Pioneer Impact Printer DFX-8500 - Manual (Page 6)

EPSON DFX-8500
6 - EPSON DFX-8500 5/98
c CAUTION:
Never press the Tear Off button when labels are loaded in the
printer. Use the LF/FF Load button to feed the printed labels to
a point where they can be torn off
.
c CAUTION:
When labels are loaded, use only the top Micro Feed button.
Never feed labels backward through the printer.
c CAUTION:
Never use the Front/Rear button when labels are loaded in the
printer. Always tear off any printed pages or excess paper so
you don't feed more than one page backward through the
printer.
Pitch Selects the characters per inch for
printing. Press the button until the light
appears next to the desired pitch. (Your
software setting overrides this setting.)
Copy Lets you print the document darker. This
button is available in SuperDraft and
Draft mode only and is disabled if you
use the status monitor utility and select a
paper number from 1 to 8.
TOF
(Top of Form) When the top cover is open, lets you
enter and exit the top-of-form mode to
adjust the top-of-form position.
If your printing begins too high or low on
the page, you can reset the top-of-form
position by entering top-of-form mode
and using micro feed to adjust the
position. The printer remembers this new
top-of-form position even after it is
turned off, reset, or initialized. Also, the
printer remembers separate top-of-form
positions for the front and rear tractors.
Tear Off Feeds the paper to the printer’s tear-off
edge and puts the printer in tear-off
mode.
If the perforation on your paper does not
align exactly with the printer’s tear-off
edge, use the
Micro Feed buttons to
adjust the tear-off position.
This button can also be used to run the
printer’s NLQ self test.
LF/FF Load LF advances paper one line at a time. To
feed your paper forward one line, press
this button once.
FF advances continuous paper to the top
of the next page. Press and hold the
button for about one second.
Load loads paper on the push tractor of
the selected paper path when no paper is
currently loaded.
This button can also be used to run the
draft self test.
Micro Feed These two buttons advance or reverse the
loaded paper in 1/216-inch increments.
The top button advances the paper and
the bottom button reverses it. You can
use these buttons to adjust the top-of-
form, tear-off, and printing positions.
To reset the top-of-form position, press
the
TOF button to enter top-of-form
mode. Then use the Micro Feed buttons
to move the paper to the desired position.
To reset the tear-off position, press the
Tear Off button to enter tear-off mode
and feed the paper to the tear-off
position. Then use the
Micro Feed
buttons to move the paper to the desired
position.
To adjust the printing position, press
either
Micro Feed button to advance or
reverse the paper to the desired position.
Pause Press to temporarily stop printing. Press
again to resume printing.
Hold down for at least 3 seconds to reset
the printer’s control panel settings.
Tractor Select
Front/Rear Selects the front or rear tractor. If you
have been using paper loaded on one
tractor, first remove the printed output
before pressing this button to switch the
tractor. When you switch between
tractors, the paper already loaded in the
printer is fed backward to the standby
position, and the paper on the newly
selected tractor is loaded.