Star Micronics 8 Series manual Side margins

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ORIENTATIONPAPERSIZE @6 LINESilNCH n @ 8 LINES/tNCH

Portrait	Executive	60	80
Portrait	Letter	66	88
Portrait	A4	70	93
Portrait	Legat	84	112
Landscape	Executive	43	58
Landscape	Letter	51	68
Landscape	A4	49	66
Landscape	Legat	*	58

*Printinglandscapeson legalpaperis trickier.First set on portraitmode

andsendthecommand<ESC>&t’84Pandthenchangetheorientationto

landscape.

An example:Say you wantto manuallyprintlegal-sizepagesat eightlines per inch.The followingcommandscombinemanualfeedingwiththatpage length:

<ESC>&t’2h112P

If yourcommandspecifiesa pagelengthdifferentthanthepaperin thetray, theprinterwillgo offlineanddisplaya messageaskingfor thepropertray. After you changethe tray,pressthe ON LINE buttonto restartthe printer. It doesn’thurtto printshortpageson longpaper.If you inadvertentlyprint

aIegal:sizepageonto executiveor letter-sizepaper, the printerwill scroll that pageacrosstwo sheets.

Also,the PageLengthcommandputsall marginsbackto theirdefaults.So after you send it, check whetheryou have to send any of the following margin-settingcommands.

Side margins

Marginsettingsdefinethat part.ofthe pageon whichthe printercan print. You set side marginsto particularcoh.wv.zsThe. widthof a columndiffers for each font,dependingon its pitch.Ten-pitchCourier,for example,puts column30 threeinchesfromthe left edgeof the page (columnO).But 12- pitch PrestigeElite puts column30just two and a half inchesin.

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