Chapter 2

CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS

The control panel buttons can be pressed individually to perform the opera- tions indicated by their names. Other functions can be achieved by holding these buttons down when you turn the printer’s power on, or by pressing the control panel buttons in combination.

This chapter explains all the button and indicator functions.

Pause printing

Feed paper (fast and slow, forward and reverse)

Park fanfold forms

9 Set the top-of-form position

Select the print pitch

Select a font

Print test patterns

Prevent software from changing the panel pitch and font selections

Print a hexadecimal dump

. Clear the printer’s buffer

Change the print color (color printer only)

Store macro definition

BUTTONS AND INDICATORS

The printer is equipped with five buttons on the control panel. From left to

right they are,(W) and (PITCH)(smaller buttons), and ( SEp’#p ? (PAPER FEED), and ( ON LINE )(larger buttons).

The following is a brief guide to the buttons and indicators on the control panel.

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Star Micronics NX-2420 user manual Control Panel Operations

NX-2420 specifications

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