Chapter 4 — Troubleshooting and Maintaining the Printer
48 EasyCoder PD42 Printer User’s Guide
If your labels look as depicted below, you may want to try
adjusting the ribbon shield.
Printouts of low quality caused by ribbon wrinkling.
The ribbon shield mechanism is located on the thermal
printhead. It has two adjustable screws, A and B, as shown below.
Ribbon shield adjustment screws
To adjust ribbon shield
1 If the label printout matches Test label A, turn screw A
clockwise. If the printout matches Test label B, turn screw B
clockwise.
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Test Label A
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Test Label B
B
A