Fargo DTC550 - Resolving the Excessive Resin Printing Problems

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DTC550 Direct to Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 2.8)
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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
.
a. Open the Printer Control Panel from the computer.
b. If using Windows 2000/XP, right click on the DTC550 Series Card
Printer and select Printing Preferences.
c. Click on the Image Color tab.
d. Adjust the Resin Heat to a more negative value in increments of 5%.
OR
e. Adjust the Resin Heat in the LCD. See Using the Printer Calibration
Utility.
f. Select Menu from the LCD.
g. Select Setup Printer, then Print Settings, and then Resin Heat.
h. Adjust the current value to a more negative number in increments of 2.