Load/Eject
Loads or ejects a sheet of paper. The printer
normally loads and ejects paper automatically.
Pause
Stops printing temporarily. Press it again to resume
printing. To reset the printer, hold down this button
for about five seconds until all the lights turn on.
This clears the printer’s buffer and restores the
factory default settings.
Button combinations and power-on functions
The button combinations below let you perform additional
functions to control your printer.
Alt +
POWER
switch
Prints a demonstration page of the printer’s fonts
and colors. (Paper must be loaded in the printer.)
Hold down
Alt
until the printer feeds a page. To exit
demonstration mode, wait until the
Pause
light
comes on; then turn off the printer.
Load/Eject +
POWER
switch
Checks the paper length and performs a printer self
test at 360 dpi. Hold down
Load/Eject
until the
printer feeds a page. To stop the self test, press the
Pause
button and then turn off the printer. See
“Testing the Printer” in the Setup Guide for more
information.
Alt + Pause
Starts the print head cleaning cycle; see “Cleaning
the Print Head” in Chapter 3.
Pause +
POWER
switch
Enters the printer’s Default setting mode and prints
an instruction page; see “Using the Default Setting
Mode” on page 2-23 for more information. Hold
down
Pause
until the printer feeds a page. To exit
the Default setting mode, press the
Pause
button
and turn off the printer.
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