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Press and hold down both the and the
Turn on the printer.
After afew seconds. release the buttons.
The display will show “d/?”(dot adjustment). The
printer will then print something like
** * DOT ADJUSTMENT SETTING * * *
LQ -3 :1’1’1’1’1’11’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’1’
The number before the vertical bars may not be “-3”,
but whatever its value, it will be also shown in the
display: “After the bars have been printed, the
printer will feed the paper so that you can see the
printout clearly.
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Each vertical bar is actually two bars. You can use
the [button to move the bottom row of bars
to the left, and the button to move them
to the right.
** * DOT ADJUSTMENT SETTING * * *
LQ -3 :,~,,~,~,~,~,~,~,,~&~%~@~,&,~&d~%~a,
~@ET/EJEcTl [PAPER FEED
Before printing the test pattern again, the printer will
reverse-feed the paper. After printing the pattern, the
printer will feed the paper up for you to see it clearly.
In the illustration above, you would want to move the
bottom row to the right, so pressing the
button will give you the following printout:
*** DOT ADJUSTMENT SETTING * * *
LQ -2 :/1’II////I/////I///I/ /
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