● Thefinal“TechnicalSupplement”containingthecommandandcharac-
ter referencetableswillprobablygetthumbedthemost.
Conventions
Incidentally,oneofthoseTechnicalSupplementtablessuggestsa coupleof
typographicconventionswe’lluse.Baseten(decimal)numberswillgener-
allybe usedhere; if we haveto use base sixteennumbers(hexadecimal)
we’llexpresslysay so.
Andsecond,thelowercaseLispracticallyidenticaltothenumberone(1vcr-
sus 1). BecauselowercaseL isusedinmanycommanddescriptions,we’ll
usethe charactert’toavoidconfusion.
The Star LaserPrinter 8 Operations Manual
ThismanualisthecompaniontotheStarLaserPrinter8OperationsManual
thatcamewithyourprinter.Alaserprinteris a fairlycomplextoolthatre-
quirescareanddelicatehandling.SotousethisApplicationsManual best,
makesureyouunderstandthat OperationsManual first.
Your OperationsManual holds essentialinformationabout the Lascr-
Pnnter,8,suchashow to:
● unpackand set up yourlaserprinter,
● connecttheStarLaserPrinter8 toyourcomputer’sserialorparallelport,
● iink theLaserPrinter8 into a networkof severalcomputers,
● configuretheLaserPrinter8to yourneeds(wilhvanablcssuchas paper
sizeand speedof datatransfer),
● load paperandthetonercartridge,
● operatethe panelswitchesanddisplay,
● runthe LaserPrinter8 self-test,
● look afteryourprinterto keepit in peakcondition.
