About Your Printer’s Default Settings
Default Setting mode
Changing default settings
The default settings control many printer functions. While you can often set these functions through your software or printer
driver, you may sometimes need to change a default setting from the printer’s control panel using the Default Setting mode.
Default Setting mode
The following table lists the default settings and the options you can select in the Default Setting mode. The settings are
explained in detail after the table. For instructions on changing the default settings, see
Item
Setting / value
*1
Page length for tractor
3inch, 3.5inch, 4inch, 5.5inch, 6inch, 7inch, 8inch, 8.5inch,
11inch
, 70/6inch, 12inch, 14inch, 17inch
Skip over perforation
Off
, On
Auto tear off
Off
, On
Auto line feed
Off
, On
Print direction
Bi-D
, Uni-D
Software
ESC/P
, IBM PPDS
0 slash
0
,
I/F mode
Auto
, Parallel, Serial, USB
Auto I/F wait time
10 seconds
, 30 seconds
Baud rate
19200
, 9600, 4800, 2400, 1200, 600, 300 BPS
Parity
None
, Odd, Even, Ignore
Data length
8 bit
, 7 bit
Parallel I/F bidirectional mode
Off,
On
Packet mode
Auto,
Off
Character table
*2
Standard model:
Italic,
PC 437
, PC 850, PC 860, PC 865, PC 861, PC 863,
BRASCII, Abicomp, Roman 8, ISO Latin 1, PC 858, ISO 8859-15
All other models:
Italic,
PC 437
, PC 850, PC 437 Greek, PC 853, PC 855, PC 852,
PC 857, PC 866, PC 869, MAZOWIA, Code MJK, ISO 8859-7, ISO
Latin 1T, Bulgaria, PC 774, Estonia, ISO 8859-2, PC 866 LAT, PC
866 UKR, PC APTEC, PC 708, PC 720, PC AR864, PC 860, PC 865,
PC 861, PC 863, BRASCII, Abicomp, Roman 8, ISO Latin 1, PC
858, ISO 8859-15, PC 771, PC437 Slovenia, PC MC, PC1250,
PC1251, KZ1048
International character set for Italic table
Italic U.S.A.
, Italic France, Italic Germany, Italic U.K.,
Italic Denmark1, Italic Sweden, Italic Italy, Italic Spain1
Pitch
10CPI
, 12CPI, 15CPI, 17CPI, 20CPI, Proportional
Auto CR (IBM PPDS)
*3
Off
, On
Manual feed wait time
0.5 second, 1 second,
1.5 seconds
, 2 seconds
Buzzer
Off,
On
Low-noise mode
Off
, On
