2 Basic Operation

Specifying a location in the left-right direction (the direction of carriage movement)

1

Press the [

] key to move the carriage to the present

2

Use the [

] and [

] keys to line up the new

starting location for printing in the left-right direction.

starting location for printing with the left edge of the

carriage.

Left edge of the carriage

 

 

 

Starting location for

Right-hand

edge of

printing in the left and

the material

 

right direction

 

 

 

 

 

3 Press the [BASE POINT] key.

The BASE POINT LED lights up

The origin point is set.

To release the starting location that

has been set...

•Set a new starting location in a different location.

•Press the [SETUP] key to cancel the setup for the material (making the SETUP LED go out).

- 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.

- The starting location set by pressing the [BASE POINT] key is released after printing one page.

Setting the printing area in the left-right direction (the direction of carriage movement)

* This can be set only at the time of material setup.

1

Press the [MENU] key and [ ] key to make the

following screen appear on the display.

MENU

PRINT AREA

Press the [ ] key to make the following screen

2 appear on the display.

The carriage indicates the present location of the right- hand edge of the printing area.

PRINT AREA

MOVE TO R-EDGE

Right-hand edge of

Right-hand edge of

the printing area

the material

 

 

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