Care and Maintenance

If you can’t make a print

Trouble

Corrective Action

 

 

Printer not operating.

Make sure that you plugged in the printer and turned it on.

 

 

 

Make sure that you connected the interface cable(s)

 

properly.

 

 

More info to come for

If the communication link between your computer and

these messages.

the printer is working but the printer ejects a blank page

 

when printing from your application or through Windows,

 

make sure that the appropriate driver is installed and that

 

you have selected the printer correctly.

 

 

Trouble

Possible Cause

 

Corrective Action

 

 

 

The printer does

The computer is not

Follow the procedure below and

not print correctly.

properly

disable the

 

communicating with

bi-directional interface. (The Status

 

the printer.

Display function becomes

 

 

ineffective.)

 

 

Windows 95:

 

 

1.

Click Start, select Settings, then

 

 

 

click Printers.

 

 

2.

Click the Panasonic KX-PS8000

 

 

 

icon.

 

 

3.

Click the File menu, then click

 

 

 

Properties.

 

 

4.

Click the Details tab and Spool

 

 

 

settings... .

 

 

5.

Click Disable bi-directional

 

 

 

support for this printer, then

 

 

 

click OK.

 

 

Windows 3.1:

 

 

1.

Double-clickStatus monitor setup

 

 

 

icon in the KX-PS8000 Utilities

 

 

 

program group.

 

 

2.

Click the Device tab.

 

 

3.

Click off the Monitor Printer

 

 

 

check box.

 

 

4. Click OK.

 

 

Windows NT 4.0:

 

 

1.

Click Start, select Settings, then

 

 

 

click Printers.

 

 

2.

Click the Panasonic KX-PS8000

 

 

 

icon.

 

 

3.

Click the File menu, then click

 

 

 

Properties.

 

 

4.

Click the Ports tab.

 

 

5.

Click off the Enable bidirectional

 

 

 

support check box.

 

 

6. Click OK.

 

 

 

 

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