Setting Heater Temperatures

The are three heaters: a preheater, a platen heater, and post- heater. The postheater’s top and bottom zones can be set to dif- ferent temperatures.

The heater temperatures can be set during the media load pro- cess (see “Loading Roll-Fed Media” on page 3-14), from the Media Wizard (see “Media Wizard” on page 3-32), or from the menu (see the following procedure).

1.From the control panel Front Page screen, press the  (Menu) key.

2.Press the ) key repeatedly to highlight Printer Settings.

3.Press the  (Menu In) key.

4.Press the ) key repeatedly to highlight Heater Temps Setting.

5.Press the  (Menu In) key.

The control panel displays a list of heater settings, num- bered from 0 to 10 and “Custom.”

6.Press the , or ) keys repeatedly to select a setting.

As you scroll through the settings, the temperature settings for each zone are shown at the bottom of the screen.

7.Press ! to select a setting, or  to cancel.

If you selected Custom, a list of heaters appears so you can change the settings for each of the heater zones.

If you selected any other setting, go to step 9.

8.Select a heater zone and set a new temperature.

If a Media Wizard type is currently loaded, the control panel asks whether to save the new setting in the Media Wizard for the currently loaded media.

9.Press " to save the new settings in the Media Wizard, or ( to not save them.

Settings can be saved only for user-defined media, not for factory-defined media. The settings will be applied whether or not you save them in the Media Wizard. If you do not save them, they will be lost when you load a different media type or restart the printer.

The control panel advises you that it may take several min- utes for heaters to reach the new temperature settings.

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HP 72SR manual Press the , or keys repeatedly to select a setting, Press ! to select a setting, or  to cancel