iSys V8.5e Thermal Printer User Manual

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4.3

CONTROL PANEL FUNCTIONS AND SETTINGS

See Table 4-2 for default settings and organization.

Changing function settings

For easy reference in this section, the buttons are referred to as numbers 1, 2, and 3, from top to bottom. (See

Table 4-1 for button labels and functions.)

1. Press Button 1 to turn the plotter offline. Settings can only be changed while the plotter is offline. The green

ONLINE status light turns off and the display will show: —— indicating offline status.

2. Press Button 3 to scroll through the menus.

3. For each menu item, press Button 1 or 2 (up or down arrows) until the desired setting (or sub menu item) is

shown in the display for that menu.

4. Save the setting by pressing

and holding

Button 3 (MENU/SAVE) Display shows:

NOTE: Press and hold the MENU/SAVE button immediately after the desired function setting is displayed.

Advancing through the menu without doing so will not save your changes.

5. The display will then show the offline display: ——. Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each function setting.

6. Press button 1 to return to ONLINE mode. Display will be blank and online LED will be illuminated.

Default Settings

To restore the default settings of the plotter, press and hold the menu button (button 3) while powering the plotter
on. The display will briefly show “dF” during the boot up sequence, indicating that the default menu items have

been loaded.

Test plot

This function produces approximately six inches of plot in a checkerboard and dither pattern in Bimodal mode.

Generating a test plot while the plotter is set to grayscale mode will result in a grayscale plot corresponding to the

number of gray levels selected at the time. This enables the user to verify that the plotter is creating a plot image,

feeding the paper correctly, and that contrast levels and media settings are acceptable. The test plot will use the

current menu settings to generate the image.

1. Press Button 1 to put the plotter into OFFLINE mode.
2. Press Button 3 once. “tP” is displayed.

3. Press and hold Button 3 until the display flashes: The test plot will be generated.

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