User manual EPSON FX-870

[. . . ] User's Guide Update Please update your User's Guide with the following information. These page-length settings have been added to your printer: 5. 5, 7, 17, 14, 8, 6, 4, 3. 5, and 3 inches. See "Default-Setting Mode" in Chapter 3 for the groups of available printer features. The page length feature has been deleted from Group 1 and now appears in a new group (Group 1 Extension). [. . . ] Press the PAUSE/TEAR OFF button to move the tear-off position down on the page, or press the PAPER FEED button to move the tear-off position up on the page. The printer remembers the new tear-off position even after you turn off the printer. When you begin printing, the printer automatically feeds the paper back to the loading position and begins printing. 3. 4. 5. Note: l The printer has a minimum and maximum tear-off position. If you try to advance the loading position beyond the limits, the printer beeps and the paper stops moving. l When the paper reaches the factory-set tear-off position, the printer beeps and paper feeding pauses briefly. Use the factory setting as a reference point when you adjust the tearoff position. 3-20 Using the Printer Character Fonts Your printer has two draft fonts (normal and high-speed) and two Near Letter Quality (NLQ) fonts (Epson Roman and Epson Sans Serif). You can select these through application software and the control panel. The draft fonts are ideal for preliminary work. Use the defaultsetting mode (explained earlier in this chapter) to choose between normal and high-speed draft. Near Letter Quality takes a little longer to print but produces fullyformed characters suitable for most documentation requirements. From the control panel you can select normal or condensed versions of all the fonts. Condensed characters are 60 percent as wide as normal characters. Use the FONT button and the FONT and CONDENSED lights to select the font you want. Each time you press the FONT button, the selection changes and the FONT and CONDENSED lights come on (m >, go off (u), or blink ( `I ) to indicate the current selection. Font Draft Draft Condensed Roman Roman Condensed Sans Serif Sans Serif Condensed m on FONT Light 0 c7 m m `I " CONDENSED Light 0 m 0 m 0 m 0 off `) blinking Note: The settings you select from the control panel remain in effect even after YOU turn off the printer. Using the Printer 3-21 Character Fonts Because some application programs control character fonts and because program commands often override panel settings, use your application program's print options instead of the control panel to select character fonts if possible. If the fonts you select with the panel are not the fonts that are printed, check your application program's user's manual for instructions on selecting character fonts. Here are sample characters for each font. Normal Draft nF'C1FGTUVWXYZ [ '\ 1"' _, _' abcdefghi j k Imnapqrstuvwxyz c "-?@J, BC:I. J$J---Gt-I !"+I$%&' ( ) t-l" ~ --. 1: J k: Normal Draft condensed !"i~'i. t'~)tt, -. /0123456789:;~=~?@MICDEF6HIJKLtlN OPQRSTUV#XYZ[\lA_'abcdefghijklanopqrstuv~xyz~!l -. - High-Speed Draft / j 11 +;;[:, :!. ;;:8. : . , , , / `i:, :l, 2:~~`~. !~~, 8';:/ti~f~~ :: I; . ::::::::::. `;`(~!n~~[(:;r>II1:I:~(:~I. . I:I:, :rI( I:)i:::i:lli:;. :iI!`T'i, , J iji!. J)zx'f:. z: 1:: Y, ::I i. `. , , , , ' . 3 I:) cd cc> T q 1-1 :i. uv w x y z Epson Roman !"#$%&`()a+, -. /0123456789:;<=>?OABCDEFGHIJK , OPQRSTUVWKYZC\l-- ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z l Epson Roman condensed !"#$%k'()tt, -. /0123456789:;<r, ?eABCDI(PGHIJKLHN OPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^-`abcdefghijklnnopqrstuwxyzI 11 EpsonSan Serif . !"#8%&+$+, --. /0123456789:;<=>?WBCDEFGHIJK DPC?RSTUVWXYZ[\]^-' a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Epson San Serif condensed 3-22 Using the Printer Data Dump Mode Data dump mode is a special feature that allows experienced users to find the cause of communication problems between the printer and application programs. [. . . ] printable area The area of a page on which the printer can print. It is smaller than the physical size of the page due to margins. proportional printing Printing in which the width of the character varies from character to character. For example, a capital W receives much more space than a lowercase i. [. . . ]