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Chapter 8
Customizing the Printer
This chapter describes the factory default settings of the printer and the steps you follow to customize these settings for your particular printing needs.
You will find that the factory default settings provide features to meet most of your printing needs. With these settings, your printer emulates any Canon BJ printer and the IBM Proprinter X24E. This means you can use the printer with any software application that supports these printers.
Make sure the printer's settings match the requirements of your software application. If you have a unique printing requirement, you can customize the printer by changing the DIP switch settings as described in this chapter.
Your printer defaults to
You can also enable automatic emulation switching, which allows the printer to switch between
The DIP switches are located under the cover on the left side of the printer.
Factory Default Settings
The following table shows the factory default settings of the printer:
Function | Setting |
Printer control mode | |
Character Pitch | 10 characters per inch (cpi) |
Line spacing | 6 lines per inch (lpi) |
Print quality | High quality (HQ) mode |
Beeper | Enabled |
Automatic carriage return (CR) | Disabled (no CR with line feed) |
Automatic line feed (LF) | Disabled (no automatic LF after CR) |
Slashed zero | Disabled (zero not slashed) |
Vertical tab stops | No vertical tabs set |
Horizontal tab stops | Column 9 (then every 8th column) |
Vertical margins | Top margin = first print line |
| Bottom margin = page length |
Horizontal margins | Left margin = 0 |
| Right margin = maximum print width |
Page length | 11 inches |
Horizontal print position | Letter |
Print direction | |
Font typeface | Courier |
Character set | Character Set 1 |
Code page | 437 (IBM USA) |
Buffer | Input = Approx. 41.2 KB |
| Download = 0 KB |
Text scale mode | Disabled |
Envelope mode | Disabled |