Brother HL-1260 service manual Format Card

CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL

∙If you turn the printer off or remove the flash memory card or the HDD card while data is being written onto or deleted from the card, all the data on the card may be lost.

∙If the write protect switch of the flash memory card or the HDD card is on, this mode menu does not appear.

Be sure to install a commercial flash memory card or HDD card in the upper card slot of the printer. For installation, see “FONT CARTRIDGE/CARD, FLASH MEMORY/HDD CARD” in Chapter 5.

When you are in this mode menu, you can save macros and fonts in the installed flash memory card or the HDD card.

The sub-setting menus displayed in this mode menu vary according to the state of the installed card.

When the installed card is not formatted:

When you enter this mode menu with the flash memory card or the HDD card installed but not formatted by this printer, you must first format the card.

Display Message	Card Operation
FORMAT CARD	Format a new flash memory card or HDD
	card.
exit	Exit to CARD OPERATION

When the display shows “FORMAT CARD,” press the SET switch to format the installed card.

After the printer finishes formatting the card, you exit to the “CARD OPERATION” menu.

✒Notes

∙If the card is formatted, data that has been previously written is erased.

∙It takes ten or more seconds to format a 2-Mbyte flash memory card or HDD card. The more the capacity of the card, the longer time it takes to format the card.

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