Paxar TCMPCL2PR manual Printer Optimization, Adjusting the Print Quality

Chapter 10. Printer Optimization

This chapter provides information on how to improve your printer’s performance by

✦adjusting the print quality

✦reducing the imaging time for printing

✦providing general tips and hints for designing formats.

These printers use "smart imaging" to image and print fields on supplies. Smart imaging remembers the exact boundaries and locations of each field and places a boundary box (white space) around each field. When a field changes that particular boundary box is cleared and the new field data is imaged. However, the new field data may require a larger boundary box than the previous field did. In some cases, neighboring fields that do not change may be covered with white space from the changing field’s boundary box. To prevent existing fields from being covered by a changing field, see "Option 61 (Reimage Field)" in Chapter 5.

Adjusting the Print Quality ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Many factors affect print quality: type of supplies, print speed, print contrast, and the type of printer’s application. These printers support both thermal transfer and thermal direct supplies. The type of supply should match the printer’s application.

✦If you want to print at high speeds, you should use premium supplies. Using premium supplies reduces smudged images, hard to read labels, and faded print. Supply type, print speed, and print contrast work together to improve the print quality of labels. Contact your Monarch Representative for more information.

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