User Guide
Advanced menu
The measurement is made
▸
after power-on and before the first print job;
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after paper end and before the subsequent print job; after
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changing the paper source (e.g. from Tractor 1 to Tractor 2).
When you submit a print job, which exceeds the paper width, the following message appears in the
display -
The print job is stopped at the measured paper-end position
after printing the first line.
You can now either cancel the print job or load suitable paper. In
the latter case, the printer will resume the print job upon pressing
the
Online
key.
If you press the Online key without having changed the paper, another line is printed
until reaching the measured paper-end position.
The sensor interprets dark areas with a width of 13 mm or more as the right-hand paper
edge.
If the sensor does not detect any black area, the maximum possible printing width is
used as the printable area.
If there is a sensor malfunction (e.g. because of dirt, a defect or misinterpretation of the
paper width) it is necessary to deactivate the APW function (APW=Off), since otherwise
the printout will be too narrow or there will be no printout at all. In this case contact your
service technician.
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Paperwidth Error
Online
Setup
Press Online
2
1
3
4
Confirm your setting with the
Set
key (1)
Press the
Next
key (4) to access the next group of parameters.
Setting options:
On/Off
Default setting:
On
If
APW=On,
the printer is in the standard mode and truncates all data located beyond the right-hand and
left-hand paper edge. These print data are lost.
When you select
APW=Off
, the printer does not prevent undesirable printing on the platen.
The printer determines the paper width by means of an optical sensor in the print head module. The print
head carriage moves once across the maximum possible printable area of the paper and stores the
width measured in this process. The measuring process varies, depending on the paper source selected.
APW
Back
Next
Online
Setup
2
1
3
4
APW=On
*
Online
Setup
Set
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>
Exit
2
1
3
4
Select the
APW
(2) menu.
Automatic paper width detection (APW)
The automatic paper width detection feature
APW
prevents the printer from printing
beyond the paper edge. This is useful to prevent the printer from printing on the platen,
for example, because of an incorrect driver setting.
