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Printronix T5204R User Manual (312 pages)

Brand: Printronix | Category: Label printers | Size: 11.83 MB |

English

Table of contents

User’s Manual

1

T5000 Thermal Printer

1

Software License Agreement

3

Communication Notices

5

Trademark Acknowledgements

8

PRINTER WARRANTY

9

THERMAL PRINTHEAD

9

SUPPLIES

9

ON-SITE MAINTENANCE SERVICE

9

Table of Contents

11

1 Introduction

17

Manual Conventions

18

Standard Features

19

Optional Features

20

Thermal Printer Technology

22

Thermal Consumables

23

Setting Up The Printer

24

Installation

26

Serial Connection

27

Parallel Interface

27

Debug Connection

27

Twinax Connection

28

Coax Connection

28

NIC Connection

28

2 Operation

29

Status and Display Indicators

30

Control Panel Keys

31

Control Panel Keys (cont.)

32

Media Handling Modes

33

Loading Media And Ribbon

34

Loading Roll Media

35

Media Roll

36

Media Hanger

36

Media Damper

37

Printhead

37

Platen (Rubber

37

Drive Roller)

37

Loading Fanfold Media

41

Loading Ribbon

45

Rear Ribbon

46

Guide Roller

46

Removing The Media Guide

48

BatchRewindMode

49

Installing The Media Guide

50

Loading Media

51

Rewinder

54

Label Peel-Off

55

Printing Adjustments

59

Left Pressure Block

60

Right Pressure Block

60

Positioning The Media Sensor

61

Sensing Different Media Types

62

Running Auto Calibrate

63

Running Media Profile

64

Running Manual Calibrate

66

Cleaning

67

Chapter 2 Cleaning

68

3 Configuring The Printer

69

Chapter 3 Overview

70

Selecting A Menu Option

71

Changing Printer Settings

71

Saving A Configuration

72

Printing A Configuration

75

Menu Overview

78

Main Menu

79

Chapter 3 Main Menu

80

VALIDATOR

84

VALIDATOR Submenus

86

Chapter 3 VALIDATOR

90

Beam Shift

90

I2of5 Checksum

90

Num Retry

90

CONFIG. CONTROL

91

CONFIG. CONTROL Submenus

92

Name Config (1-8)

93

Reset Cfg Names

93

MEDIA CONTROL

94

MEDIA CONTROL Submenus

96

Label Width

98

Ver Image Shift

99

Hor Image Shift

99

Orientation

99

Chapter 3 MEDIA CONTROL

100

Auto Map Select

101

Auto Label Width

103

Tear-Strip Time

105

Pre-Peel Mode

105

• Disable

105

Pre-Peel Adjust

105

CALIBRATE CTRL

108

CALIBRATE CTRL Submenus

109

Chapter 3 CALIBRATE CTRL

110

Media Profile

110

Sensed Distance

110

Gap/Mark Thresh

110

Paper Out Thresh

110

Manual Calibrate

111

Pwr Up Auto-Cal

111

Cal in Peel Mode

113

PRINTER CONTROL

114

PRINTER CONTROL Submenus

116

Active IGP Emul

117

IMPORTANT

117

Host Interface

117

Chapter 3 PRINTER CONTROL

122

Glob Mem Adjust

122

Max Cache Memory

122

Max Cached Char

122

Standard Chars

123

Bold Chars

123

Extra Bold Char

123

Batch Counter

123

EMULATIONS

124

Simple Protocol Converter

125

Chapter 3 EMULATIONS

126

COAX SETUP

128

(cont. from prev. page)

129

Chapter 3 COAX SETUP

130

TWINAX SETUP

131

Chapter 3 TWINAX SETUP

132

SPC COAX SETUP

134

SPC TWINAX SETUP

135

IPDS SETUP

136

TN5250 SETUP

138

5250 SETUP

139

IGP/PGL SETUP

140

(cont. from page 140)

141

IGP/VGL SETUP

142

Chapter 3 IGP/VGL SETUP

144

P-SERIES SETUP

145

Chapter 3 P-SERIES SETUP

146

P-SER XQ SETUP

148

SER MATRIX SETUP

150

PROPRINTER SETUP

152

EPSON FX SETUP

154

Emulation Submenus

156

Chapter 3 Emulation Submenus

162

Horizontal DPI

177

TopofLineSpace

194

Bottomof8LPILineSpace

194

Bottomof6LPILineSpace

194

VPA Check

198

Width Limit

198

DIAGNOSTICS

200

DIAGNOSTICS Submenus

201

Reset Head Data

203

Head Type

203

Head Voltage

203

PARALLEL PORT

204

PARALLEL PORT Submenus

205

SERIAL PORT

208

SERIALPORTSubmenus

209

Buffer Size in K

211

Framing Errors

215

C/T PORT

216

Report Status

217

ETHERNET PARAMS

218

C/T PORT Submenus

219

ETHERNET PARAMS Submenus

220

Flash Memory

223

Serial Or Parallel Port

224

Network Interface Card (NIC)

227

T5000IGP. (See Figure 7.)

228

↓ keys while

229

↓ keys down

229

Downloading True Type Fonts

232

4 Interfaces

233

Centronics Parallel Interface

234

IEEE 1284 Parallel Interface

235

Nibble Mode

236

Byte Mode

236

Data Carrier Detect (DCD) 8

239

5 Diagnostics And

241

Improving Processing Time

242

Data Exchange

242

Interfacing

243

Controlling Print Quality

244

Replacing The Printhead

245

Replace The Printhead

246

• Label(s) did not get

250

• A portion of the printed

250

• Print quality is good, but

254

• An occasional blank label

254

Printer Alarms

256

Fault Messages

256

A Specifications

269

Appendix A

270

Figure 10. Media Dimensions

271

T5X04 T5X06 T5X08

271

Indicators And Switches

272

Host Interfaces

273

Environmental

274

Physical

274

Acoustic Specifications

274

B Printer Options

275

Interface Options

276

Supplies And Accessories

277

Genuine Printronix Media

278

Accessories

280

C ASCII Control Codes

281

Appendix C

282

D Standard And Heavy-Duty

283

Removing The Media Cutter

287

E Media Cutter Tray

289

4. Close the media cover

291

F Glossary

293

Appendix F

294

Numerics

299

*750926-001*

312

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