Star Micronics LC24-300 user manual Electronic DIP switches

c The display will now show “-I?”.The bars are more

aligned now. Keep using thebutton and

[button until the two rows are aligned.

You have now aligned the printer in Letter Quality (LQ)

mode. By pressing the [~] button, you can now cor- rect the dot alignment of the draft mode.

There are five modes where the dot alignment may need to be corrected: LQ, DRAFT, DRAFT COND (condensed), GRAPHICS A and GRAPHICS B. Cycle around these

modes by pressing [~] (“cycling” here means that if you are in the last mode; GRAPHICS B, and you press

[~], the printer will go back to LQ). The different modes may have different alignments because of the way that the printer’s electronics drive the moving parts.

. When you have adjusted all the dot alignments, exit from the mode by pressing [TR15iT]The. printer will

print “*** END ***” and go into r mode.

. Eject the paper and continue with normal printing.

Electronic DIP switches

Conventional printers have a set of small 2-way switches (Dual In-line Package, hence “DIP”) which you use to set up various features of the printer which you want to use every time you turn on the printer. The list of settings that you can change is given on page 55.

Although the LC24-300 Colour has a Macro function to allow you to set up some of these “power-on default set- tings”, (see “Saving Macros” on page 42). However, when it comes to DIP switches, it is not a conventional printer

. it makes your life much easier.

Instead of poking around with small switches and a screwdriver, all “switch” settings are made from the front panel – hence “Electronic DIP switches”. Here’s how they work:

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