Avery Dennison AP7.t - The First Printer Test; Settings for the material type; Printing the status report

12/08 Rev. 5.01-01 USER MANUAL Commissioning & Operation
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The First Printer Test
Settings for the material type
The parameter settings described below provide the printer with the
necessary information about the label material used. When printing from a
layout program, these settings are usually provided automatically by the
printer driver. For your first test prints, you need to configure them manually.
Material type
• The label material is “endless”, which means that it contains no punches/
perforations, breaks or reflex marks that could be recognised by the punch
sensor:
« Set the
PRINT PARAMETER > Material Type to “endless”.
• The label material contains punches/perforations, breaks or reflex marks that
can be recognised by the punch sensor (so-called “punched” material):
« Set the
PRINT PARAMETER > Material Type to “Punched”.
Material length « Set the
PRINT PARAMETER > Material Length to the length of the material (in mm).
Material width « Set the
PRINT PARAMETER > Material Width to the width of the material (in mm).
Only for punched/perforated material:
Type of punch
• Label material with breaks or punches:
« Set the
SYSTEM PARAMETER > Sensor Type to “Punched”.
• Label material with reflex marks:
« Set the
SYSTEM PARAMETER > Sensor Type to “Reflex”.
P Instructions on how to use the parameter menu can be found in Info-Printouts
and Parameters, “Using the Parameter Menu”.
Printing the status report
A status report printout is a perfectly adequate printer test. The width of the
status printout can be set to 100mm or 50 mm. This should match the width
of the label material used. The length of the printout is 200mm.
100mm width « Navigate to
INFO PRINTOUT > Printer Status.
The printout that is triggered spans a label length of 2x 200mm, listing all of
the printer’s current parameter settings.
50 mm width « Set the
SYSTEM PARAMETER > Print Info Mode to “Compact right”.
« Navigate to
INFO PRINTOUT > Printer Status.
The printout that is triggered contains the same information as the wider
printout, compressed to a width of 50mm.
Density If the printout is not as black as you would like it to be, increase the print
density as follows: