The Speaker Company ta200 manual Power-on Utilities, Ribbon and Gap/Black Mark Sensor Calibration

4.3 Power-on Utilities

There are six power-on utilities to set up and test printer hardware. These utilities are activated by pressing FEED button then turning on the printer power simultaneously and release the button at different color of LED.

Please follow the steps below for different power-on utilities.

1.Turn off the printer power switch.

2.Hold on the button then turn on the power switch.

3.Release the button when LED indicates with different color for different functions.

Power on utilities		The LED color will be changed as following pattern:
	LED color	Amber	Red	Amber	Green	Green/Amber	Red/Amber	Solid green
Functions			(5 blinks)	(5 blinks)	(5 blinks)	(5 blinks)	(5 blinks)
1.	Ribbon sensor calibration and gap /		Release
	black mark sensor calibration
2.	Gap / black mark sensor calibration,			Release
	Self-test and enter dump mode
3.	Printer initialization				Release
4.	Set black mark sensor as media					Release
	sensor and calibrate the black mark
	sensor
5. Set gap sensor as media sensor and							Release
	calibrate the gap sensor
6. Skip AUTO.BAS								Release

4.3.1 Ribbon and Gap/Black Mark Sensor Calibration

Gap/black mark sensor sensitivity should be calibrated at the following conditions:

1.A brand new printer

2.Change label stock

3.Printer initialization

Please follow the steps below to calibrate the ribbon and gap/black mark sensor.

1.Turn off the power switch.

2.Hold on the button then turn on the power switch.

3.Release the button when LED becomes red and blinking. (Any red will do during the 5 blinks).

It will calibrate the ribbon sensor and gap/black mark sensor sensitivity.

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