Tearing Off the Printed Pages

After you finish printing, you can use the tear-off feature to

 

advance continuous paper on the push tractor to the tear-off

 

edge of the printer. You can then easily tear off printed sheets.

 

When you resume printing, the printer automatically feeds

 

paper back to the loading position.

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This feature lets you save paper that would normally be lost

between documents.

You can use the tear-off feature in two ways: by turning on DIP switch 3-1 to select automatic tear-off mode, or by pressing the Tear Off button on the control panel. (See Chapter 4 for information on changing DIP switch settings.)

If the perforation between pages is not aligned with the tear-off edge, you can adjust the tear-off position using the micro-feed feature. The printer remembers this new tear-off position.

cCaution:

Never use the tear-off feature to reverse feed labels, overlapping multi-part forms, continuous forms with labels, or overlapping multi-part forms with labels. Do not use the tear-off feature when the optional pull tractor is installed or when using the paper memory feature (described in Chapter 4).

Tear-off mode

When you select tear-off mode with DIP switch 3-1, the printer automatically advances continuous paper to the tear-off position when you finish printing.

The printer advances paper to the tear-off position only when the printer receives a full page of data or a form feed command and no more data is received for three seconds.

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