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Print Operations

Media Sensing

Media Sensing

The ZD500 Series™ printer media controls are set via a control panel setting or by sending commands to the printer.

 

Table 16 • Media Settings

 

 

 

Menu Item

 

Setting

 

 

 

MEDIA TYPE

 

SETTINGS Menu on page 52 for media sensing method

 

 

 

TEAR OFF

 

SETTINGS Menu on page 52 for setting the media

 

 

position after printing or a feed action.

 

 

 

PRINT MODE

 

SETTINGS Menu on page 52 to set media handling after

 

 

printing or a feed action.

 

 

 

LABEL LENGTH MAX

 

SETTINGS Menu on page 52 (see below for description).

 

 

 

POWER UP ACTION

 

TOOLS Menu on page 56 to set what the media does on

 

 

power up.

 

 

 

HEAD CLOSE ACTION

 

TOOLS Menu on page 56 to set what the media does when

 

 

the printer is closed.

 

 

 

MANUAL CALIBRATION

 

Manual Calibration - Media on page 75 for the procedure

 

 

to automatically adjust the printer for typical label media.

 

 

TOOLS Menu on page 56 to start the manual calibration

 

 

process.

 

 

 

SENSOR PROFILE

 

Sensor Profile on page 140 to observe and possibly

 

 

change media sensing for hard to calibrate media that for

 

 

example ‘has printing on the liner’ or ‘has pre-printe’

 

 

media‘ that can interfere with a manual calibration.

 

 

 

The printer’s media settings can be verified by printing a Printer Configuration label. See the Test Printing with Configuration Report Printouts on page 27 for more details.

The maximum distance that the automatic media type detection and sensing will check can be reduced by using the ZPL Maximum Label Length command (^ML). It is recommended that this distance be set to no less than two times the longest label being printed. If the largest label being printed was a 4 by 6 inch label, then the maximum label (media) length detection distance can be reduced from the default distance of 39 inches down to 12 inches.

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Zebra Technologies ZD500 manual Media Sensing, Media Settings

ZD500 specifications

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