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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4.
Rotate the thumb wheel on the left side of the supply spindle towards the rear of the
printer until the ribbon is pulled tight across the printhead.
5.
Verify that the media is loaded and ready to print and then close the printer cover.
6.
Press the Feed button to have the printer feed a minimum of 10 cm (4 inches) of media to
remove slack and ribbon wrinkle, and to align the ribbon on the spindles.
7.
Change the print mode setting from direct thermal printing to thermal transfer to set the
printer’s temperature profiles for thermal transfer media. This can be done with the printer
driver, application software, or printer programming commands.
• When controlling printer operations with ZPL programming, refer to the Media Type
(^MT) ZPL II command (follow the instructions in the ZPL Programming Guide).
• When controlling printer operations with EPL Page Mode, refer to the Options (O)
EPL command (follow the instructions in the EPL Page Mode Programmer’s Guide).
8.
To verify the mode change from direct thermal printing to thermal transfer printing, use
the Printing a Test (Printer Configuration) Label on page 18 to print a configuration label.
The ‘PRINT METHOD’ should read ‘THERMAL-TRANS’ on the printer configuration
status label.
Your printer is now ready to print.