Imprinter
User Manual H12 / SCAMAX® 8x1 - Version 2019.12
8.3.2.
Capacity of the Ink Cartridges
Based on the amount of printed information, the amount of ink consumed is calculated (in droplets)
per Imprinter and recorded and thus the remaining ink levels are saved. This can be determined at
any time, using the Scanner-Info (
see
chapter
). If the amount of an ink cartridge falls below 10%,
a corresponding warning appears in the display (
see
chapter
). As the amount of ink fluctuates
slightly due to production, it can happen that an ink cartridge despite specifying an ink quantity of
0% still prints or is already empty, although the amount is above 0%.
The achievable number of printable characters per ink cartridge varies , depending on the different
imprinter types. For the imprinters supplied in standard configurations, the original ink cartridges
contain
16.5 g
of ink. When using the standard font, this will last for approx.
2 million
characters.
In the case of the HD imprinters, however, there are additional dependencies. With the
11 ml
ink
quantity (
according to the manufacturer
), approximately
3 million
characters can be printed in a sing-
le-line height at a resolution of
300 dpi
. Increasing the resolution to
600 dpi
, however, reduces the
number of characters by half, i.e. to about 1.5 million characters, and using the highest resolution
halves the number again, to about
750,000
characters. Increasing the line height per character also
reduces this number, to about
half
the number (
1.5 million
) for two-line height, to one
third
(
1 million
)
for three-line height, and to one
quarter
(
750,000
) for four-line height. In the interest of moderate
ink consumption, it is therefore advisable to exactly determine the necessary size and quality of HD
imprinter printouts, in each case.
Notice
If the ink cartridge is removed in order to replace it with a new one, this must be done with an
active device, so that the level can be reset. After inserting the ink cartridge a prompt appears
on the display with the opportunity to put the ink reservoir again at 100% via a button, thereby
indicated the use of a new ink cartridge or to keep the amount of ink on the current value, when
the ink cartridge, for example to control or clean, was removed and reinstalled. The current
value is also shown in the message, for informational purposes.
