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RELEASE LEVER - On top, near the left rear corner. You’ll be using this particular control often. What it does is control the pressure of the paper against the platen. Its position is crucial to feeding the different paper types - sprocket and single sheets. It has two settings: “Friction,” and “Tractor.” The Friction position is used for single sheet printing, and the Tractor position for sprocket paper. This will be fully explained in the section describing paper loading procedures.
PAPER BAIL - The bail is the movable bar that presses the paper against the platen during printing, and when moved away from the platen, allows the paper to reach its proper position during the loading operation.
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printing and tells you when the printer runs out of the paper. The
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the printer runs out of paper. The on line lamp also goes off, so you are ready to load more paper.
DIP SWITCHES - Primarily, these switches are used in inter- facing SD- 1O/l 5 to your particular brand of computer. But there are also switches to set the
PAPER SELECTION AND LOADING
That’s it for components and connectors. The next thing we’ll look at is the variety of papers available for
single sheets - whether
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Here’s a good place to spend a minute talking about the release
lever, which you’ll be using often. This lever controls the pressure of the paper against the platen. It has two settings - “F” and “T”.
The “F” setting stands for “Friction Feed” and this setting is always used when running single sheets. The “T” position stands
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