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Left Margin:
   
This setting can modify the left margin when the ‘Custom’ ‘Page Size’ is selected.  You 
may choose to avoid any changes by selecting ‘Use Paper Size’ which will assume 
you wish to use the full 8” available print width.  You may also choose to set a 
number of columns of unprinted left margin.  The actual empty width created will 
depend upon the current character pitch as set by ‘Default Pitch’.  For example, if the 
default pitch is set to 12 characters per inch, and you set the right margin to ‘9’, there 
will be a 3/4” (9 x 1/12”) right margin established.  If the current ‘Default Pitch’ is 
set to ‘Proportional’, 10 characters per inch pitch is used for this calculation.  Values 
that cause up to 4.5” of left margin are allowed. 
						

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Right Margin:
 
             
This setting can modify the right margin when the ‘Custom’ ‘Page Size’ is selected.  
You may choose to avoid any changes by selecting ‘Use Paper  Size’ which will 
assume you wish to use the full 8” available print width.  You may also choose to set 
a number of columns of unprinted right margin.  The actual empty width created will 
depend upon the current character pitch as set by ‘Default Pitch’.  For example, if the 
default pitch is set to 12 characters per inch, and you set the left margin to ‘9’, there 
will be a 3/4” (9 x 1/12”) left margin established.  If the current ‘Default Pitch’ is set 
to ‘Proportional’, 10 characters per inch pitch is used for this calculation.  Values that 
cause the printable page width (the space left on the page by the difference between 
left and right margins) of as little as 1/5”are allowed.
Text Line Spacing:
                       
This setting is used to modify the amount of vertical space that is used for each line 
of text.  If you select ‘6 Lines/Inch’, lines of text will be created every 1/6”.  If 
you select ‘8 Lines/Inch’, lines of text will be created every 1/8”.  Since the “IBM 
graphics characters” used to create boxes and lines are 0.12” tall, when printing 
documents that contain these characters, you will want to select “8 Lines/Inch 
(0.12”)” to assure that the tops and bottoms of the graphics characters touch.   
						

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Default Font:
                                
This command determines which of the two internal typefaces is the default when 
printing ASCII text.  From the factory, a Serif font (similar to Courier) and a Sans 
Serif font (similar to Letter Gothic) are supplied.
Default Pitch:
                                
This command determines default horizontal size of characters when printing ASCII 
text.  Smaller characters (15 per inch) allow you to print more characters across a 
line than larger characters (10 per inch).  Each character in ‘10’, ‘12’, or ‘15’ per inch 
mode will use the same amount of horizontal space.  If ‘Proportional’ is selected, 
each character uses an amount of horizontal space appropriate to the characters’ 
intrinsic width.  For example, the letter ‘i’ will occupy less horizontal space than the 
letter ‘w’.  The value supplied here will, as noted above, affect the actual width of 
margin settings.
Extended Characters:
                                
This command determines what the printer’s ESC/P® emulation does when ASCII 
characters with values of between 128 and 255 are received.  Either the graphics 
characters or italic versions of the lower valued characters (32 to 127) are printed.  
See chart in Appendix I. 
						

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Character Set Map:
This menu allows you to select the use of special characters appropriate for one of the 
languages selected.  See Appendix I for a chart of the special characters available. 
						

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Printer Commands (Function Buttons) 
See the buttons across the bottom of the window.
Test  Page:
You can print a test page using the Confi guration  Utility or you can print test pages 
using the Main  Switch (See “Self -Test Feature”, page 52).
Clicking on ‘Test  Page’ will print a page showing the current printer confi guration and 
image quality verifi cation graphics.  See illustration below. 
						

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 Clean:
Clicking on this button places the printer in “Cleaning  Mode”.  Refer to that 
maintenance procedure in this manual for further instructions.
Factory  Reset:
Clicking on this button will return the printer to its original factory settings for 
fonts and confi guration.  The confi guration data from the fi le “PJ3Factory.cfg” or 
“PJ3PlusFactory.cfg” on the same directory as exe fi le.
  will be loaded and displayed.  Since that fi le is expected to match the internal factory 
confi guration of your printer, this fi le’s properties are set to “Read Only” and it 
should not be modifi ed.
Save Confi g:
Clicking on this button will save the confi guration as you see it to the fi le “PJ3Default.
cfg” or “PJ3PlusDefault.cfg” on the same directory as exe fi le.
   and then send this confi guration information to the printer.  Be sure that all of the 
settings are adjusted to your liking.  Once sent to the printer, these settings will 
become the power-on default settings.
Close:
This selection closes this application without sending data to the printer and without 
saving the current settings. 
						

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Installing the  Batter y (Optional)
1. Open the printer’s battery  cover by pressing the cover latch.  Push the cover away 
from the AC  adapter receptacle.  See Figure 10.
Figure 10.  Opening the Battery Cover
2. Swing the cover open and remove it.
3. Gently push the battery  connector into the terminal on the inside of the printer’s 
battery  compartment.  See Figure 11.
Figure 11.  Pushing the battery  connector into the terminal 
						

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4. Grasp the battery removal  ribbon, which is attached to the inside of the battery 
 compartment.  See Figure 12.
NOTE:  If you forget to hold on to the ribbon, you may accidentally insert the
  battery on top of it.  Then you won’t be able to remove the battery by pulling 
the ribbon.
Figure 12.  Placing the battery inside the 
battery  compartment
5. While holding onto the ribbon, tilt the battery and place it inside the battery 
 compartment.  Once the battery clears the outer edges of the compartment, press it 
securely into position.
  Make sure the side of the battery with Ni-MH marked face the outside of the battery 
 compartment.  Otherwise, the battery  cover will not close properly.
NOTE:   The side of the battery opposite the warning label contains a heat sensor 
that stops the fl ow of electricity if the battery  overheats.
6. Attach the battery  cover to the end of the battery  compartment opposite the AC 
 adapter receptacle.  Close and latch the cover.  If necessary, gently push the cover 
latch towards the AC adapter receptacle until it latches. 
						

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Removing the  Batter y
1. Open the printer’s battery  cover by pressing the cover latch.  Swing the cover open 
and remove it.
2. Pull out on the battery removal  ribbon as shown in Figure 13 until the battery starts 
to tilt out of its compartment.
NOTE:  If the battery removal  ribbon is caught behind the battery, insert a thin 
metal object such as a fl at-blade screwdriver between the battery and the 
case at the end away from the AC  adapter receptacle and tilt it out of its 
compartment.
3. Remove the battery from the compartment.
4. Gently pull the battery  connector from the terminal inside the printer.
Figure 13.  Instructions for removing the battery