AALARM indicator (25)

Lights in green when the system is initialized, or in red when an error, such as a paper jam, occurs.

BInformation Display (14, 18, 25)

Displays the number of pages printed, or the amount of paper and ink ribbon remaining. Messages are displayed when an error or warning condition occurs.

COperation panel door

Pull the top edge to open the operation panel door.

Operation panel with door openAEXEC Button

Press this button to print the gray scale adjustment pattern.

BMENU Button (18)

Press to display the number of pages printed or the amount of paper and ink ribbon remaining. Pressing the MENU button changes the printer to the off-line mode and turns the ONLINE indicator off.

CCursor Buttons (18)

Press these buttons to select the item to be displayed on the information display.

DCALIBRATION button (16)

Press this button to adjust the gray balance.

DMaintenance door (22)

Open the maintenance door for cleaning the surface of the paper. The roller used for removing the dust accumulated on the surface of the paper is attached to the door.

EONLINE indicator (14, 18)

Lights in green when the printer is controlled only by the computer in the on-line mode.

This indicator goes off when the printer goes off- line, for example, when you press the MENU

button to display the number of pages printed or the amount of paper and ribbon remaining.

FPRINT Indicator (14) Lights in green while printing.

GVentilation holes (22)

Behind the ventilation holes panel, there is a built- in fan to prevent the thermal head from overheating

HFEED button (12, 15)

Press and hold this button for more than one second immediately after you replace the paper and ink ribbon in use. Several sheets of blank paper are then fed through. In this way, soiled paper at the beginning of the roll will be eliminated, and paper improperly loaded at an angle will be straightened in the paper path. Also, pressing the FEED button for more than one second during printing results in cancelling the number of printings set and clearing the images stored in the memory. The printer stops printing when the page currently printing is completed and ejected.

I!POWER switch (14)

Press this switch to turn the printer on or off.

JPaper scrap tray (6)

A margin of about 10mm is put between the current printout and the next printout from the paper roll. This margin of paper is cut off and ejected into the paper scrap tray.

KPaper Output Slot

Printed pages are output from the printer here.

LSCSI Connectors (50-pin, half pitch) (7, 8) Connect the computer used to control the printer and connect other SCSI devices with SCSI cables to one of these connectors. The second connector is used as a pass-through connector when daisy chaining with other SCSI devices. If only one of the SCSI connectors on the printer is used, the internal terminator should be enabled by changing the appropriate DIP switch setting, see “DIP Switch Settings” (page 7).

MDIP Switch (7, 8)

Determines the SCSI device ID number of the printer, and sets the internal terminator on or off. See “DIP Switch Settings” (page 7).

N- AC IN (Power Source) Connector (8) Connect the supplied power cord here.

Introduction

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