User`s guide

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Basic Operations
Part 2
Print
Once the characters have been input, begin printing.
1
 Press[Print].
The print media selection display appears.
“No ribbon cassette” is displayed if the ribbon cassette is not installed. Install the
ribbon cassette.
“No ribbon information. No ribbon amount displayed. Press enter” is displayed if
the information cannot be read due to the ribbon cassette failure and so forth. If this
message is displayed, follow the instruction on the screen.
Whatis“printmedia”?
Print media is the material that you are printing on, such as a tube, heat shrink tube,
label tape, 4mm I.D. strip, clear tube, wraparound tape or plate.
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Acheckmark isdisplayednextto
thecurrentlyselectedprintmedia.
2
 Press[
▲
]or[
▼
]toselect“Plate”,andthenpress[Enter].
The plate (width) selection display appears.
The plate size must be set accurately. If the correct plate size is not selected, printing
will not proceed correctly.
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Acheckmark isdisplayednextto
thecurrentlyselectedplatesize.
3
 Press[
▲
]or[
▼
]toselect“8.0mm”,andthenpress[Enter].
The sets to print and range setting display appears.
If “Range: All” is not selected, press [▲] or [▼] to select “Range”, then press [◄] or
[►] to select “All”.
Rough amount of the remaining ink ribbon is displayed as shown. When the
information of the cassette is not properly retrieved, the amount of the ribbon does not
appear.
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IfCLisdisplayed,acenterlineis
printed.
4
 Press[Enter].
Printing begins.
Cancelingprinting
If you press [Canc], the message “Aborting print” appears and printing is aborted.
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5
 Takeouttheplate.
Cut the plate with scissors.
Ifaplatejams
Hold down [Canc] until the printer beeps. The printer stops all operations
immediately. Refer to “If a Tube or Label Tape Becomes Jammed” ( page 124) and
take out the jammed plate.
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In the plate mode, plates are neither cut in half nor cut fully. If characters are printed on
a plate with “On" selected on the Half cut selection display, a solid cut line is printed
automatically.
When a page is repeatedly printed in the continuous printing mode, the actual segment
length may be different from the specied one. To adjust it, refer to Note, “Adjusting the
segment length” ( page 101).
For details on printing characters on the plate, refer to “Printing with short pitch width” (
page 111).