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Saving a macro – Star Micronics LC-100+ User Manual

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Control Panel Operations

After you have the paper at the position you want, hold down

ON LINE

and press

PAPER FEED

to make the current print head position the new

auto load position. The printer will beep twice to indicate that the new auto
load position is set.

To clear the new auto load position and return to the one that you set
previously (using the above procedure), press

ON LINE

. To clear the

currently set auto load position and return to the position specified by the
EDS Mode (page 29), hold down

ON LINE

and press

FONT

.

Note:

The auto load position you set remains in effect until you turn the printer off. If
you want to save the auto load position in memory, press PITCH instead of
PAPER FEED while holding down ON LINE in the above step.

Saving a macro

Normally, any settings you make on the control panel are cleared when you turn
the printer off. Use the following procedure to save the current control panel
settings so that they are used whenever you turn the printer on.

Make the control panel settings you want.

Use

ON LINE

to put the printer off-line (

ON LINE

indicator is not lit).

Hold down

FONT

and then

PITCH

. Keep both buttons held down until the

printer beeps twice.
The font setting indicator will change to the next font when you press

FONT

, but this procedure saves the font setting that was shown by the

indicator before you pressed

FONT

.

This procedure saves the following settings.

• Current font and pitch settings

• Current print color

• Quiet mode status
These items can be set separately for the Standard mode and the IBM mode.

To clear saved control panel settings repeat the above procedure, but keep

FONT

and

PITCH

depressed after the printer beeps twice. Soon the printer

will beep again three times to indicate that the saved control panel settings
have been cleared.

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