Printer beep tones

The printer beeps both to warn you that something is wrong and to indicate various aspects of normal opera- tion, for example, to indicate that a particular setting or selection has just been made. The table below gives a full list of printer beeps and their meanings

Tone sequence

Meaning

Single tone lasting 2 seconds

Single tone lasting several seconds

Four short tones, repeated twice

Single short tone

The printer has detected an error condition. Switch the printer off and on again.

The printer has detected an error condition. Switch the printer off and on again.

The printer is out of paper

One of the following:

Vertical alignment mode has been selected

Zoom resolution has been set to 50~0

Quiet mode has been selected

Electronic DIP Switch mode has been selected

Two short tones

One of the following:

 

Macro (saved settings) mode has been selected

 

Zoom resolution has been set to 67Y0

 

Quiet mode has been cancelled

Three short torfes

Macro (saved settings) mode has been cancelled

Single quarter tone

One of the following:

 

Hexadecimal dump mode has been selected

 

.

Prevention of software font selection has been

 

 

selected

 

Zoom resolution has been set to 10OYO(i.e.

 

 

zoom is canceled).

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Star Micronics NX-2450 manual Printer beep tones