FARGO electronic CD Color Printer manual Interpreting the Printer’s Indicator Lights

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Section 6: Interpreting the Printer’s

Indicator Lights

The Power and Busy LED indicator lights located on the top of the printer can tell you a lot about what is happening inside the printer. To accurately interpret what it means when these lights are on, off, or flashing, please refer to the following:

Power Light

Busy Light

 

 

Power Light

Busy Light

Printer

 

 

 

 

 

 

on solid

off

Is ready to receive a print job.

 

 

 

 

on solid

on solid

Is processing and printing an image.

 

 

 

 

on solid

blinking slowly

Has received a print job and is

 

 

 

waiting for you to load CD-R media

 

 

 

or has a print media jam.

 

 

 

If media loading is required, simply

 

 

 

load media into the CD Tray

 

 

 

according to Section 2-C and press

 

 

 

the

CD Tray button to resume

 

 

 

printing. If print media is jammed,

 

 

 

clear the media from the printer and

 

 

 

turn the printer OFF and ON to reset

 

 

 

for the next print job.

 

 

 

 

blinking

on solid

Is not receiving print data properly.

 

 

 

Turn the printer OFF and ON to reset

 

 

 

and cancel print job from your

 

 

 

computer. Before sending next print

 

 

 

job, make sure you are using a

 

 

 

shielded interface cable and that it is

 

 

 

properly connected.

both lights are flashing

Has either the wrong ink cartridge or

alternately with each other

no ink cartridge installed.

 

 

 

See Section 2-B or 2-E for more

 

 

 

information on changing or replacing

 

 

 

ink cartridges.

 

 

 

 

 

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Contents CD Color Printer Trademark Acknowledgments Table of Contents Thank YOU… Getting StartedChoosing a Good Location Unpacking and InspectionIdentifying the Parts Applying Power Installing AN INK Cartridge Ink Cartridges and Printable CD-R’sAbout INK Cartridges and Printable CD-R’S Do not Touch the Copper Area Loading a Blank CD-R Loading Blank CD-R MediaLoading a Blank Jewel Case Booklet or Insert Printing a Self Test Copper Area Replacing or Switching INK CartridgesInk Cartridges and Printable CD-R’s Push the cartridge back until it snaps into place Connecting the Printer to Your Computer Using the CD Color Printer with WindowsWindows 95/Windows NT Installing the Printer DriverWindows Installing the 32-BIT Print Spooler for Windows Panel Setting UP the Printer Driver Media Ink Cartridge Dither ModePrint Quality Color MatchingRotate Ink SaturationManual Load Write Direct to PortFast 32-bit Spooler OrientationCartridge Using the CD Color Printer with Windows Calibrate 15 -12 -9 -6 Printing a CD-R Using the CD Color Printer with Windows Using the CD Color Printer With Macintosh Installing the Printer Driver Chooser Setting UP the Printer Driver Ink Cartridge Enlarge/reduce Cartridge Printer Printing a CD-R Using the CD Color Printer with Macintosh Using the Print Backgrounder for Macintosh Installing the BackgrounderPrinting with the Backgrounder Backgrounder Status Window Admin menu Backgrounder MenusFile menu Jobs menu Problems During a Background Print Power Light Busy Light Printer Interpreting the Printer’s Indicator LightsMaintaining the Printer Cleaning the INK Cartridge NozzlesCleaning the CD Tray and Printer Casing Clearing a CD Media JAMTechnical Support Print Speed Technical SpecificationsAppendix a Interfacing Information IntroductionCENTRONICS-TYPE Parallel Interface Mini 8-PIN Serial Interface Pin Number Signal Name Signal DescriptionPIN Minicircular Auxiliary Interface Pin Number Signal DescriptionIndex