Star Micronics LC-8521 - Manual (Page 23)

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Parking fanfold paper
It is not necessary to remove fanfold paper currently loaded in the printer in
order to print on cut-sheet paper fed by hand. Instead, simply use the following
procedure to park the fanfold paper.
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Tear off the paper at a perforation so there is no more than half a page
sticking out of the front cover of the printer.
If necessary, you can press the control panel’s
ON LINE button to put the
printer off-line. Then use the PAPER FEED button to feed the paper until
a perforation is just past the front cover.
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Press the control panel’s ON LINE button to put the printer on-line.
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Press the control panel’s PARK/SET/EJECT button. The printer
automatically reverse feeds the fanfold paper until it is no longer in contact
with the platen, which is indicated by the printer beeping a number of
times. Also, the control panel’s
POWER indicator starts to flash because
paper is not loaded.
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Set the release lever on the front of the printer to the cut-sheet position.
The paper is now parked, and you can load cut-sheet paper into the printer
using the procedures under “Manual sheet feeding” on page 60.
Unparking fanfold paper
After you are finished printing on cut-sheet paper, use the following procedure
to unpark fanfold paper and make it available for printing.
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If any cut-sheet paper is still in the printer, put the printer on-line and then
press the control panel’s
PAPER FEED button to eject it.
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Check to make sure the printer is off-line.
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Set the release lever on the front of the printer to the fanfold position.
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Press the control panel’s PARK/SET/EJECT button. The printer
automatically feeds the fanfold paper back into position, ready for printing.
Using the tear-off function
The following procedure makes it easy to tear off fanfold paper without
disturbing the current position of the paper.
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Check to make sure that the printer is on-line.
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Press the control panel’s PARK/SET/EJECT button.
The printer feeds the perforation of the fanfold paper to the tear-off edge of
the printer cover.