EPSON DFX-8500

Tearing off the printed pages

After you finish printing, you can use the tear-off feature to advance continuous paper on the push tractor to the tear-off edge of the printer. You can then easily tear off printed sheets. When you resume printing, the printer automatically feeds paper back to the loading position.

This feature lets you save paper that would normally be lost between documents.

You can use the tear-off feature in two ways: by turning on DIP switch 3-1 to select automatic tear-off mode, or by pressing the Tear Off button on the control panel.

If the perforation between pages is not aligned with the tear- off edge, you can adjust the tear-off position using the micro- feed feature. The printer remembers this new tear-off position.

2.Tear off all printed pages. If the perforation is not aligned with the tear-off edge, adjust the tear-off position as described in the next section.

3.When you resume printing, the printer feeds the paper back to the loading position and begins printing. (You can also manually feed the paper back to the loading position by pressing the Tear Off button again.)

Adjusting the tear-off position

If the paper’s perforation is not aligned with the tear-off edge, follow these steps:

1.Turn on the printer and select the desired tractor.

2.Open the paper separator cover (the flap on the top part of the printer’s top cover). This exposes the printer’s tear-off edge.

cCAUTION:

Never use the tear-off feature to reverse feed labels, overlapping multi-part forms, continuous forms with labels, or overlapping multi-part forms with labels. Do not use the tear-off feature when the optional pull tractor is installed or when using the paper memory feature.

Tear-off mode

When you select tear-off mode with DIP switch 3-1, the printer automatically advances continuous paper to the tear- off position when you finish printing.

The printer advances paper to the tear-off position only when the printer receives a full page of data or a form feed command and no more data is received for three seconds.

Follow these steps to select tear-off mode:

1.Make sure the printer is turned off.

2.Turn DIP switch 3-1 on.

3.Turn the printer on.

When tear-off mode is on and you print on continuous paper on the push tractor, the printer advances the final printed page to the tear-off position. Then you can tear off all printed pages. If the perforation is not aligned with the tear-off edge, adjust the tear-off position.

When you resume printing, the printer automatically feeds the paper back to the loading position and begins printing.

3.Press the Tear Off button to enter the tear-off mode. The Tear Off light comes on and the printer feeds the paper’s perforation to the printer’s tear-off edge.

4.If the paper is not aligned with the tear-off edge, press the Micro Feed buttons to feed the paper forward or backward in 1/216-inch increments. (You can also hold down either Micro Feed button to feed the paper continuously.)

Using the Tear Off button

Whether or not the printer is in tear-off mode, you can use the Tear Off button to advance continuous paper to the tear-off position by following the steps below.

1.Make sure printing has finished. Then press the Tear Off button. The printer advances the paper to the tear-off edge and the Tear Off light comes on.

Note:

You can reset the tear-off position only when you are in tear-off mode (after you press the Tear Off button once and the Tear Off light is on). The printer remembers the new tear-off position even after the printer is turned off, reset, or initialized.

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