Using the Tear Off button

Whether or not the printer is in tear-off mode, you can use the Tear Off button to advance continuous paper to the tear-off position by following the steps below.

1. Make sure printing has finished. Then press the Tear Off

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button. The printer advances the paper to the tear-off edge

and the Tear Off light comes on.

2.Tear off all printed pages. If the perforation is not aligned with the tear-off edge, adjust the tear-off position as described in the next section.

3.When you resume printing, the printer feeds the paper back to the loading position and begins printing. (You can also manually feed the paper back to the loading position by pressing the Tear Off button again.)

Adjusting the tear-off position

If the paper’s perforation is not aligned with the tear-off edge, follow these steps:

l.Turn on the printer and select the desired tractor.

2.Open the paper separator cover (the flap on the top

part of the printer’s top cover). This exposes the printer’s tear-off edge.

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