DMP-135  
(260-2866)                 Control Panel              Faxback Doc. # 4325


You can control many of the printer functions directly from the DMP-135's 
control panel, which consists of four keypad controls and four LED 
indicators.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    FINE                                                 │
│      o  NLQ       V-LINE        HSD    o ON/OFF LINE                    │
│      ┌──────┐    ┌──────┐    ┌──────┐    ┌──────┐           o POWER     │
│      │ PARK │    │ FONT │    │LF/FF │    │PITCH/│                       │
│      │      │    │      │    │      │    │MARGIN│           o PAPER OUT │
│      └──────┘    └──────┘    └──────┘    └──────┘                       │
│        SET         <---        --->                                     │
│                                                                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 KEYPAD CONTROLS

[ON/OFF LINE | PITCH | MARGIN] -- sets the printer to on line or off line.

To enter the pitch-set/margin-set mode, press and hold this button for one
second while the printer is on line.

The printer goes off line when a paper empty error occurs. To continue 
printing when this happens, press this button. The printer goes on line and
prints one more line; then, it stops and goes off line again. If the 
printer buffer contains no data when you attempt to print one more line, 
the printer stays on line until you input one line of data to the printer.

During the self test, press this button to temporarily stop the test. Press 
it again to resume the self test.

[HSD | LF/FF] -- sets or cancels the high-speed-draft (HSD) mode in on-line
mode. When you set the HSD mode, the printer beeps twice. When you cancel 
the HSD mode, the printer beeps once. If there is data in the printer 
buffer, the printer will print the buffer contents before you can set or 
cancel the HSD mode.

In off-line mode, press this button to advance the paper one line. Press 
and hold the button to begin a form feed.

In the pitch-set, margin-set, and font-set modes, press this button to move
the print head to the right.

To begin the self test, press this button while turning on the printer.

NOTES:

*   To select the super-speed-draft mode, use the pitch-set mode.

*   In HSD mode, the NLQ font is not available. The NLQ indicator lights 
    when you select the NLQ font, but printing in HSD mode is always in the
    draft font.

*   HSD mode is primarily for normal character printing. If you send 
    graphics data or characters with some special attribute (superscript/
    subscript, for example) in HSD mode, the print result might not be the
    same as it would be in draft or NLQ mode. Also, if you try to print 
    graphics intermixed with text while in HSD mode, some of the text 
    might print over some of the graphics.

[FINE V.LINE | FONT] -- sets or cancels the fine vertical line mode in 
on-line mode. When you set the fine vertical line mode, the printer 
beeps twice. When you cancel the fine vertical line mode, the printer beeps
once. If there is data in the printer buffer, the printer will print the 
buffer contents before you can set or cancel the fine vertical line mode.

    NOTE: The fine vertical line mode prints from the left home position.
    If you want to print unidirectionally from the current left margin,
    use the ESC U command. Refer to the DMP-135 DOT MATRIX PRINTER 
    TECHNICAL REFERENCE manual.

To enter the font-set mode, press this button in the off-line mode.

In the pitch-set, margin-set, and font-set modes, press this button to move
the print head to the left.

To enter the hex dump mode, press this button while turning on the printer.

[NLQ | PARK | SET] -- sets either the near-letter-quality (NLQ) or standard
print mode in on-line mode. When you select the NLQ mode, the printer beeps
twice and the NLQ indicator lights. Press [NLQ] again for standard mode; 
the printer beeps once and the NLQ indicator goes off.

If you have been using fanfold paper and are ready to switch to 
single-sheet paper, press this button in off-line mode to move fanfold 
paper to the parked position. This features lets you use single-sheet paper
without removing the fanfold paper from the printer.

In the pitch-set, margin-set, and font-set modes, press this button to 
store the selected settings into memory.

To print the DIP switch settings, press this button while turning on the 
printer.

INDICATORS

POWER INDICATOR -- lights when the POWER ON/OFF switch is set to ON.

PAPER OUT INDICATOR -- lights without blinking when the printer is out of 
paper. When this happens, the printer goes off line and the alarm sounds 
for one second. Load more paper into the printer and press [ON/OFF LINE].

The PAPER OUT indicator blinks when there is a carriage fault or an 
electrical problem.

ON/OFF LINE INDICATOR -- lights when the printer is on line and ready to 
receive data from the computer. When the indicator is off, the printer is
off line and cannot receive data.

When the indicator blinks, the printer is in pitch-set, margin-set, or 
font set mode.

NLQ INDICATOR -- lights when the printer is in the NLQ mode.

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