settings
Setting Options Description
MP Tray Size A4, A3, A5, B4,
B5,
LT
, B, HLT,
LGL, GLT, GLG,
EXE, F4, MON,
C10, DL, C6,
IB5, CTM, A3W
Sets the size for paper in the
multipurpose tray. See page B-2 for
page size dimensions.
LC1 Size LC 2, 3, and 4
items only
appear if you
have the large
capacity unit.
The tray size setting for the cassettes is
always based on the position of the
edge guides in the cassettes
themselves. You can use the menu
only to check the setting.
LC2 Size
LC3 Size
LC4 Size