Star Micronics LC-8021 manual Clearing the printer’s buffer, Initializing the printer

18Control 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 MULTI-PARTand 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.

❏Use ON LINE to take the printer off line (ON LINE indicator is not lit).

❏Hold down MULTI-PARTand 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.

Entering the Multi-part Mode

When the printer is in the Multi-part Mode, the print head prints with greater impact. It should be noted, however, that printing in the Multi-part Mode also reduces the life of the print head. Because of this, you should use the Multi-part Mode only for printing on four or five-ply paper. Return to the normal mode for printing on one to three-ply paper.

Use the following procedure to enter the Multi-part Mode

❏Use ON LINE to take the printer off line (ON LINE indicator is not lit).

❏Press MULTI-PARTbutton. The MULTI-PARTindicator will lit to indicate to enter multi-part mode.