Brother AX-325 User Manual

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ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER

USER'S GUIDE cdn. English

Thank you for choosing a Brother etectronic typewriter! This product is designed to deliver years of reliable operation. Some of the outstanding features of this typewriter are illustrated in the letter below. The numbers in brackets refer to the page and box where you can find further information explaining a feature. For example, Margins (p. 2, Box 4) means that this feature Is explained in box 4, on page 2. Ribbon replacement is explained on page 10.

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Special note: In this Guide, the "+" sign between two keys, tike ^ + J means that you press ]$! and hold it down while pressing J .

1 Repeat Keys

The following keys will auiomatically repeat when held down. All Character key

[-] {hyphen) '

[SPACE BAR]

IH _

(carrier moves from one tab to the next)

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2 Inserting and Moving Paper

To insert paper: insert a sheet of paper and press ^ -4- . Paper will

advance to approximately one inch from the top edge of the paper. Press

g-J to position the carrier on the left margin.

To move paper: Press ^ to raise the paper by 1/12 inch. Press

]$i + J to lower the paper by i /12 inch. To move the paper continuously in either direction, hold down the appro

priate key(s) for more than half a second.

If you raise/lower the paper more than 1/12 inch, the correction memory is cleared.

3 Viewing Mode

Press + [VIEW] to turn the viewing mode on or off.

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Viewing Mode OFF

During continuous typing and during viewing, the paper remains at the

typing position.

4 Margins

Move the carrier to me desired position for the new left or right rr.argin

using g-j or [SPACE] .

To move beyond the position of a current margin, first position the carrier on the margin and press [ALT] + .

When the carrier is on the desired position, press [ALT] + (if you are setting the left margin), or [ALT] + ]-g (if you are setting the right margin).

The minimum distance between the left and right margins is two (2)

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5 Line Spacing

Single space: Press [ALT] + [LINE 1]. One and a half space: Press [ALT] + [LINE 1 1/2].

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Double space: Press [ALT] + [LINE 2].

6 Pitch

Pica (10 characters per inch); Press [ALT]+ [PITCH 10]. Elite (12 characters per inch): Press [ALT] + [PITCH 12].

/ Returning the Carrier

To return the carrier manually; Simply press ^ . Holding down this key

will feed the paper repeatedly.

To activate the auto carrier return function: Press [ALT] + [AUTO]

(you will hear two beeps). The carrier will return automatically every time

the [SPACE BAR] or [HYPHEN] is pressed in the hot zone. To turn this function off, presstfre-same [ALT] + [AUTO] again.

The hot zone starts six (6) spaces belore the right margin and extends to

the right margin. A warning beep wilt sound when the hot zone is reached.

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8 Typing Tips

Permanent space: If you want to type a space in the hot zone without

triggering a carrier return, press + [SPACE BAR],

Permanent hyphen: If you want to type a hyphen in the hot zone without

activating an auto carrier return, press -i- [HYPHEN].

Typing past a margin: If you want to type a few characters outside

margin, press [ALTj + when the carrier is on the margin.

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9 Backspacing

To move back one space at a time: Press KH ■ To move continuously

to the left, hold this key down. See also "12 Superimposing Characters" on page 4.

To move the carrier quickly to the left margin: Press $ + g— , To move back half a space; Press

space" on page 8 for more details.

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10 uppercase characters

To type uppercase characters: Hold down either the right or left [SHIFT]

key (the SHIFT lamp will blink while the key is held down). Releasing this

key returns the keyboard to the lowercase mode.

For continuous uppercase typing: Press A (the SHIFT lamp will blink

and all the keys will be set in uppercase mooe). To return to lowercase typing, press either the right or left

For continuous capita! letter typing: Press (the SHIFT lamp will

blink quickly and the letter keys only, not the number keys, will be set in uppercase mode). Press the same keys to return to norma! typing.

Superscripts and subscripts are used mainly for scientific text composition (for instance, exponents, chemical symbols, or reference to footnotes).

To print a superscript: Press 2 to lower the paper by 1/12 inch,

and than type the character that you want in superscript.

To print a subscript; Press ^ 5 to raise the paper by 1/12 inch, and

then type the character that you want in subscript.

To restart normal typing: After typing a superscript, press 3$e + J . After

typing a subscript, press ^ will move the paper back to

normal position. ,

In super/subscript mode, the carrier will always move by 1/12 inch, regardless of the current line spacing/ '/f' ^ ^ or i$t+ J is pressed

more than two times, the correction memory is cTeared.

[SHIFT] key.

12 Superimposing Characters

Some characters not found on your keyboard can be created. For exam ple, if you want the symbol for Japanese yen:

Type the letter Y and press . You may now type the symbol "=" to obtain

To erase superimposed characters, you may use the automatic correction function (See “21 Automatic Corrections on the Current Line“ on page 7.) for the second character, but you have to use the manual method (See “22 Corrections outside of the Correction Memory" on page 7.) for the first

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To type the special characters and symbols marked in green on the bottom of certain keys, hold down i$i and press the desired key.

14 Dead key

The character keys of the keyboard differ slightly from country to country in order to provide the accented letters that are frequently used. If an accentuated letter is not available on the keyboard, you can type it using the dead key.

To type the dead key: Press the dead key, and then type the character

under the accent.

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15 Tabs

To set tab stops; Move the carrier to the desired position using [SPACE BAR] or |f-|, then press [ALT] + [T+] to set a normal tab stop,

A maximum of 8 tab stops can be set. Repeat the above step to set each

tab stop. The right and left margins, as well as the right and left ends of the platen,

are considered tab positions.

To type tables; Press to space to the next tab and type the word(s).

Repeat the steps above to complete a line of your table. Press ^ to move to the beginning of the next line and proceed as for the

first line to complete the table.

To clear tab stops: Use the -e| key to move the carrier to the tab stop

you want to clear.

Press [ALT] + [T-] to clear the tab.

Caution: If you press [ALT] + [T-] for more than half a second, all tab

stops will be deleted, A beep will sound three times.

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16 Underline

To turn on the automatic underlining function: Press [ALT] + fa...1.

You will hear twoJieeps, , Type your text. If the underline function is on, all characters and spaces

are underlined.

To cancel the automatic underlining function; Press [ALT] -j-fa...]

again.

The spaces that trigger a carrier return in the automatic carrier return

mode are not underlined. Permanent spaces or hyphens, i.e. spaces or hyphens typed while holding

, however, are underlined.

17 Bold

To turn on the bold face function: Press [ALT] + [aaa]. You will hear

two beeps.

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To cancel the bold function: Press [ALT] 4- faaal aaain.

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