7.5STATUS MESSAGES

Status messages are low priority messages that either indicate normal conditions or provide warnings that need not be acted upon immediately. These conditions should not occur when the printer is on-line. If they do, however, the alarm will beep find the printer will go oi’f-line. For some conditions however, there is the possibility ofa condi(ion occurring when the printer is on-line. If it does, the alarm will not sound and the printer will remain on-line.

MessageMeaning

PRINTERW, ARML:P printer is warming LIp but service call not neces-

 

sary

ENGINE TEST

~ operatot has initiateda

 

test of the printing

ENGINE RESET

engineis being reset

REINITIALIZE

controller soft ini[ializa-

 

tion

STATUS SHEET

status sheet pt”intout

PRINTING

 

FONT LIST

font list printout

PRINTING

 

TEST P~GE

sample pa~e printout

PRINTING

 

REPRINTLOSTPGS

retransmission of lost

 

sheets

PRINTER READY

all conditi(msnormaland

 

pl”operbut printc?t”is not

 

opertition; no unused

 

data incontrollet”c)tges”-pa

 

in printing

PRINTER ACTIVE all conditions mmml and proper: printer is in op- eration: unuse~l dwl in controller or pages in

printing

Action

test in progress

OCC111”SW’tlell ( RESET-) is pressedoremul~t[ionischmyxi; may filsooccur whm printeris m-line if emull~ionis Chtingcci

OCCUI”SMhcn(~> ij held t’oratkust2butlessthtin-1winds

OCCLII”S whetl~T~ is held ~tleast4 sec(mdsin HPemul:l- tion ml TI’LIeIIIULgCmock

occur~whenC TESTO is held Jt Ie:istb SWMKISin I’rwlmdge mock

may occur ai’ter paper jan-

ming

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Star Micronics LS-5 EX, LS-5 TT operation manual Status Messages, Test of the printing

LS-5 TT, LS-5 EX specifications

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