SATO CL612VA, CL608VA manual User Mode, Print Darkness Setting

Section 2. Installation and Configuration

Normal Mode

When the printer is powered on, the readout should display the following message:

ON LINE

QTY:000000

The LCD Panel will display the Online status on the top line of the display and the the bottom line will contain the label quantity (QTY) status. The ON LINE message will be changed to OFF LINE whenever the printer is switched offline by depresing the LINE key. As soon as a print job is received, the QTY message will indicate the number of labels to be printed. As soon as the label job begins to print, the display will indicate the number of labels remaining in the print job that remain to be printed.

User Mode

To enter the USER mode:

1.The printer is first taken offline by pressing the LINE key once. The display will change to:

OFF LINE

000000

2.When the display changes to OFF LINE, press the FEED and LINE keys simultaneoulsy for more than one second.

The printer now displays the first USER mode adjustment (Print Darkness).

Print Darkness Setting

There are three Darkness (or heat range) settings on the CL608/612 (1, 2 and 3) and five on the CL408/412 (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). The higher numbers represent darker settings. The current setting is indicated by an underline under one of the range settings. To change the setting:

PRINT DARKNESS

1(L) 2(M) 3(D)

1.Use the LINE key to step the underline cursor to the desired setting.

2.Once the correct setting is underlined, press the FEED key to accept the setting and advance to the next adjustment.

Note: This setting can be overriden by software (see Print Darkness page 4-56).

After setting the heat range with this command, finer adjustments can be made using the PRINT potentiometer adjustment on the Adjustment panel. See Section 3: CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE, for additional information on how to make this adjustment for optimum print quality.

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