Routine Care and Adjustment

Printhead Pressure Adjustment

This adjustment may be necessary if printing is too light on one side or if thick media is used. Refer to Figure 14.

1.Perform the Toggle Positioning procedure above. If the problem is solved, you may stop here; otherwise, continue with the rest of this pro- cedure.

2.Print some labels at Speed A, such as by running the Pause test (see page 71).

3.While printing labels, lower the Darkness setting until a gray level of printing is seen.

4.Loosen the knurled (upper) locking nuts at the top of the toggle assem- bly/assemblies.

5.Increase or decrease spring pressure (using the knurled adjustment nuts on the shafts of the toggles) until the left and right edges of printed area are equally dark.

Note: Printhead life can be maximized by using the lowest pressure that produces the desired print quality.

6.Increase Darkness to optimum level for the media being used.

7.Retighten locking nuts.

Media Sensor Position Adjustment

See “Adjusting the Transmissive Media Sensor Assembly Position” on page 15.

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