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your computer cable.

SLOTS FOR FONT CARTRIDGES - These are the two openings at the bottom right of the front of the printer. Insert- ing an optional font cartridge pushes the small door up out of the way and exposes a connector which accepts the cartridge.

nControls and indicators

Now let’s go over the controls and indicators of the printer, starting with the control panel on the right. There are twelve in- dicators and seven keys on the control panel.

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[lo inch type1

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Figure 2-2. The control panel.

POWER INDICATOR - Glows green when the power is on. PAPER EMPTY INDICATOR - Glows red when the printer runs out of paper and when certain printer malfunctions occur.

FORM LENGTH SWITCH - Tells the printer how long the pages are.

TYPE STYLE INDICATORS - Glows green to indicate the character set in use as shown below (set by the Type Style key or the DIP switch).

Indicator to glow Type Style

 

 

 

 

 

None

 

Roman

Internal

Characters

 

 

Italic

 

Italic

Internal

 

Characters

 

 

Fl

 

 

Roman

Font

1

Characters

 

 

Fl

and

Italic

Italic

Font

1 Characters

 

 

F2

 

 

Roman

Font

2 Characters

(15” type

only)

F2

and

Italic

Italic

Font

2 Characters

(15” type

only)

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Star Micronics NB24-10/15 user manual Italic Font Characters Type, Control panel