Avoiding Loss Of Material - CAB XC Series Operator's Manual

5 Printing Operation
5.5

Avoiding Loss of Material

Attention!
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Loss of material!
XC has a fundamental difference to other cab printers :
The print images for the two colors of one label are printed at two different places in the media feed.
Therefore every interruption of the continuos print process has the following consequences :
• Material already printed with the secondary color will be fed to the upper printhead to complete the print
of the label, but the following media will not be printed with the secondary color.
• A label backfeed to the lower printhead is not allowed due to the reliability of the label transport.
• Following blank labels are generated, which cannot be used.
• For operation with cutter the length of the blank section is at least 110 mm for continuos material.
For labels where the print image has to be synchronized to the label transport the loss of material can
reach a length of more than 300 mm.
To minimize the loss of material it is necessary to avoid interruptions of the continuos print process.
 Interrupt the print process with the pause key only if it is absolute necessary.
 Avoid print jobs with a small amount of labels, especially single prints.
 Avoid predictable error situations  5.6 on page 20.
If errors occur the loss of material is particular high. Besides the blank section also material must be
rejected which is partly printed.
Optimization of the Data Transfer
If sequent labels contain differing information, the internal preparation of the second label must be completed before
the printing by the lower printhead for the first label has been finished !
Otherwise the first label will be fed to the upper printhead to complete the print without printing the next section with
the secondary color. The print of the second label begins only after completion of the first label.
Therefore it is necessary to minimize the data to be transferred. i.e. to avoid transferring complete label descriptions
and to transfer the changing data only :
 In the printer driver menu General > Print Settings > Advanced Setup > Options the setting "Force optimized
printing" is permanently activated.
or
 For direct programming use the replace command R for changing data  Programming Manual.
Attention!
!
Loss of material!
The RS-232 interface is unsuitable for fast transmission of changing data.
 Use USB or Ethernet interface for print operation.
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