Basic Printing Method
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Basic
Operation
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C
Press [ENTER] to confirm your entry.
[BASE] lights. When the screen displays the character "B" together with the printable width at the
location (as shown in the following figure), setting is completed.
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B
Step 5 : Printing Tests and Normal Cleaning
Before you carry out actual printing, perform a printing test to ensure no dot drop-out occurs. If dot drop-out
occurs, perform cleaning of the print heads (normal cleaning).
MEMO
• This operation is unnecessary if you will only perform cutting.
• When performing printing tests successively, you can select "SCAN" (vertical printing) or "FEED" (horizontal
printing) as the print position for the 2nd and later tests in comparison to the 1st test.
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P. 155, "Performing Printing Tests Arranged Horizontally"
1.
Perform a printing test.
A
Press [FUNCTION].
B
Press [ ], then [ ] to display the screen shown below.
CLEANING
TEST PRINT
C
Press [ENTER].
A test pattern is printed.
D
Check whether there is dot drop-out in the test pattern.
Dot drop-out
Missing blocks indicates dot drop-out.
E
Close the front cover, if you open the front cover.
If no dot drop-out occurs, this operation is finished. Press [FUNCTION] to go back to the original
screen.
If the [PRESS ENTER KEY TO CONTINUE] message appears on the screen, press [ENTER].
