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Texas Instruments 880 - 3.2.2 Setting and Clearing Vertical Tabs; Menu Mode; Open the Printhead Door; Normal Mode

Texas Instruments 880
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3.2.1
Setting
Form
Length
and
Top
of
Form
Use
the following procedure to enter the command
mode
and
set the form length from the control
panel:
1.
Open
the printhead door (Rgure
~-3).
2.
Press
the Line Feed key and (if neces-
sary)
the Form
Align
key to position the
paper
so
that the printhead
is
where you
want the first line
of
the form to
be
printed.
3.
Press
the
Command
key.
The
Normal
indicator turns
off
and the
Command
indi-
cator turns on.
4.
Press
the
Set
Top
of
Form
key.
5.
Press
the Line Feed key to position the
paper
so
that the printhead
is
where you
want the first line
of
the next form to
be
printed.
6.
Press
the
Set
Top
of
Form
key.
7.
Return to normal mode by
pressing
the
Normal
key.
8. Check the new form length by
pressing
the
Form Feed
key.
NOTE
Returning to normal mode
in
the middle
of
the setting-form-Iength sequence will
cause
the printer to
retain
its previous
form length
and
the Error indicator to
blink.
Press
the Reset key to turn off
the Error indicator.
By omitting steps 5 and 6
of
the "Setting
Form
Length" procedure, you
can
move the top
of
form
to
the present line without changing form length.
3.2.2
Setting
and
Clearing
Vertical
Tabs
Use
the following procedure to enter the command
mode and set or clear vertical tabs from the control
panel.
1.
Open
the printhead door.
3-4
2.
Press
the
Command
key.
The
Normal
indicator turns off, and the
Command
indicator turns on.
3.
Press
the Line Feed
.key
to
position the
paper for the desired tab position, or
press
the Tab key
to
move to the tab that
is
to be
removed.
4.
Press
the Tab
Set
key
to
set a tab at the
present
line,
or
press
the Tab Clear key
to
clear the tab at the present line.
5.
Repeat
steps 3
and
4
as
needed.
6.
Press
the
Normal
key to return to the
normal mode.
7.
Press
the Form Feed key
to
move to the
top
of
form position.
8.
Press
the
Command
key to return to the
command mode.
9.
Press
the Tab key to
see
if
the new tab
has
been
set or the old tab cleared.
10.
Press
the
Normal
key to return to the
normal mode.
3.3
MENU
MODE
The following functions
can
be
performed from the
control
panel
while
in
the menu mode.
Changing font
Changing characters-per-inch (cpi)
Changing
lines-per-inch (lpi)
Selecting the perforation-skip
(PERFSKIP)
feature
Checking host-software-controlled margins
Printing the configuration report and menu
Printing the character set report and menu
Entering the test mode and printing. the
status report
Returning to the normal mode

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