Tear-Off (Straight-Through) - Intermec EasyCoder PD4 User Manual

Chapter 4— Loading Media
Tear-Off (Straight-through)
The EasyCoder PD4 can print on labels, tickets, tags, and continuous
stock in various forms. This section describes the case when the media
is torn off manually against the printer's tear bar. This method is also
known as "straight-through printing."
Tear-off can be used for:
• Non-adhesive continuous stock
• Self-adhesive continuous stock with liner
• Self-adhesive labels with liner
• Tickets with gaps, with or without perforations
• Tickets with black marks, with or without perforations
The label taken sensor can hold the printing of the next copy in the batch
until the present copy has been removed, see Chapter 2, "Installation;
Print Mechanism." The label taken sensor is enabled/disabled using the
ESim O command, see the ESim v5.xx for EasyCoder PD4, Programmer's
Reference Manual. The point of detection is approximately 15 mm (0.6
in) outside the inner edge of the media path.
Note: When using the printer for the first time or when chang-
ing to another media with different characteristics in regard
of label length, gap length, liner transparency, black mark size
or position, etc., you should calibrate the label gap sensor and
adjust the media feed in the Autosensing Mode, see Chapter 9,
"Adjustments", after you have loaded the media.
When loading a new roll of media from the same stock as
before, it is usually sufficient to press the Feed key and feed out
a label.
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