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Delta User’s Manual

L.F. button - stands for “Line Feed.” When you’re off-line this allows you to advance the paper one line at a time. If you hold the button down, you’ll get multiple line feeds, one after the other.

Around the backside are some important components and connectors. From right to left, they are:

Figure 1-3. Around on the back of Delta you’ll find the interface connectors.

 

 

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DIP switches - primarily, these switches are used in interfac-

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ing the Delta printer to your particular brand of computer. See the

appendix for directions on doing this.

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Parallel interface connector - the place where you “hook

 

up” your computer to the Delta so they are “interfacing” and thus

 

able to communicate with each other.

 

Serial interface connector - this interface allows you to con-

 

nect Delta with a computer using serial communications.

 

Power cord - you know what it is for, don’t you? It furnishes

 

the electrical power to run the printer.

 

Paper Selection and Loading

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That’s it for components and connectors. The next thing we’ll

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look at is the variety of papers available for Delta, and how to load

 

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Star Micronics Delta user manual Paper Selection and Loading, Parallel interface connector the place where you hook