Epson DFX-8500 User Manual - Page 78

Tearing Off the Printed Pages After you finish 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 3 between documents. You can use the tear-off feature in two ways: by turning on DIP switch 3-1 to select automatic tear-off mode, or by pressing the Tear Off button on the control panel. (See Chapter 4 for information on changing DIP switch settings.) 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. The printer remembers this new tear-off position. c Caution: Never use the tear-off feature to reverse feed labels, overlapping multi-part forms, continuous forms with labels, or overlapping multi-part forms with labels. Do not use the tear-off feature when the optional pull tractor is installed or when using the paper memory feature (described in Chapter 4). Tear-off mode When you select tear-off mode with DIP switch 3-1, 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. Paper Handling 3-21