Paxar 9401 manual Determining the Number of Formats, Clearing Formats

9401/9402 System Administrator's Guide

Memory Card Duplications. Before you insert a memory card, ensure that the format numbers on the card do not duplicate any format numbers in RAM.

A duplicate condition will cause you to be unable to use the duplicate format on the memory card.

To avoid this occurrence, check the formats in RAM before inserting the memory card. If a format in RAM has the same number, clear the format from RAM before inserting the memory card.

Determining the Number of Formats

To determine the number of formats currently stored in the printer, follow this procedure

1.Press and hold 8to go to the Main menu.

2.Press 1 or 2 until you see Format.

3.Press 6.

4.Press 1 or 2 until you see Temporary.

5.Press 6.

6.At this point, one of two items appears on the printer display

No formats!

Press Enter.

- OR -

You will see a format name. If you see a format name, press

1or 2 to scroll through the formats. If there are six or more formats, clear one or more of them before downloading any more formats.

Clearing Formats

To clear a format, send the printer a packet in the form of {F,#,C,R p }, where # is the number of the format to clear.

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