ActionPrinter 2250

The Control Panel

You can control basic printer operations - line feeding, form feeding, paper loading and ejecting, and font selection - with the buttons on the control panel. The indicator lights show the printer status.

 

 

 

FONT lights

 

 

 

 

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READY

 

 

 

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FONT button LF/FF button

Lights

The panel lights provide information on certain printer conditions and settings.

LF/FF button

Press the LF/FF button during normal operation to feed paper line by line. Hold down the LF/FF button to load a single sheet of paper or to advance continuous paper to the next top-of-form. You can also press the LF/FF button to eject a page.

When you are in the default-setting mode, use this button to change the default settings.

PAPER PARK

If you are using continuous paper, you can press the LF/FF and FONT buttons at the same time to move the paper back to the paper-park position.

0.CAUTION: Never feed labels backward; they may peel

! off their backing sheet and damage the printer. Use the LF/FF button to feed them forward.

Other control-panel features

The control panel also gives you access to two special features:

READY light

The READY light is on when the printer is ready to receive data from the computer. It flashes briefly each time you turn on the printer. The READY light also flashes under the following conditions:

. The printer is out of paper.

•The printer is in the tear-off mode (when the push tractor is installed.)

When an error occurs, the READY light goes off.

FONT lights

Self Test

Data dump

The self test lets you check whether your printer is operating properly.

The data dump allows advanced users to pinpoint communications problems between the printer and computer. Hold down the LFlFF and FONT buttons while turning on the printer to enter data dump mode. The printer prints the exact codes (in hexadecimal format) reaching it from the computer.

The FONT lights indicate the current font setting. These lights change when you press the FONT button. Look at the font menu on the control panel to see which font is selected.

The FONT lights (Light 1 and Light 2) also indicate your selection in the default-setting mode.

Buttons

The two buttons on the control panel perform different functions depending on the printer mode.

FONT button

Press the FONT button during normal operation to cycle through the font choices on the font menu. The two FONT lights indicate current selections.

Hold down the FONT button while you turn on the printer to enter the default-setting mode. When you are in the default-setting mode, use this button to make your selection.

Selecting character fonts

To choose one of the fonts available with your printer, press the

FONT button.

FONT

The two FONT lights come on (a) and go off (0) to indicate the current selection. The table below lists the fonts and shows how the FONT lights appear for each selection.

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