Adjusting the Top of Form Position

The top of form position is the position the printer feeds the paper to when it loads the paper or performs a form feed. This position is important because it determines where the printing begins on each page.

If the printing is too high or low on the page, you can reset the top of form position by following the steps below. The printer remembers the new top of form position even after the printer is turned off, reset, or initialized. (The printer remembers separate top of form positions for the front and rear tractors.)

To temporarily change the top of form position, you can adjust the position when the printer is not in top of form mode or you change the printing position in the middle of a page as described in the next section. The printer remembers the temporary top of form position until the next time you load paper or switch tractors.

You can set the top of form position, from 0.1 inches (2.6 mm) to 22 inches (558.8 mm) below the top edge of paper. The factory setting is the 0.2 inches (5.8 mm) position below the top edge of paper.

WARNING: When labels are loaded in the printer, d o not

I!!!!!9 enter top of form mode as described in this section. To adjust the top of form position when you are using labels,

use only the forward-feeding (top) MICRO FEED button. Labels must never be fed backward through the printer. See the section on adjusting the printing position in this chapter.

CAUTION: While using the paper memory feature to save

6the format information about your multi-part forms, do not try to adjust the top of form position.

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