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Printing while threading – IBM INFO PRINT 3000 User Manual

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Printing While Threading

1.

SELECT

the Yes option within the Print While Threading? field.

2.

SELECT

the Start pushbutton.

This informs the control unit to begin the thread/align process.

3.

If no forms were damaged and there is enough slack in the forms, splice the

forms back together.
Go to step 5.

4.

If forms must be removed or there is not enough slack to splice the forms

back together, use the Feed Forms or Printer 1 Feed Page pushbuttons to

advance the forms through Printer 1 enough to splice the forms together. The

first selection of either the Feed Forms or the Printer 1 Feed Page pushbutton

does the following:

a.

This prints a solid alignment mark after the leading edge on a page in

Printer 1, which is designated as an alignment page.
A one-bar or two-bar pattern is also printed on the alignment page. The

bar shows whether Side 1 or Side 2 of the form is being printed on Printer

1.
This prints a dashed alignment mark after the leading edge of the page.

b.

Feeds a fixed length of forms through Printer 1 either the length set in the

Form Feed Length

printer configuration item if you select the Feed Forms

pushbutton or the length of one page according to the page length

definition for the Form Name currently loaded if you select the Printer 1

Feed Page

pushbutton.

c.

Prints pages for the queued job on Printer 1, starting on the page following

the alignment page. Printer 2 processes blank pages.

5.

SELECT

the Forms are Connected pushbutton.

6.

SELECT

the Feed to Align pushbutton on the Thread/Align Forms window.

Pages for the queued job are printed on Printer 1, starting on the page

following the alignment page. Printer 2 processes blank pages.

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