Micro Feed

The Micro Feed facility is useful if you wish to align the paper exactly. It feeds the paper forwards or backwards in 1/216th inch increments.

To use this feature, put the printer off-line (using the :IKLIF~button).

Then press the (ONLINE)5~~ button, and either the /p*pEE; button (to feed the paper forwards), or the EFEG3 button (to feed the paper backwards).

Holding down these buttons continuously will continue to feed the paper for- wards or backwards in small increments.

BUFFER CLEAR/RESET

It is possible to clear the buffer of the printer or to return it to its power-on status by using the front panel buttons without having to turn the power off and on. To do this, put the printer off-line (press the OEM button), and then

press the CON button again. Before releasing the -ON button, hold down the :~OFITbutton. Releasing the :%F; button within two seconds of holding it down (before releasing the 1C%!C button) will clear the data in the buffer. Releasing the button after two seconds (again, before releasing

fie (-FLlNf~- ‘1 button) will reset the printer back to the settings at power-on.

TEST AND MAINTENANCE SETTINGS

The printer is equipped with a number of functions to assist testing and main- tenance. Since it is anticipated that they will not be used very often, they are not described here, but in Chapter 6.

However, briefly, they are:

A text test print mode

A short test print mode

A long test print mode

A hexadecimal dump mode

A bidirectional print test

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XR-1000, XR-1500 specifications

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