QuickLabel Plexo! 653 - Manual (Page 60)

Printing Operation
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Suppressing Backfeed
Note: Feeding back the material to the lower printhead in the cut mode or between print jobs
is not allowed.
To avoid the backfeed :
• In the printer driver menu General > Print Settings > Advanced Setup > Options
the setting " ignore label position " is permanently activated.
or
• For direct programming use the command O F.
Ribbon Saving
If there is no information to print in the secondary color during a longer label feed, the
lower printhead will be lifted, and the transfer ribbon will be paused from feeding.
This will reduce the ribbon consumption. The minimum length for ribbon saving is
defined in the firmware and depends on the print speed.
The ribbon saver can permanently be activated in the printer configuration or
job-oriented by the software.
Avoiding Loss of Material
Note: Loss of material! The print images for the two colors of one label are printed at two
different places in the media feed. Therefore every interruption of the continuos print process
has the following consequences :
• Material already printed with the secondary color will be fed to the upper
printhead to complete the print of the label, but the following media will not be
printed with the secondary color.
• A label backfeed to the lower printhead is not allowed due to the reliability of the
label transport.
• Following blank labels are generated, which cannot be used.
• For operation with cutter the length of the blank section is at least 110 mm for
continuos material. For labels where the print image has to be synchronized to the
label transport the loss of material can reach a length of more than 300 mm.
To minimize the loss of material it is necessary to avoid interruptions of the continuos
print process.
• Interrupt the print process with the pause key only if it is absolute necessary.
• Avoid print jobs with a small amount of labels, especially single prints.
• Avoid predictable error situations. If errors occur the loss of material is particular
high. Besides the blank section also material must be rejected which is partly
printed.