Star Micronics LC24-20 Printer User Manual


 
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
The control panel buttons can be pressed mdlwdually to perform the opefatlons !nd$cated by their names.
LCD DISPLAY — shows the ,nfornmt,on of
EJECTIPARK SUTTON Pressing th,s
display When InQ.,etnmde wlm the QUIET’
!he p,,nte, status.
button parks the fanfold farms m ejects the
message, the Printer w,IIPr,nt ,1,ghfly slower
FON’T BUTTON selects the font to be
c.t sheet paper
but at a reduced no,se level
Printed T..han9ethefo.t setthepr,nteroff -
PAPER FEED BUTFON II you press th,s
ON LINE BUTTON-sets the p,,nter on.l,ne
1,”,, then press the FONT button repeatedly
bulfon wh,le off-l,.., the paper Will feed for-
andotlllne Thestatuschanges eachtime you
.nth the message.. the d,splay (all.m,nates ward. Ifyou hold the button dawn, the pmt.,
press the button.
PITCH SUTTON .llOWSy.. to select the
VA petiorm consec.tlve hne feeds
P,intl.9 Plt.h Remember thaf the prlnier
Ifyou press th,s button while .nl,ne th,sWIII
m“St be off-l,., foryo” to do th,s.
alternately flash fhe’QUIET’ message o”the
POWER-UP FuNCTlONs ~
The control panel buttons have special functions that operate f you hold them down while swltch[ng power on.
SELF.TEST
If the pr,nter ,s turned on wh,ksthe ON LINE
button ,s pressed, the printer w,II enter the
shofi self-test mode. wth the PI message
on thed,splay.
If the pr,nter ,s turned on wh,(e the PAPER
FEED button $spressed, thepr,nter w,lfenter
the long self-test mode, w,th the P2’ me..
sage o“ the d,sPlay
PRINT AREA TEST
By hofd,ng the EJECTIPARK butt.” down
d.r,ng power-up, the pr,nter Will emer the
pr,nt area test mode. w,ththe P3 ~e,,age
on the d,sp(ay Th,s way. you can f,nd how
ma”y l,nes on your paper are cwa,lable for
pr,ntmg.
PITCH LOCK
By hold,ng the PITCH button down d.r,ng
power-up. theprlntp(tchcan only deselected
from the control panel Th,s p,e”..l$ s. ft-
wme ,nterferen.e You will hear.. acknowl-
mw
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Font
I%k
edg,ngbeep andthepr, nterw,ll show the P-
LOCK message 0“ the d,splay as Pow,,
comes..
FONT LOCK
Byhold,ngthe FONT b.tton d.r,ngpmver..p
fonts can only be selected from the control
panel. Thm prevents software ,nterferen.e
P,tch Pr(ntarea Long
Shml
lock test test
test
Them w,IIbe an a.knowledg,,lg beep and F-
LOCK message 0“ the d,splay
HEXADECIMAL DUMP
Inthmmode, a(ldata rece,vedw,ll beprlnted ,n
a hexade., rnal dump format rather than the
control codes be,ng acted on as command
codes
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS ~
Several addlt[ona( funct[ons can be obtained by pres.mg the control panel buttons wtth the off-hne state
FORM FEED
It you are .s,ng cut forms, th,s operation
elects the current page If you are .smg
fanfold forms, (tfeeds to the top of the flext
P.9e
TOP OF FQRM
When you Power on the pr,nter, the top-of-
form pos,tio” ISautmnattcally Setto the cur.
rempos,t, on If!h,sis notwhereyo. wa”tthe
topofthepage to be,yo. can change lhetop
of-form past,...
MICRO-FEED
For f,ne al,gmnent, y.. can fed the paper
e,ther forward or reverse ,. V.V small mere.
ments
BUFFER CLEARfALL RESET
Tum,ng power off ISorw way to clea, the
buffer, but there ,s another way
$le$s and hold the ON LINE and FONT
button m off-l,ne The bC” message shows
on d,splq s,gnallng that the buffer has bee.
TOPof form
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Reverse micro-feed
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Savemacro
Form feed
Bufler clearlAll reset
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cleared lfyo. hold these b.ttons more thwe
~ SAVE MACRO
seconds, you WIIIhear fhree beep tones and You canstore thecurrentsetl,ngs tothepr,”te,
the printer Wllfbe ,nmalz’ed to the power... for later use w,th the FONT butt.. and tho
default sett,ngs PITCH button comb,nat,ons
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