Epson LQ-300 Guia De Especificação

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EPSON LQ-300
Lights and buttons
Pause Light
The 
orange 
Pause light is 
on when the printer stops
printing. Each time you turn on the printer, the light
flashes briefly.
When the printer is out of paper, the light flashes and the
beeper sounds three times. The light also flashes when
you can tear off the last sheet of continuous paper at the
edge of the printer cover.
The 
 light goes on and the beeper sounds 
error occurs.
Font 1 
 Font 2 
The green Font lights, 
1 and 2, indicate the current font
Font 
button
.
Press the Font 
button during normal operation to cycle
through the printer fonts listed on the control panel.
 
you 
press the button, the 
Font 
 
change 
indicate your current selection.
 
you hold down the 
Font 
button while you turn on the
printer, you enter the Printer 
 mode, where you can
change many of the printer’s settings.
 button
During normal operation, you can press this button
briefly to feed paper line by line. Hold it down to load a
single sheet, or to advance continuous paper to the next
top-of-form position. You can also press 
 to 
If you want to make sure the printer is working correctly,
you can also use this button to run the self test To start
the self test, hold down the 
 button while you turn
on the printer.
Pause button
Press the 
 button to stop the printer temporarily
during printing or the self test. Press it again to resume
activity.
Paper Park
Press the Font 
 
 buttons together to feed
continuous paper backward to the paper-park position.
Micro Adjust
While in this mode, you can adjust the loading position by
pressing the 
 button or the Font button.
Character Fonts
To choose one of the seven internal fonts listed on the control
panel, press the 
 button. The two font lights come on (0),
go off(O), or flash (0) to show the current. selection. Press the
button repeatedly to cycle through all of the available
selections; stop when you reach the desired font
Your 
 stays in effect until you change it again or turn
off the printer. However, any font choices you make with
your software will cancel your control panel selection. The
table below shows 
how the Font lights 
appear for each
selection.
Font 
EPSON Roman
0
0
EPSON 
 
0
l
EPSON Courier
0
EPSON 
0
EPSON 
EPSON 
0
l
l
 
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Printer Settings 
Your printer has internal settings that control simple
functions such as the page length and character set. These
settings take effect each time you turn on the printer, so they
are also called default settings.
For most users, the factory 
 are best, but you can
The table on the next page
lists all the settings you can change.
EPSON LQ-300-4
10/2/94
Dot Matrix Printers