●Thefinal“TechnicalSupplement”containingthecommandandcharac-
terreferencetables willprobablyget thumbedthemost.
Conventions
Incidentally,oneofthoseTechnicalSupplementtablessuggestsacoupleof
typographicconventionswe’lluse.Baseten(decimal)numberswillgener-
allybe used here;if we have to use base sixteennumbers(hexadecimal)
we’llexpresslysay so.
Andsecond,thelowercaseLispracticallyidenticaltothenumberone(1vcr-
sus1). BecauselowercaseLisused in manycommanddescriptions,we’ll
usethe charactert’toavoidconfusion.
The Star LaserPrinter 8Operations Manual
ThismanualisthecompaniontotheStarLaserPrinter8OperationsManual
thatcamewith yourprinter. Alaserprinteris afairlycomplextool thatre-
quirescareanddelicatehandling.So touse thisApplicationsManualbest,
makesure youunderstandthat OperationsManualfirst.
Your OperationsManual holdsessential informationabout the Lascr-
Pnnter,8,such ashow to:
●unpackand setup your laserprinter,
●connecttheStarLaserPrinter8toyourcomputer’sserialorparallelport,
●iinkthe LaserPrinter8intoanetworkof severalcomputers,
●configuretheLaserPrinter8toyourneeds (wilhvanablcssuch aspaper
sizeand speedof data transfer),
●loadpaper andthe tonercartridge,
●operatethepanel switchesanddisplay,
●runthe LaserPrinter8self-test,
●lookafter yourprinterto keep it in peakcondition.