TROUBLESHOOTING

This section offers solutions to potential problems you may experience with your P420 printer. The table below lists the screen messages that will be displayed on the printer's LCD, both during normal operation and to alert operator of any error conditions. There is also some additional information dealing with quality issues concerning printing onto cards.

5.1 Interpreting LCD Display messages

SCREEN MESSAGE

MEANING

ACTION

 

 

 

INITIALISING

The printer is performing an

Wait for the ready message

 

internal test before use

 

READY

Ready for use

 

 

 

 

WAIT

Print Head cool down mode

Wait for READY message

TEMPERATURE

 

 

 

 

 

SELF TEST

Self test card printing

Wait for test card

 

 

 

 

 

DOWNLOADING

The card data is being

Wait for card printing to start

DATA

transmitted

 

 

 

PRINTING YELLOW

The yellow panel is being

 

printed

 

 

 

 

PRINTING MAGENTA

The magenta panel is

 

printing

 

PRINTING CYAN

The cyan panel is printing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TROUBLESHOOTING

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Zebra Technologies P420 user manual Troubleshooting, Interpreting LCD Display messages