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For all other types of postprocessing devices and for all preprocessing devices, you

have to make enabled status changes in only the Configure Pre/Post procedure.

Using the Printer Stacker

If a postprocessing device is disabled or not yet configured, you may continue to

use boxed forms and the printer stacker. If the postprocessing device includes any

rollers, sensors, or any other hardware that would interfere with the operation of

the stacker, you must remove those interferences before you attempt to use the

stacker.

If the “Stacker Enabled” configuration item under the Configure Printer procedure

is set to Yes and there are no postprocessing devices installed and enabled on the

printer, the stacker table automatically rises when printing begins. To raise the

stacker table manually, press the stacker table UP key on the stacker control panel.

If a postprocessing device is installed on a printer and is enabled, the stacker table

is lowered and is prevented from moving upward. The pendulum and other

devices in the stacker are also prevented from operating.

In duplex mode, the stacker in Printer 1 is always disabled as if a postprocessing

device were installed and enabled.

Error and Jam Recovery

If the “Jam Recovery Type” configuration item setting under Configure Printer

allows it, printed pages before the top of the stacker are automatically reprinted

following the clearing of a forms jam. This applies only to jams that occur within

the printer. If a jam occurs anywhere past the printer stacker (that is, in the

postprocessing device), you can extend the number of pages automatically

reprinted by setting the “Jam Recovery Point” configuration item under the

Configure Printer

procedure. See “Recovering from a Forms Jam (Simplex

on page 127 for details of recovery from postprocessing device forms jams.

Following a forms jam, if a postprocessing device is particularly difficult to thread,

you should look for ways of splicing forms together between the printer and the

postprocessing device. For jam recovery in a postprocessing device, see

Adding Supplies

The printers normally display “Out of Supplies” messages when an internal usage

counter reaches a fixed threshold. You can defer taking action on most “Out of

Supplies” messages for some amount of additional usage. During that additional

usage time, the “Out of Supplies” message reappears each time an error condition

is detected or an end-of-forms is detected. When you use a roll-feed preprocessing

device, the printer checks the level of the supplies every 4000 feet after an initial

deferred “Out of Supplies” message was presented. The printer also displays an

“Out of Supplies” message at that time, if no end-of-forms or error condition is

detected.

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