4-3Control Panel Button

The control panel button is used for many purposes, for example, to pause/resume job processing, reset printer parameters, print status page, or show the detail of fatal hardware errors.

The following table shows the effect of pressing the button under certain conditions and for certain durations.

Condition

Duration

Effect

 

 

 

Ready

Momentary

Takes the printer off-line (Pause/Off-

 

 

line status)

 

10 seconds

The printer will print a settings page

 

 

which shows printer parameters.

In use

Momentary

Takes the printer off-line (Pause/Off-

 

 

line status) and execution of any job

 

 

will be withheld until the button is

 

 

pressed again.

Power-up

At power up

Causes reset of non-volatile

 

until all LEDs

parameters to the factory default

 

double blink

values. The printer will first enter onto

 

 

the Diagnostic Processing status,

 

 

then all LEDs will start to double blink.

 

 

When this happens, release the button,

 

 

and LEDs will indicate the Initializing

 

 

status. Then, it goes to the Ready

 

 

status.

During printing

Held down at

Resets the printer. All printing jobs will

job

least 4

be canceled. Light will cycle through all

 

seconds

LEDs as it does during Initializing

 

 

status until button is released. Then,

 

 

the printer goes to the Ready status.

Pause/Off-line

Momentary

Resumes printing from pause; or go to

 

 

Ready status from Off-linestatus.

Printer functions associated with the Control Panel Button are not executed until you release the buttons.

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Xerox P12 manual 3Control Panel Button, Condition Duration Effect