EPSON DFX-8500

Pitch

Selects the characters per inch for

 

printing. Press the button until the light

 

appears next to the desired pitch. (Your

 

software setting overrides this setting.)

 

This button can also be used to run the

 

draft self test.

Micro Feed

These two buttons advance or reverse the

 

loaded paper in 1/216-inch increments.

Copy

TOF

(Top of Form)

Tear Off

Lets you print the document darker. This button is available in SuperDraft and Draft mode only and is disabled if you use the status monitor utility and select a paper number from 1 to 8.

When the top cover is open, lets you enter and exit the top-of-form mode to adjust the top-of-form position.

If your printing begins too high or low on the page, you can reset the top-of-form position by entering top-of-form mode and using micro feed to adjust the position. The printer remembers this new top-of-form position even after it is turned off, reset, or initialized. Also, the printer remembers separate top-of-form positions for the front and rear tractors.

Feeds the paper to the printer’s tear-off edge and puts the printer in tear-off mode.

The top button advances the paper and

the bottom button reverses it. You can

use these buttons to adjust the top-of-

form, tear-off, and printing positions.

To reset the top-of-form position, press

the TOF button to enter top-of-form

mode. Then use the Micro Feed buttons

to move the paper to the desired position.

To reset the tear-off position, press the

Tear Off button to enter tear-off mode

and feed the paper to the tear-off

position. Then use the Micro Feed

buttons to move the paper to the desired

position.

To adjust the printing position, press

either Micro Feed button to advance or

reverse the paper to the desired position.

cCAUTION:

When labels are loaded, use only the top Micro Feed button. Never feed labels backward through the printer.

If the perforation on your paper does not align exactly with the printer’s tear-off edge, use the Micro Feed buttons to adjust the tear-off position.

This button can also be used to run the printer’s NLQ self test.

cCAUTION:

Never press the Tear Off button when labels are loaded in the printer. Use the LF/FF Load button to feed the printed labels to a point where they can be torn off.

LF/FF Load

LF advances paper one line at a time. To

 

feed your paper forward one line, press

 

this button once.

 

FF advances continuous paper to the top

Pause

Tractor Select Front/Rear

Press to temporarily stop printing. Press again to resume printing.

Hold down for at least 3 seconds to reset the printer’s control panel settings.

Selects the front or rear tractor. If you have been using paper loaded on one tractor, first remove the printed output before pressing this button to switch the tractor. When you switch between tractors, the paper already loaded in the printer is fed backward to the standby position, and the paper on the newly selected tractor is loaded.

of the next page. Press and hold the

button for about one second.

Load loads paper on the push tractor of

the selected paper path when no paper is

currently loaded.

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cCAUTION:

Never use the Front/Rear button when labels are loaded in the printer. Always tear off any printed pages or excess paper so you don't feed more than one page backward through the printer.

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