User manual EPSON FX-890 PRODUCT INFORMATION

[. . . ] PRODUCT INFORMATION GUIDE EPSON UPDATE 6/11/03 This package provides a new dot matrix printer product section to be added to the EPSON Product Information Guide. The table of contents of this section is listed below. EPSON FX-890/FX-2190 TABLE OF CONTENTS User Replaceable Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EPSON FX-890/FX-2190 - 1 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EPSON FX-890/FX-2190 - 1 Printer Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] You may need to press the Tear Off/Bin button to advance the paper to the tear-off position. 1. (If the tractor is in a push position, press the Load/Eject button to advance continuous paper to the current top-of-form position. ) If necessary, lift up the printer cover so you can see the paper position. Hold down the Pause button for three seconds. The Pause light flashes and the printer enters Micro Adjust mode. Press the LF/FF D button to move the top-of-form position up on the page, or press the Load/Eject U button to move the top-of-form position down on the page. 2. Hold down the Pause button for about three seconds. The Pause light begins flashing and the printer enters Micro Adjust mode. Open the paper guide cover and press LF/FF D to feed paper backward, or Load/Eject U to feed paper forward, until the paper perforation is aligned with the tear-off edge of the printer cover. tear-off edge 5. Press the Pause button to exit Micro Adjust mode. Note: The printer has a minimum and a maximum top-of-form position. If you try to adjust it beyond these limits, the printer beeps and stops moving the paper. paper perforation When the paper reaches the default top-of-form position, the printer beeps and stops moving the paper briefly. You can use this setting as a reference point when adjusting the position. The top margin setting made in some software overrides the top-of-form position setting you make with the Micro Adjust function. Note: The printer has a minimum and a maximum tear-off position. If you try to adjust the position beyond these limits, the printer beeps and stops moving the paper. 6/03 EPSON FX-890/FX-2190 - 11 EPSON FX-890/FX-2190 Do not load continuous paper with labels from the rear Loading Special Papers Follow the guidelines in this section when loading single-sheet multipart forms, labels, envelopes, and postcards. paper slot. Because the rear paper path is curved, labels may come off their backing sheets inside the printer and cause a paper jam. Do not load paper that is curled or has been folded. Single-sheet Multipart Forms To load single-sheet multipart forms, use the front paper entry slot with the optional front paper guide or front sheet guide installed. Thick paper, such as multipart forms with five or six parts, requires a straight paper path to avoid paper jams. Make sure the forms do not exceed 0. 018 inch (0. 46 mm). front paper guide Removing Continuous Paper with Labels To prevent labels from peeling off the backing sheet and jamming the printer, follow these steps to remove continuous paper with labels from the printer: 1. Tear off the fresh supply of continuous labels at the perforation nearest the paper entry slot. Hold down the LF/FF button to eject the remaining labels from the printer. front sheet guide Caution: Never feed labels backward using the Load/Eject or Tear Off/Bin button. When fed backward, labels can easily come off the backing sheet and cause a paper jam. Envelopes Before loading envelopes, set the paper-thickness lever to position 5 (for thin envelopes) or 6 (for thick envelopes). You can feed envelopes one at a time using the paper guide, or you can load multiple envelopes using the optional high-capacity cut-sheet feeder (bin 1 of the double-bin cut-sheet feeder). Labels When printing on labels, use only the type of labels that are mounted on continuous backing sheets with sprocket holes for use with a tractor feeder. [. . . ] Nonprintable codes, such as control codes, are represented by dots. To turn off hex dump mode, press the Pause button, eject the printed page(s), and then turn off the printer. Caution: Do not turn off the printer while it is printing the hex dump. Always press the Pause button to stop printing and the Load/Eject button to eject the printed page before you turn off the printer. 3. To end the self test, press the Pause button to stop printing. [. . . ]