Printronix P5000LJ user manual RibbonMinder, Print Statistics

Chapter 4 RibbonMinder

Print Statistics

You can view various printer statistics, such as hours 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 after 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-forth 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. The range is from 0 to 2,147,483,648 print lines.

•11 inch Pages. The cumulative number of pages the printer has printed. The range in print pages is from 0 to 2,147,483,648 total inches of paper movement divided by 11.

RibbonMinder

RibbonMinder is a user-definable software feature which notifies the user when a ribbon should be changed. It does this by monitoring ink consumption and alerts you when the print quality falls below a level you designate. This is especially important if you are printing bar codes to be scanned.

ON LINE 100% <printer emulation>

As printing continues, the percentage of usable ink in the ribbon decreases.

ON LINE 74%

<printer emulation>

ON LINE 8%

<printer emulation>

Ribbon ink being consumed

Ribbon life approaching end

When 0% usable ink appears, the printer is typically configured to stop printing and display the following message:

RIBBON INK OUT

CHANGE RIBBON

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