Genicom LA36 manual Selecting Macro 1 or Macro

Printing

The Font button specifies one of the nine resident fonts defined by font names and pitches on the control panel. The selectable resident fonts are Draft, High-speed (HS) Draft, and High-impact (Hi) Draft, Courier 10, Prestige 12, Compressed 17, Boldface PS, Timeless PS, Nimbus Sans PS. Even if you select a font (excepting Soft Control), the printer will monitor font commands from the computer, but continue to use the font specified by the control panel until another selection is made or the printer is turned off. If you select Soft Crtl (Soft Control), the printer will use the font specified by commands from the computer.

The Protocol button allows you either to choose one of the three resident protocols or to allow the printer to automatically switch to one of the three protocols according to Set-Up settings. The resident protocols are DEC PPL2, IBM Proprinter X24E, and Epson ESC/P2 protocols.

When you first turn the printer on, the M1 indicator is lit with the DEC and PPX24 indicators flashing alternately; the Soft Ctrl indicator is lit, and the Ready indicator is lit (the Fault indicator will also be lit if no paper is loaded). In other words, all of the print features assigned to Macro 1 are enabled; the fonts used depend on font commands from the computer, but the Draft font is used if no font command is received (because the FONT option is set to DRAFT in Set-Up mode for Macro 1); the printer assigns the DEC PPL2 protocol to the serial interface port and the Epson protocol to the parallel interface port. However, you can easily switch to other settings before printing as described below:

Selecting Macro 1 or Macro 2

When you first turn the printer on, Macro 1 is selected. To change to Macro 2 or back to Macro 1, proceed as follows:

1.Press the Macro button 1 to place the printer in the macro changeable state. The M1 and M2 indicators blink alternately.

2.Within three seconds, press the M1 or M2 button 2. The lighted indicator (M1 or M2) shows the macro selected. This selection is permanently retained in the printer.

Draft	Courier 10			Fault
HSDraft				DEC
				EP2
HiDraft	Comp. 17	Nimb. PS	M1	PPX24
	Ready	Soft Ctrl.	M2

Set-up/Quit Top

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M1M2

Exit/Save

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Control Panel

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