Epson 5000/5500 - Manual (Page 69)

Tear Off
After you have finished printing, you can use the tear-off feature to
advance continuous paper
on the
push tractor to the tear-off edge
of the printer. You can then easily tear off printed sheets. When
you resume printing, the printer automatically feeds paper back to
the loading position.
This feature lets you save paper that would normally be lost
between documents.
You can use the tear-off feature in two ways: by turning on DIP
switch 2-3 to select automatic tear-off mode, or by pressing the
TEAR OFF button on the control panel.
If the perforation between pages is not aligned with the tear-off
edge, you can adjust the tear-off position using the micro-feed
feature.
CAUTION:
l
Never use the tear-off feature to reverse feed labels;
they may come off their backing and jam the printer.
l
Never reverse feed continuous paper when using the
pull tractor; the paper could come off
the pull tractor
and jam the printer.
Tear-off mode
When you select tear-off mode with DIP switch 2-3, the printer
automatically advances continuous paper to the tear-off position
when you finish printing.
The printer advances paper to the tear-off position only when the
printer receives a full page of data or
a form-feed command and no
more data is received for three seconds.
3-16 Using the Printer