User Guide
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Print Operations
- Determining Printer Configuration
- Long Term Printer In-activity or Storage
- Thermal Printing
- Modes of Printing
- Print Media Types
- Replacing Supplies
- Adjusting the Print Width
- Adjusting the Print Quality
- Media Sensing
- Ribbon Overview
- Printing on Fan-Fold Media
- Printing with Externally Mounted Roll Media
- Fonts and Your Printer
- Stand Alone Printing
- Sending Files to the Printer
- Print Meter
- EPL Line Mode
- Printer Options
- Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: Interface Wiring
- Appendix: Dimensions
- Appendix: ZPL Configuration
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Getting Started
Loading Transfer Ribbon
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1.
With the printer open, place a new ribbon roll on printer’s lower ribbon supply spindles.
Rotate the roll until the notches align and lock into the left side of the supply hub.
2.
Place an empty ribbon core on printer’s take-up spindles. Rotate the ribbon core until the
notches align and lock into the left side of the take-up hub.
You can find your first ribbon take-up core in the packing box. Subsequently, use the
empty supply core to take up the next roll of ribbon.