clean the print head, start a printer self test, and turn on automatic line feeds.
See Chapter 5, Using the Operator Panel, for details.
DIP Switches
The printer's DIP switches allow you to set the default printer configuration settings, such as paper and envelope size, text lines per page, character sets, and so on. See Chapter 8, Customizing the Printer, for details.
Line Printers Versus Page Printers
Line Printers
Your Canon
Page Printers
Page printers process and print information one page at a time. The information sent from the computer to the printer is sometimes in simple ASCII code, or more often, in a page description language. This information is a set of instructions that the printer must interpret to determine where the printer should position each dot. Some common page description languages include PostScript, CaPSL, and
HP PCL.
Line Printers and Processing
With line printers almost all of the processing burden falls on the computer. The printer needs to do very little additional processing of the information it receives from the
Because most of the processing takes place on the computer, the speed of the computer's processor (386, 486, Pentium) and the amount of random access memory(RAM) on your computer have a significant influence on printing speed.