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Chapter 4 RibbonMinder

Print Statistics

You can view various printer statistics, such as hour s of usage, and refer to
these figures for preventive maintenance purposes. Printer statistics
accumulate continuously; they do not reset when you turn off the printer.
All of the printer statistics are set to zero at the factory aft er burn-in testing.
•On. The cumulative time in hours the printer has been powered on . The
range is from 0 to 30,000 hours.
•Print. The cumulative time in hours the printer has actually been printing.
The range is from 0 to 30,000 hours.
•Print Strokes. The cumulative number of back-and-for th shuttle strokes
the printer has printed during normal operation. The range is from 0 to
2,147,483,648 shuttle strokes.
•Print Lines. The cumulative number of lines the printer has printed. T he
range is from 0 to 2,147,483,648 print lines.
•11 inch Pages. The cumulative number of pages the printer has p rinted.
The range in print pages is from 0 to 2,147,483,648 total inc hes of paper
movement divided by 11.
RibbonMinder
RibbonMinder is a user-definable software feature which notifies th e user
when a ribbon should be changed. It does this by monitoring ink consumption
and alerts you when the print quality falls below a l evel you designate. This is
especially important if you are printing bar codes to be s canned.
As printing continues, the percentage of usable ink in the r ibbon decreases.
When 0% usable ink appears, the printer is typically conf igured to stop
printing and display the following message:
ON LINE 100%
<printer emulation>
ON LINE 74% Ribbon ink being consumed
<printer emulation>
ON LINE 8% Ribbon life approaching end
<printer emulation>
RIBBON INK OUT
CHANGE RIBBON