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Hand Controller Operation
The hand controller powers up when it is plugged into the i100. There are a few seconds delay
while it loads some parameters from the printer. The screen then displays the top menu option.
All menus are then selected using the ‘tick’ (
) key
The hand controller can be left plugged in or removed for normal operation. It can be used when
the Ethernet is connected, although care should be taken about using the hand controller at the
exact same time as the Ethernet port is being used by any control computer. The two
connections are shared and unpredictable results may occur if you try and use both at the same
time.
The hand controller operates in a similar way to most mobile phone menu selections. A ‘tick’
key (
) and a ‘backup’ key (
)
allow selection of an item on the screen, so scrolling until ‘Edit’
is shown on the screen then pressing
takes the operator into the Edit menu for example.
Pressing
takes the operator back out of the menu to where they started.
There are also two blank keys that are used when
an ‘either-or’ response is required, so for example
when the print delay menu is selected, the question
is asked ‘Forward or Reverse?’. The left blank key
is the first option, the right blank is the second, so
in this example pressing the left blank key will
answer ‘forward’, the right will answer ‘reverse’.
To minimise the number of keys and space, editing
uses the same principle as texting on a mobile
phone. For example, pressing the 1 key shows
‘ABC1abc’ in the top right of the screen. Pressing
the 1 key again within 0.75 seconds highlights ‘A’,
press again and ‘B’ is highlighted and so on until no
key is pressed with 0.75 seconds. The last
letter/number selected then drops into the
message. The ‘
C
’ key is used to delete any
mistakes. Pressing
C
deletes the last key entered.
To delete a specific character, use the arrow keys to navigate the flashing cursor to the right of
the character then press
C
to delete the character.
Generally, pressing the
key will save
anything you have typed; pressing the
key will
discard any changes.
The Quick Reference Sheets show all of the menus available.
