Lexmark 2500 User Manual
Forms printer 2500 series, User's guide

Forms Printer 2500 Series
User's Guide
July 2007
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Safety information
- Learning about the printer
- Using the control panel
- Understanding the control panel buttons
- Understanding the control panel lights
- Setting the printer online or offline
- Advancing paper
- Using the Load/Unload function
- Locking and unlocking the control panel
- Selecting a Tractor mode
- Selecting and locking a font
- Disabling Font Lock
- Selecting and locking a pitch
- Disabling Pitch Lock
- Loading paper
- Paper and specialty media guide
- Changing tractor positions
- Understanding Setup mode and menu options
- Maintaining the printer
- Administrative support
- Troubleshooting
- Checking an unresponsive printer
- Testing the printer
- Checking the printer status
- Adjusting character (bidirectional) alignment
- Solving printing problems
- Printer test works, but the printer does not print when attached to the computer
- Printer is noisy
- Printer sounds like it is printing, but does not print
- Printer alarm sounds
- Printer goes to the Tear Off position before the print job finishes
- Buttons do not work, except for Start/Stop, FormFeed, Tear Off and Load/Unload
- Printer power switch is on, but the power light is off
- Left margin moves to the right during printing
- Incorrect line length; lines do not start at the left margin
- Printer speed slows
- Incorrect characters print, left margin changes, or printing stops
- Printing continues beyond the edges of the continuous forms
- Selected font or pitch is not printing or is changing
- Solving paper feed problems
- Paper is jammed in the printer
- Paper is jammed in the Auto Sheet Feeder
- Paper fed in the Auto Sheet Feeder jams at the printer entrance
- Paper jam in the Tractor 2 Feeder
- Printer does not feed paper
- Printer does not feed from the optional Tractor 2 Feeder
- Printer does not feed from the Auto Sheet Feeder
- The optional Tractor 2 Feeder positions paper at incorrect Top-Of-Form position
- The Auto Sheet Feeder feeds paper at an incorrect rate
- The Auto Sheet Feeder places paper at the wrong Top-Of-Form position
- Paper fed from the Auto Sheet Feeder is skewed
- The Auto Sheet Feeder feeds multiple sheets
- Solving print quality problems
- Contacting Customer Support
- Notices
- Edition notice
- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT RIGHTS
- Trademarks
- Conventions
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) compliance information statement
- European Community (EC) directives conformity
- Noise emission levels
- Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive
- ENERGY STAR
- Power consumption
- Statement of Limited Warranty
- Index