Intermec EasyCoder 4420 User Manual page 26

EasyCoder 4420/4440 Bar Code Label Printer User's Manual
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To change the cardboard core-locking brackets to plastic core-locking brackets
1. Pull up on the middle of the cardboard core-locking bracket (P/N 065375), while
pushing down on one end with your index finger, until the end of the bracket is free
of the ribbon hub.
2. Remove the other end of the bracket from the ribbon hub.
3. Slide one end of the plastic core-locking bracket (Part No. 066792) into a bracket
slot on the ribbon hub.
4. Lift up on the middle of the bracket and use your index finger to slide the other end
of the bracket into the remaining bracket slot on the ribbon hub.
To load thermal transfer ribbon
1. Make sure you have raised the printhead. If not, turn the head lift lever clockwise
until it releases the printhead.
2. Place the empty ribbon core that came with the printer onto the ribbon rewind hub.
3. Detach the leader from the new thermal transfer ribbon roll and unwind the end of
the ribbon approximately 8 inches. The edge of the ribbon has a leader (with an
adhesive strip on the leader edge) for guiding the ribbon through the printhead
mechanism.
4. Slide the roll of thermal transfer ribbon onto the ribbon supply hub with the ribbon
roll winding clockwise.
5. Route the ribbon leader through the printer mechanism as shown in the following
illustration.
6. Attach the leader from the new thermal transfer ribbon roll to the empty ribbon core
using the adhesive strip on the leader edge.
Core-locking
bracket
Bracket slot
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