Clearing the printer’s buffer 23
Clearing the printer’s buffer
When the printer receives data from a computer, it temporarily stores it in a
memory called a buffer. If you stop a printing job partway through, there is the
chance that some data will remain in the buffer. The following procedure clears
the printer’s buffer by deleting any data that might be there.
❏Execute the necessary command in the program you are using to stop the
print job.
Important!
Be sure to stop the print job before taking the printer off line. Otherwise, the
print job will resume from where you interrupted it when you put the printer
back on-line.
❏Use ON LINE to take the printer off line (ON LINE indicator is not lit).
❏Hold down FONT and then ON LINE. Keep both buttons held down until
the printer beeps once, which indicates that the buffer is cleared.
Initializing the printer
The following procedure initializes the printer to its power-on settings. If you
have control panel settings stored in memory, this procedure sets up the printer
using them.
❏Use ON LINE to take the printer off line (ON LINE indicator is not lit).
❏Hold down FONT and then ON LINE. Keep both buttons held down until
the printer beeps once (indicating the printer buffer is cleared) and then
beeps again three times, which indicates that the printer is reset.