Primera Technology CD Color Printer II 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 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 Printing History Table of Contents Page Choosing a Good Location Getting StartedThank YOU… Unpacking and InspectionIdentifying the Parts Applying Power Ink Cartridges and Printable CD’s Installing AN INK CartridgeAbout INK Cartridges and Printable CD’S Do not Touch the Copper Area Loading Blank CD Media Loading a Blank CDLoading a Blank Jewel Case Booklet or Insert Printing a Self Test Replacing or Switching INK Cartridges Copper AreaInk Cartridges and Printable CDÕs Ink Cartridges and Printable CDÕs Using the CD Color Printer with Windows Connecting the Printer to Your ComputerInstalling the Printer Driver Windows 95/98 or Windows NTUsing the CD Color Printer with Windows Installing the 32-BIT Print Spooler for Windows 95/98 Bit Print Spooler Setting UP the Printer Driver Ink Cartridge MediaPrint Quality Ink Saturation Dither ModeColor Matching RotateWrite Direct to Port Manual LoadFast 32-bit Spooler Orientation CartridgeCalibrate Printer 15 -12 -9 -6 Offset box Printing a CDUsing the CD Color Printer with Windows Using the CD Color Printer With Macintosh CD Color Printer II Installer Chooser CD Color Printer High PrimaColor Print Quality Enlarge/reduce Cartridge Printer 12-15 Using the CD Color Printer with Macintosh Installing the Backgrounder Using the Print Backgrounder for MacintoshPrinting with the Backgrounder Backgrounder Status Window Backgrounder Menus Admin menuFile menu Jobs menu Problems During a Background Print Interpreting the Printer’s Indicator Lights Power Light Busy Light PrinterMaintaining the Printer Cleaning the INK Cartridge NozzlesCleaning the CD Tray and Printer Casing Clearing a CD Media JAMTechnical Support Technical Specifications Print SpeedIntroduction Appendix a Interfacing InformationCENTRONICS-TYPE Parallel Interface Pin Number Signal Name Signal Description Mini 8-PIN Serial InterfacePin Number Signal Description PIN Minicircular Auxiliary InterfaceIndex Page