Canon BJ-230 user manual Feeding Paper, Selecting a Print Mode

will stop. To start printing again, press the ON LINE button.

Feeding Paper

When the printer is off-line, you can use the LF/FF button to advance the paper in the printer. You can perform a line feed or a form feed, or you can eject a sheet of paper.

Line feeding

When a sheet of paper is loaded and the printer is off-line, press the LF/FF button to advance the paper one line. Press the button repeatedly to feed as many lines as you want.

Form feeding

When you are loading paper, make sure the printer is off-line and press the LF/FF button to load the first sheet of paper to its top of form. Set the printer back on-line to print. (If you are running a software application, you don't need to perform this step. The application the printer when to load paper.)

Ejecting paper

When you want to eject a sheet of paper, make sure the printer is off- line and press the LF/FF button for one second. The printer ejects the current sheet of paper.

Selecting a Print Mode

Your printer incorporates two print modes that allow you to choose between print speed and print quality:

			Noise level
Print Mode	Function	Speed at 10 cpi	in decibels
HS	High speed and draft	248 cps	Approx. 42
	quality printing
HQ	High quality printing	173 cps	Approx. 42
SHQ	Super high quality and	124 cps	Approx. 40
	silent printing

You use the PRINT MODE button to select the current print mode when the printer is off-line. Pressing this button once selects HQ mode, pressing it again selects SHQ mode, and pressing it again selects HS mode. The HS and HQ lights indicate which mode is selected. (When both the HS and HQ lights are on, the printer is in SHQ mode.)

Select your printer modes as follow: