What settings do the DIP switches control?

• The newer LQ-870/LQ-1170 printers do not have dip switches.
  Hold down the FONT button while you turn the printer on. It will
  print out its settings and tell you how to change them.
  
  * Indicates the factory setting
  
  Table 1
  
  

  Switch		ON	OFF
  SW 1-1	Switches 1-1 to 1-4 control Internal character sets/Character Tables Refer to Tables 3 and 4 below for settings
  SW 1-2
  SW 1-3
  SW 1-4
  SW 1-5	Print Direction	Unidirectional	Bidirectional*
  SW 1-6	High-speed draft	Off	On*
  SW 1-7	Input buffer	None	8 Kbytes*
  SW 1-8	1" Skip-over-Perforation	On	Off*

  Table 2
  
  

  Switch		ON	OFF
  SW 2-1	Page Length (for continuous paper)	See Table 5
  SW 2-2
  SW 2-3	Tear off	On	Off*
  SW 2-4	Auto line feed	On	Off*

  Table 3 International character sets
  
  

  Country	SW 1-1	SW 1-2	SW 1-3	SW 1-4
  USA	ON	ON	ON	OFF*
  France	ON	ON	OFF	OFF
  Germany	ON	OFF	ON	OFF
  United Kingdom	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF
  Denmark 1	OFF	ON	ON	OFF
  Sweden	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF
  Italy	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF
  Spain 1	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF

  Table 4 Character table
  
  

  Graphics Type	SW 1-1	SW 1-2	SW 1-3	SW 1-4
  Italic				Off*
  PC 437 (United States)	ON	ON	ON	ON
  PC 850 (Multilingual)	ON	ON	OFF	ON
  PC 860 (Portugal)	ON	OFF	ON	ON
  PC 863 (Canada-French)	ON	OFF	OFF	ON
  PC 865 (Norway)	OFF	ON	ON	ON

  Table 5
  
  

  Page Length	SW 2-1	SW 2-2
  8.5 inches (216 mm)	OFF	ON
  11 inches (279 mm)	OFF	OFF*
  11.7 inches (296 mm)	ON	ON
  12 inches (305 mm)	ON	OFF