Zebra Technologies Strata Thermal Printers manual Take-Up Spindles Supply Tracking Bar

Operation

Loading Transfer Ribbons

Transfer ribbons are used when printing on thermal transfer media such as adhesive labels or non-adhesive tags. Thermal transfer ribbons are available in general purpose wax (blue leader), general purpose wax-resin (silver leader) and polyester resin (gold leader).

Take-Up

Spindles

Supply

Spindles

Tracking

Bar

The print head carriage in a thermal transfer printer includes these functional features:

•Ribbon Take-Up Spindles (forward pair) Pulls ribbon over the print head.

•Ribbon Supply Spindles (back pair) Provides back tension to stop wrinkles.

•Ribbon Tracking Bar (in back of print head carriage). Automatically tracks ribbon ten- sion (equalizes) across the ribbon’s width.

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