IBM 3000 manual Select the No option within the Print While Threading? eld

vYou have visually checked the forms path and found it separated between Printer 1 and Printer 2.

vThe main Thread/Align Forms procedure window appears on the Display Touch Screen.

vA print job is queued, and host attachments are enabled if the ªPrint While Threadingº option is selected.

Threading Without Printing

1.SELECT the No option within the Print While Threading? ®eld.

2.SELECT the Start pushbutton.

3.If no forms were damaged and there is enough slack in the forms, splice the forms together.

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4.If forms were damaged and must be removed or there is not enough slack to splice the forms back together, use either the Feed Forms or Printer 1 Feed Page pushbuttons to advance the forms through Printer 1 enough to splice the forms together. The ®rst selection of either the Feed Forms or the Printer 1 Feed Page pushbutton does the following:

a. This prints a solid alignment mark after the leading edge on a page in

Printer 1, which is designated as an alignment page.

A one-bar or two-bar pattern is also printed on the alignment page. The

bar shows whether Side 1 or Side 2 of the form is being printed on Printer

1.

This prints a dashed alignment mark after the leading edge of the page.

b. Feeds a ®xed length of forms through Printer 1. This is either the length

set in the Form Feed Length printer con®guration item if you select the

Feed Forms pushbutton or the length of one page according the page

length de®nition for the Form Name currently loaded if you select the

Printer 1 Feed Page pushbutton.

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