AGFA manual Feeding Media Manually, 14DEClaser 2100 Printer Operators Guide

2.7 Feeding Media Manually

The paper feed guide on the cover of the cassette enables you to manually feed paper, labels, transparencies, and envelopes into the printer. The paper feed guide also allows you to print on odd-size paper that cannot be used in the cassette. Duplex (two-sided) printing is also possible through manual feed operation (see Section 2.8).

Although labels and transparencies are usually fed manually, high-quality labels and transparencies, such as those sold through DECdirect, can also be fed automatically from the cassette. Check the media specifications in Chapter 5 for additional information about labels and transparencies.

Not all media can be fed automatically from the cassette. You must feed the following print media into the printer manually:

•Nonstandard-sized papers from 100 mm x 190 mm (3.9" x 7 ½") to 216 mm x 356 mm (8 ½" x 14") that do not fit in the cassette).

•Thicker papers whose basis weight is from 84 g/ m2 to 135 g/ m2 (22 lb. to 36 lb.)

•Envelopes (unless you are using the special envelope cassette)

You can invoke manual feed operation in three ways:

•Using the

Manual Feed

key on the control panel.

•Selecting the Manual value in the FEEDER menu.

•Sending a command from the host computer.

When feeding paper manually, you need to tell the printer the paper size you are using so that printing occurs in the proper area on the page. For A4-size and letter-size paper, you can set the paper (size) feature in the INITIAL menu (Table 4–12). The paper feature sets up the printing coordinates for manual feed operation according to the value selected: either A4 or letter. This allows the printer to print within the correct boundaries on the sheet of paper.

For paper sizes other than A4 or letter, you must use commands from the host computer that tell the printer the paper size you are using. These commands tell the printer where to print on the page. An example of this would be printing on legal-size paper. Since the printer does not recognize the larger legal-size paper, you must send it the proper commands (escape sequences) to print correctly on the page. These commands should precede the data in the file to be printed.

The following command line contains instructions to print on legal-size paper in manual feed mode. This example is set up to print a file on an

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