Pfaff 1196 - 1199 Owner's Manual - Page 17

cE) 1199 A' I Before you start sewing on your new machine try sewing a piece of scrap material. Place the fabric under the sewing foot. Flick presser bar lifter 2 (see ill,) to its lowest position and the sewing foot is lowered onto the fabric. To prepare your machine for sewing check the following items even after you have become well acquainted with your Pfaff. • Touch on-off' button 1 to turn machine on. • Presser bar lifter 2 must be at its lowest position in order to ensure that the sewing foot is down. • Reverse-feed control 3 must be in its hori zontal position and must show the forward-reverse sewing symbol on its top surface. • For straight and zigzag sewing, the functi onal- stitch mechanism must be disen gaged. To make sure it is, push button 4 on the top cover of your machine. • The knob of Ultra-Matic stitch selector 5 must be positioned horizontally with tho buttonhole symbol located at th left. • The take-up lever must be at its hili,t point.