The ORIGIN button is not supposed to show you doing anything. You push that button before you send your design to cut. That is your measuring point, X,Y measures from that point, when you push the Origin button. ORIGIN makes X,Y 0,0.
Just glancing at the user manual, put the cutter on LOCAL, then jog the cutter head, then go back online again. On Local is when you change settings. Looks like to me.