Alps Electric MD-1300 manual ¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed, ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges

Chapter 2 - Various Printing Operations

Step 1¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed

Use any suitable application to lay out photographs or pictures in order to create the necessary print data.

Photographic-Quality Label templates have been prepared in the Label folder of the ALPS Installation CD-ROM included in the pack- age. When creating data using those templates, please see the section “How to Use Photo Label Templates” in the “Read Me” file on the ALPS Installation CD-ROM for instructions. You may use them, or employ some other application to lay out the data ac- cording to the print format shown below.

Step 2¨ Install the Ink Cartridges

Install one cyan, one magenta, and one yellow ink cartridge, and one Finish cartridge in the ink cartridge holders. The cartridges may be installed in any order.

For details, see Chapter 1, "Installing Ink Cartridges".

Step 3¨ Load Paper

Use manual feed mode.

1.Set the paper feed switch to position "M".

2.Adjust the paper feed guide to the width of the paper plus several millimeters.

3.Load one sheet of the Photo Realistic Labels into the sheet feeder and press the ready / insert button.

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