Epson 5000 - Manual (Page 82)

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:
Never use the tear-of feature to reverse feed labels; they
may come off their backing and jam the printer.
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.
Using the Printer 3-17