Threading and Aligning Forms

Select this task when you load forms in duplex mode. This procedure is also automatically called up when the system is powered-on in duplex mode and during some error and jam recovery procedures.

All of the controls you need to accomplish this procedure are available on the Display/Touch Screen windows.

This procedure initially displays a Thread/Align Forms window (see Figure 21).

Figure 21. Setup Window for Thread/Align Forms

1. SELECT one of the three conditions you want from the Select a Starting Condition box. Your choice is highlighted.

   The three selectable conditions on this window are:

   • Forms are threaded through both printers.

     Select this when you need to verify that the existing front-to-back printing synchronization distance is still accurate:

     • The system has gone through a "Restart" procedure with forms loaded through both printers.
     • You are in a recovery procedure for an error condition or a forms jam that you have determined did not tear, damage, or separate the forms anywhere in the forms path through both printers.
     • The system power has been switched off then switched back on with unseparated forms threaded through both printers.
   • Forms are not loaded in printer 2.

     Select this when you need to set the front-to-back printing synchronization distance:

     • You are loading a new type of form with different characteristics from the last form used in the system.
     • You are loading the same type of form previously used in the system that was allowed to run out to end-of-forms and was flushed out of the printer so that a new supply of forms could not be spliced to the trailing edge of the old supply.
     • You are in a forms jam recovery procedure that separated the forms path in a manner that you could not rejoin by splicing.
   • Forms are broken between the printers.

     Select this when you are recovering from a condition that separated the forms between Printer 1 and Printer 2 that you can rejoin by splicing.

2. If you SELECT the Cancel push-button on the window, the following actions occur:
   • If you selected this procedure from the Operate pull-down menu, the Thread/Align Forms procedure closes with no actions taken.
   • If this procedure appeared automatically, the Thread/Align Forms procedure closes; however, any later attempt to make the printer Ready displays an Intervention Required Display/Touch Screen window containing a D206 Error Code. This requires SELECTING the Thread/Align Forms procedure and executing it before any printing actions can resume.
   Figure 22. Main Thread/Align Forms Window

   
3. SELECT the OK push-button on the window. The main Thread/Align Forms procedure window (Figure 22) appears.

Find the condition you selected to start from and go tot the referenced page: