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SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS

Several additional functions can be achieved by pressing the control panel buttons in combinations.

If you am using single sheets, this operation ejects the current page. If you are using fanfold forms, it feeds to the top of the next page.

1.Press the I ON LINE 1 button to set the printer off-line.

2.Press the I PAPER FEED I button and hold it down. The printer will start performing successive line feeds.

3.While holding the I PAPER FEED I buttondownpressthe I ON LINE I

button, then release both buttons at the same time. The printer will --

smoothly eject the current page.

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Top of form

When you power on the printer, the top-of-form position is automatically set to the current position. If this is not where you want the top of the page to be, you can change the top-of-form position as follows:

1.Press the I ON LINE I button to set the printer off-line.

2.Move the paper to the desired top-of-form position by pressing the I PAPER FEED I button, or by performing a forward or reverse micro-feed.

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XR-1520, XR-1020 specifications

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