FARGO electronics DTC500 Series - Resolving the Excessive Resin Printing Problems

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DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encoders Troubleshooting Guide (Rev. 3.0)
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Resolving the excessive Resin Printing problems
Symptom: Black resin text and barcodes appear smeared or too thick, as shown below.
Step Procedure
1 Reduce the Resin Heat setting within the Image Color tab of the Printer driver.
See the Using the Image Color tab
procedure on page 123. See the next page.
a. Open the Printer Control Panel from the computer.
• If using Windows 95/98/ME, right click on the DTC500 Series Card
Printer/EncodersIcon and select Properties.
• If using Windows NT 4.0, right click on the DTC500 Series Card
Printer/Encodersand select Document Defaults.
• If using Windows 2000/XP, right click on the DTC500 Series Card
Printer/Encodersand select Printing Preferences.
b. Click on the Image Color tab.
c. Adjust the Resin Heat to a more negative value in increments of 5%.
OR
Correct the Image Darkness in the LCD. See the Adjusting the Image Darkness
procedure on page 200. See the next page.
a. Select Menu from the LCD.
b. Select Setup Printer, and then select Image Darkness.
c. Adjust the current value to a more negative number in increments of 2.