Star Micronics FR-15, FR-10 manual FormsMenu, Skipover Perforation, Autocr Linesper Inch Pagelength

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FormsMenu

Thismenuallowsyouto setvariousoptionsassociatedwithpaperhandling:

SHORTTEAROFF Whenusingfanfold(continuous) paper, this ShortTear Off option allows you to tear off one sheet of paper withouthavingto ejectthewholeof thefollowingsheet. Ifthisoptionis set[ON*],whenthepaperreachesthetop of the form, it will automaticallybe advanceda little, allowingyouto tearoff thepapereasily.Set thisoption to IOFFIif Youdo not wantto use it.

SKIPOVER PERFORATION

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LINESPER INCH

PAGELENGTH

When usingfanfold(continuous)paper, you may wish printingto stopa littlebeforethe bottomof each shee~ andstartprintingaLittleafterthebegimingof thenext(in otherwords,skippingoverrheperforation)Thisisuseful. if youwantto produceprogramlistings,etc. Thiscanbe enabledby settingthisoption[ONI,or, if usingsoftware whichperformsthisfunctionautomatically,it canbe set [OFF].

If sel [ONI,this willexpandall receivedcarriagereturn codesto a line feed and carriagereturnpair. However, this maybe set [OFF*Iif yoursoftwaredemandsit.

If set [ON*],this functionwill expandall receivedline feedcodesto a carriagereturnand line-feedpair. How- ever, this may be set [OFF] if you do not want to be expanded.

Thissetsthenumberof linesperverticalinchwhichwill be printedto [3 LPI], [4 LPI], [6 LPI*]or [8 LPI].

Thepagelengthmaybesetbymeansof theDIPswitches [DIP-SW*](see Chapter5 for details)or to any of the followinglengths(in inches):[31,[3.51,[41,[5.51,[61, [7],[8],[8.5],[11.7]or [14]. A4 paper is equivalentto 11.7inches,whilethe DIP switchsettingsof 11 inches and12incheswillnormallybe used for fanfoldpaper.

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