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SECTION 4: Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the TEAC P-55.
The P-55 is a label printer suited to printing a high quality of label on a moderate amount of CD or DVD.
This manual provides information on installing the P-55, connecting it to your PC, loading ribbons, etc.
When necessary, please refer to your PC's manual, too.
Please read this manual in full before using your P-55 to take a maximum advantage of its capabilities.
1 P-55
Features
- Full-color, high-quality print
- Photo-quality print with full color 256 gradation levels per color offered by re-transfer printing
- 400dpi high precision and high definition image quality ensured
- Two printing methods available
With the P-55, you can print image using either PHOTO ribbon for dye-sublimation printing or COLOR
ribbon for thermo-fusible printing depending on the image type or purposes.
- If you want to reproduce subtle tonal gradations as seen in photos,
Use PHOTO ribbon, which is excellent in gradation reproductivity.
- If you want to print text on black background,
Use COLOR ribbon, which is best suited to expressing color tone differences.
The P-55 automatically identifies the type of ribbons loaded (*1) and the print setting for the ribbon is
configured.
*1
You must load a correct combination of ink and transfer ribbons into the P-55. If you load a wrong
combination of ribbons, an error message is displayed on the front panel.
- Protective coating applied during print process
The P-55's overcoating capability produces glossy prints free from blurriness and outstanding in
resistance against moisture and scratch.
Excellent weatherproofness and scratchproofness followed by high durability;
Clear coating applied over the surface of the disc printed with the P-55 prevents scratch, moisture and
UV damage, and thus keeps glossy prints free from blurriness and color fade-out with the years.
- Best also for barcode prints (using COLOR ribbon)
When printing bar codes on the label surface, your concern may be with water resistance and durability,
as well as with fine black and white precision prints. The P-55 produces delicate, high-precision black
and white prints provided with durability and resistance against water thanks to its COLOR ribbon print
and overcoating capabilities.
- Printable area from inner edge to outer circular edge
The P-55 can print on the disc surface from the outside edge of the clear inner hub to the outer edge of
a disc (*2) without losing any of the content you want to print.
*2
It is not guaranteed that the P-55 can print a disc from edge to edge. Print performance depends
on the print range that each media manufacturer recommends.
- [Optional ribbons]
COLOR (+P) ribbon is another type of COLOR ribbon available. It can be used for ink jet printable discs
and the like other than our recommended thermal printable discs: (*3) (*4).
*3
This ribbon does not support all kinds of discs.
Neither printing nor recording performance is supported if a disc that is not any of our
recommended thermal printable discs is used for the P-55. You need to check in advance on your
own on what discs the P-55 can print. (For details, contact our sales team.)
*4
To use the COLOR (+P) ribbon, the firmware on the P-55 must be ver.52.00 or later or you need
the utility software ver.2.0.0.10 or later. The COLOR (+P) ribbon is not supported if you use any
version of the firmware or software older than the above versions.
