Compaq LA36 user manual Options with Both Pre-determined and Undetermined Values

Models: LA36

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Using Set-Up Mode

the button to select the Macro 2 function and print the <PROTOCOL> option and its values.

3.Print the menu of the left margin option.

Since you do not want to change other than the left margin, press the button to select the current protocol. Bolded PORT DEPND is underlined and the next option <PRTCL SERL> is printed. (Bolded value indicates the current setting and underlined value is

the new setting.) Repeatedly press the button in the same way, until the <LEFT MARGN> option and its value are printed.

4.Change the left margin from column 1 to column 20.

Press and hold the button until the printer beeps nineteen times. When the button is released, the new value is printed next to the current value. If the new value is not

20 COL, repeat this operation. If it is 20 COL, press the button to select 20 COL. 20 COL is underlined and the next option <TOP OF FRM> and its value are printed.

5.Exit the Macro 2 function.

Since you do not want to make any other changes in MACRO 2, press the Exit/Save button. The <FUNCTIONS> menu is then reprinted and the red cursor is positioned beneath SAVE&EXIT.

6.Exit the Set-Up mode, saving or not saving the new left margin.

Press the button or the button to save 20 columns as the new power-on defaults in Macro 2 and exit Macro 2. The printer then exits the Set-Up mode and returns ready. These settings remain in effect until the next time they are changed.

Press the Set-Up/Quitbutton if you do not intend saving these settings in Macro 2.

Options with Both Pre-determined and Undetermined Values

Some options include both types of values. Undetermined values appear at the end of the list of pre-determined values, identified by the unit of the corresponding range.

For example, when you select the <FORM LENGH> option (Form Length), the following menu is printed as follows:

<FORM

LENGH>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

INCHES

3.5

INCHES

4

INCHES

5.5

INCHES 6

INCHES 7

INCHES 8

INCHES 8.5

INCHES

11

INCHES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 2/3INCH

12

INCHES

14

INCHES

15

INCHES

No of LINE

 

 

1.Select the No of LINE value.

A new option menu with undetermined values is printed.

2.Change the value according to the previous procedure.

The chart on the next page summarizes how to select options such as protocol and font and how to use the functions that do not have options.

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Compaq LA36 user manual Options with Both Pre-determined and Undetermined Values, Print the menu of the left margin option