Epson FX-870 Product Information Guide - Page 6

FX-870/1170 Symbol set Characters defined in the following symbol set can be printed using the ESC \ (characters) or ESC * (one character) software command. Control Panel The control panel has four buttons and three lights for simple control of basic printer operations. READY z OPERATE Lights READY (green) On when the OPERATE button is on and power is supplied. This light blinks when the printer is paused, in tear-off mode, out of paper, or the print head is overheated. FONT (green) Shows which font is selected. This light is off for draft, on for NLQ Roman, and blinks for NLQ Sans Serif font. CONDENSED (green) On for condensed printing and off for normal printing. Buttons OPERATE Turns the printer on or off. The printer is off when the button is out and on when the button is in. PAUSE/TEAR OFF Press this button to stop printing temporarily. Press it again to resume printing. When you have finished printing on continuous paper, press this button once to advance paper to the tear-off position. Press it again to feed the paper backward to the loading position. PAPER FEED Press this button briefly to advance paper line by line. Hold it down to advance continuous paper to the next top-of-form (TOF) position. When the printer is out of paper, press this button to load continuous paper from the paper-park position or a single sheet from the optional cut-sheet feeder. FONT Press this button to select a font (draft, Epson Roman, or Epson Sans Serif). This button also selects the normal or condensed mode for these fonts. ALT The FONT button also functions as the ALT button. Hold it down while pressing another button for the following functions: U Eject (Hold down ALT and press PAPER FEED.) If the paper-release lever is in the single-sheet position, paper is ejected. If the paper-release lever is in the front- or rear-tractor position, paper moves back to the paper-park position. CI Entering the Micro-feed mode (Hold down ALT and press PAUSE/TEAR OFF when paper is already loaded in the printer.) Micro feed allows you to move the paper forward or backward in 2/216-inch increments to adjust the loading and tear-off positions. Ll Bin select (Hold down ALT and press PAUSE/TEAR OFF when the printer is out of paper.) When you use the optional double-bin cut-sheet feeder, you can select the bin before loading paper. Other control-panel features Default setting mode: Self test: Hold down the PAPER FEED button while you turn on the printer to perform the self test. The self test lets you see that your printer is operating properly and provides a printout of the current default settings. Data dump: Hold down the PAUSE button while you turn on the printer to enter the data dump mode. This mode allows advanced users to find the cause of communication problems between the printer and the computer. FX-870/1170-6 10/13/92 9-Pin Printers