Forms Control; Form Length Control; Form Feed Distance - Epson FX Series User Manual

The FX has several features that make it easy for you to print on any
size of page and to determine where on the page the printing will
appear. Because they are needed most often for creating forms or for
printing on pre-printed forms, these features are called forms control.
With the FX you can easily change the length of a page, the margin
settings, and the horizontal and vertical tabs. In this chapter and the
next two, you will learn about these forms-control features.
This chapter covers the way you control form feeding, which is the
movement of the paper from one paging unit to the next. You can
control the distance the paper moves, the positioning of the print head
at the top of each page, and the printer's response to your use of single
sheets of paper.

Form Length Control

The FX's default form feed is 66 lines, which (in the default 12-dot
line spacing) equals the length of a standard form:
you want to use a different size of paper, you can change the length of
a form feed. The next three subsections cover these factors of form
feeding.

Form feed distance

When the printer is not on line, using the FF button on the top of the
printer feeds the paper to the top of the next form. If you want to
advance the paper during a program run without stopping every-
thing, pushing the FF button, then starting again, you can use an
ASCII code that performs a form feed whenever you want one.
For the form feed command to be of any use, however, you must
Chapter 8

Forms Control

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