Epson 440 - Manual (Page 37)

EPSON Stylus Color 440/640/740 Revision A
Chapter 1 Product Description 37
1.6 Printer Initialization
Stylus Color 440, 640, 740 have three kinds of initialization methods.
Following explains each initialization.
[1.Power-on initialization]
This printer is initialized when turning the printer power on, or printer
recognized the cold-reset command (remote RS command). When
printer is initialized, following action is performed.
(a) Initializes printer mechanism.
(b) Clears input data buffer.
(c) Clears print buffer.
(d) Sets default values.
[2.Operator initialization]
This printer is initialized when turning the printer power on again within
10 seconds from last power off, or printer recognize the /INIT signal
(negative pulse) of parallel interface. When printer is initialized,
following action is performed.
(a) Cap the printer head.
(b) Eject a paper.
(c) Clears input data buffer.
(d) Clears print buffer.
(e) Sets default values.
[3. Software initialization]
The ESC@ command also initialize the printer. When printer is
initialized, following action is performed.
(a) Clears print buffer.
(b) Sets default values.
1.7 Initialization Settings
Stylus Color 440, 640, 740 initializes following settings when the
initialization is performed. Also, if the user changes the settings in the
Panel setting mode, Default setting or Remote command setting, values
or settings which are possible to be stored are initialized as initialization
settings.
 Page position: Page heading location for current page
 Line spacing: 1/6 inch
 Right margin position: 80 lines
 Left margin position: First line
 Character pitch: 10CPI
 Printing mode: Text mode (Not Raster graphics mode)