Frye FONIX 7000 - Manual (Page 56)

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8. Tear off excess paper by pulling the paper against the thermal head at
approximately a 45º angle.
9. Close the printer door. Press the [FEED] button to advance the paper through
the printer door slot. You can tear off excess paper by pulling it upward
against the tear strip (on top of the pritner door opening) at approximately a
45º angle. You are now ready to print.
Note 1: Whenever the printer door is opened, you will need to repeat steps 8
and 9. Closing the printer door without tearing the paper at the thermal head
can cause a paper jam, which can damage the printer.
Note 2: If the [FEED] or [PRINT] button is pressed while the Head-Up lever is
in up or middle position, the printer may fail to respond to all subsequent key
commands, even when the lever is returned to down position. If this happens, it
will be necessary to power off the instrument and restart.
2.4.5 Unloading a partial roll of paper
1. Place the Head-Up lever in the up positon.
2. Use the thumbwheel to unwind the paper from behind the rubber roller.
3. Push the roll of paper back and up, then lift out.
2.4.6 Using an external printer
You can hook up an external printer to your 7000 test system to print your
results on normal office paper. This eliminates the problem of fading associated
with thermal printouts, and often makes it easier to store your test results.
You can use any external printer that supports HP PCL (Hewlett Packard Printer
Control Language) version 3.0 or the Epson printer language ESC/P2. The print-
er should have a parallel interface. We keep a list of printers that work with our
analyzer on our website:
http://www.frye.com/products/analyzers/exprinter.html.
1. Unplug the 7000 test system and the external printer from any power
source.
2. Connect a standard printer cable to the external printer.
3. Connect the other end of the cable to the connector labeled PRINTER on the
back of the main module of the 7000 test system.
4. Plug the 7000 test system and the external printer into their respective
power sources.
5. Follow the directions found in Section 2.4.1 to select the external printer
in the 7000 software. If you want to set the printer language or whether to
print in color or black & white, you will need to use the Setup menu.