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You also need to become familiar with two other important printer
parts before you attempt to load any type of paper. Remove the dust
cover and open the front cover to find and identify these parts: the
platen release lever and the print head adjustment lever.
Platen release lever
The platen release lever controls the pressure of the friction rollers
against the platen. It is the black lever located on the left side of the
printer at the end of the platen (as shown in Figure
3-1).
This lever has
two settings: engaged (back) and released (forward).
Figure 3-1. Adjustment levers
The first setting, engaged, is used with the single-sheet feed opera-
tion which is also called friction feed. In this position the pressure of
the friction rollers against the paper causes it to feed through the
printer.
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