But is a good rule to spend a few minutes taking care of your printer before or after a big event, or when the day is over before you put out the light and go home. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
The power switch is on the rear right side of the printer. Do not press any other button when turning on the printer for normal operation. Power ON/OFF switch Power cable receptacle Fuse holder Interface connector SW00016 Figure 1. Position of the Power ON/OFF switch. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
Using the buttons and indicators will be further explained later in this manual. Do not hold the front button depressed! Doing so will result in erroneously cut tickets often resulting in paper jam. On CD 200 versions, load new ticket stock, then press the center pushbutton. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
CAUTION! – NEVER store the tickets on the floor. Stones that enter the printer together with the ticket material destroy the printhead. CAUTION! – Make sure that the ticket path between the ticket material is free from hard edges October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
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Load the tickets in the hopper with the magnetic stripe facing down and the railway symbol forward. Put the weight on top of the ticket pile. SW00022 Figure 5. Positioning the ticket stock 2.3.3 Front load versions Figure 6. Loading a single ticket from the front. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
• Finally reload the ticket stock and turn the printer on. Figure 7. Inserting a cleaning card in rear ticket entry See page 13, ”Cleaning products shopping list” for details. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
On CD-200 versions: Insert the Cardclene into the empty card dispenser and place the weight on top of it. Turn the printer off and on and after approx. 20 seconds the cleaning process will stop. Remove the card and turn the printer off. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
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The pressure applied to the Cardclene will clean the necessary rollers. • Close the lid and turn the printer on. The ticket will be ejected and another will take its place. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
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If you used the self-test to do the test printout, turn OFF and ON the printer after- wards, and the printer is ready for another week of hard work! The printer is now ready for use. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
Lint free cleaning cloth (AF Safewipes) Cleaning products can be purchased from various suppliers around the world. The AF- products within parenthesis in the list above are examples from AF Computer Cleaning Products, see www.af-net.com. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
Make test printout to check that the line across the paper has no gaps in the width used by the barcode (all pixels in the test line are black). CAUTION! – NEVER store the tickets on the floor. Stones that enter the printer together with the ticket material destroy the printhead. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
Take some tickets and put them on the lid of the printer. Load them into the printer and print tickets. If the problem now is gone, the ticket path to the printer is the cause of the problem. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
1) Ticket stock is available in the selected ticket track. 2) The magnetic encoding was successful. 3) The ticket is ready to be printed (encoded and cut). 4) The last line of the printable area has been printed successfully. TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
If the Red indicator stays ON, even though ticket stock is present in the selected entry, this indicates that the paper path in the TTPM2 has been blocked. Follow the descrip- tion on the next page to remove the paper jam.
CORRECTIVE ACTIONS General reset A general reset of the TTPM2, restoring all parameters to their default value, is effected if all three pushbuttons are kept depressed at power ON. All three indicators will light but nothing else will happen. At this point, the power has to be turned OFF and ON once more.
3. Turn printer OFF and ON to exit self-test mode. The green indicator lights up at power ON. Should it fail to light up, switch the TTPM2 OFF and back ON again. If the green indicator is still OFF, check your power connection both in the TTPM2 and in the wall outlet.
RIGHT VIEW RIGHT VIEW FANFOLD TICKET FANFOLD TICKET STOCK STOCK SW00007 CAUTION! – NEVER store the tickets directly on the floor. Stones that enter the printer together with the ticket material destroy the printhead TTPM2 Operators’ Guide October, 01...
Use a correctly configured serial interface cable between the printer and host computer. The printer may print single tickets correctly with other cables but when batch printing tickets the loss of handshaking gives incorrect number of tickets or misprinted tickets. October, 01 TTPM2 Operators’ Guide...
TICKET STOCK The TTPM2 printers are produced, calibrated for, and tested with the customers ticket stock. When you receive new ticket stock form your supplier; please take a moment to check that the newly delivered tickets have the correct measurements. This may save you from endless paper jams.
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