2 Basic Operation

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Press the [ ] key to make the following screen

appear on the display.

Setting the right-hand edge

Use the [ ] and [ ] keys to move the left edge of the carriage to the location that you want to make the right-hand edge of the printing area. Press the [ENTER] key to lock in the setting with an audible beep.

PRINT AREA

SET R-EDGE

Left edge of the carriage

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Press the [ ] key to make the following screen

appear on the display.

Setting the left-hand edge

Use the [ ] and [ ] keys to move the left edge of the carriage to the location that you want to make the left-hand edge of the printing area. Press the [EN- TER] key to lock in the setting with an audible beep.

PRINT AREA

SET L-EDGE

Left edge of the carriage

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Press the [ ] key to make the following screen

appear on the display.

 

The carriage indicates the present location of the left-

 

hand edge of the printing area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRINT AREA

 

 

 

MOVE TO L-EDGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left-hand edge

Left-hand edge of

of the material

the printing area

 

 

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Press the [ ] key to make the following screen

appear on the display.

Press the [ENTER] key.

PRINT AREA

EXIT

When the location of the right- or left-hand edge could not be set at the specified place, [PRINT R-EDGE (or L-EDGE) SET ERROR] appears on the display. The problem may be one of the two situations described below.

-The location specified for the left-hand edge was farther to the right than the location of the right-hand edge.

- If the carriage moves away from the standby position when not printing, problems such as drying-out of the printing heads or dot drop-

out during printing may occur. For this reason, about 60 seconds after pressing the [ ] key to move the carriage, the carriage returns to the standby position.

Also, the carriage returns to the standby position when about 20 seconds passes during this interval after the [ ] and [ ] key is released.

If the setting could not be made in within the time limit, then do the setting over again from the beginning.

-After setting the printing area, pressing the [SETUP] key to cancel the setup for the material (making the SETUP LED go out) cancels the printing area that has been set.

-Using [PRINT AREA] to set the printing area when the starting location in the left-right direction has been specified with the [BASE POINT] key, the setting made with the [BASE POINT] key is canceled.

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