Setting The Msn For Intermec Media And Ribbon - Intermec EasyCoder 3400e User Manual

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Setting the MSN for Intermec Media and Ribbon

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Use the PrintSet software, your third-party software, or the IPL command
set to change the MSN. If you want to see the current sensitivity setting of
your printer, print out a software configuration label.
To print a software configuration label
1 Turn the On/Off switch to the off position.
2 Press and hold the Feed/Pause button while turning the printer on. The
printer prints out a hardware configuration label.
3 Set the DIP switches to print out the software test label.
Top Bank Set switches 1 through 6 and 8 off. Set switch 7 on.
Bottom Bank Set switches 1 through 8 off.
4 Hold the Feed/Pause button down for 1 second. The printer prints out
the software configuration label.
5 Return the DIP switches to their original settings.
6 Turn the printer power off and then on.
For direct thermal media, use the three-digit sensitivity number located on
the roll of media to set the sensitivity number. You can also use the values
from the tables in the next section.
For thermal transfer media, you need to look in two places to determine
the sensitivity number. The sensitivity number on each roll of thermal
transfer media or ribbon has an asterisk (*) in place of one of the digits.
On thermal transfer media, the rating contains the first and second digits,
with an asterisk in place of the third digit. The number on the ribbon has
the first and third digits, with an asterisk in place of the second digit.
To optimize the sensitivity number for thermal transfer media, you
combine the digits as in this example.
Example: Optimizing the Sensitivity Number
Media or Ribbon
Thermal transfer media
Thermal transfer ribbon
Chapter 2 — Operating the Printer
Sensitivity
Number Description
56* The asterisk reserves the third digit to
identify the ribbon's sensitivity number.
5*7 The asterisk reserves the second digit to
identify the media's sensitivity number.
567 Optimized sensitivity number
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