Star Micronics LC-7211 user manual Clearing the printer’s buffer, Initializing the printer

22Control Panel Operations

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.