Mechanism Fine Adjustment To Avoid Ribbon Wrinkles - LabelStation Pro 240 User Manual

printer has been
switched off
Power has been
Power and Error
switched OFF
LEDs are
and ON too fast.
blinking fast
Print-head
Ribbon wrinkles
pressure is set
during printing
incorrectly.
Ribbon
installation is
incorrect.
Print density
(darkness or
temperature) is
set too high.
Print head is
Grey line on the
dirty.
label
The platen roller
is dirty.
The printer is in
Irregular
Hex Dump
printing
mode.
The RS-232
setting is
incorrect.

6.2 Mechanism Fine Adjustment to Avoid Ribbon Wrinkles

This printer has been fully tested before delivery. There should be no ribbon wrinkle presented on the
media for general-purpose printing application. Ribbon wrinkle is related to the media thickness,
print-head pressure balance, ribbon film characteristics, print darkness setting etc. However, if the
ribbon wrinkles, please follow the instructions below.
Adjustable Printer
Parts
Symptom
LabelStation Pro 240
Turn off the printer and wait until all LEDs have gone out before turning it on
again.
Refer to relevant section of this manual, or visit:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/LabelStationSupport/Support+PDFs/LabelStation+Suppo
rt.pdf
for remedy.
Clean the print-head.
Clean the platen roller.
Turn the printer off and on to skip the dump mode.
Change the RS-232 setting.
Direction of wrinkle occurs from lower left to
upper right of label
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Direction of wrinkle
occurs from lower right
to upper left of label