Primera Primera LX200 manual

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ii Notices : The information in this document is subject to change without notice. NO W ARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS MADE WITH REG ARD TO THIS MA TERIAL, INCL UDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO , THE IMPLIED W ARRANTIES OF MERCHANT ABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A P ARTICULAR PURPOSE. No liability is assumed for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential[...]

iii T able of Contents Section 1: Getting Started ...............................................................................1 A. Choosing a Good Location ................................................................1 B. Unpacking and Inspection.................................................................2 C. Identifying the P arts .....[...]

iv Inter activ e F ea tur e in this PDF Document There are interactive features that will allow you to jump to dif ferent locations within the document. Each listing in the T able of Content s is interactive. Place the cursor on either the words or the page number . A small hand with a pointing finger icon appears. Click on the line with the icon a[...]

Getting Started 1 Section 1: Getting Started THANK YOU… ...for choosing an LX200 Label Printer . The LX200 Printer will print razor -sharp text and barcodes directly onto rolls of labels, card stock and fan-fold stock. This User's Manual is your complete step-by-step guide to quickly and easily setting up and printing with your new Label Pri[...]

2 Getting Started B. UNP ACKING AND INSPECTION While unpacking your printer , inspect the carton to ensure that no damage has occurred during shipping. Make sure that all supplied accessories are included with your unit. The following items should be included: • Printer • P ower A dapter • Separate P ower Cord • USB Cable • Software Insta[...]

C. IDENTIFYING THE PAR TS This illustration shows the front of the printer with its control buttons and LED indicator lights. The P ause Button pauses the printer AFTER the printing of the current label has finished to allow for loading of label stock and ink cartridge. The P ower LED indicates that the printer is on and ready to receive print jobs[...]

4 Getting Started This illustration shows the input ports and power switch found on the rear panel of the printer . D. COMPUTER SPECIFICA TIONS Minimum PC Specifications F or optimal printing speed you must have a PC with the following minimum specifications: • P entium IV P rocessor • 512 MB of RAM • 5 GB of F ree Hard Drive Space If your co[...]

Hardware and Software Settings 5 Section 2: Hardwar e and Softwar e Setup A. INST ALLING THE PC SOFTWARE The Installer Disc has a menu that will guide you through the process of setting up your duplicator . Please refer to the following for more information on each step: 1. Place the Installer CD in your CDRom Drive. The Installer application shoul[...]

6 Hardware and Software Settings If you are using a PC, after a few moments, W indows will tell you it has found new hardware and is looking for software to install it. Select "Install the software automatically" and click Next . Y ou may see a notice like the one shown here stating that the Printer has not passed W indows Logo T esting. [...]

Hardware and Software Settings 7 D. INST ALLING LABEL ST OCK Y our printer will utilize a wide variety of paper label stock. As long as the label stock is paper and can receive ink jet printing and is within the allotted size, it will work in the printer . Primera carries a large variety of paper label stock that has been converted and ready for us[...]

8 Hardware and Software Settings 5. Place the leading edge of the label stock between the throat guide and the side of the printer . 6. F eed the label stock further into the printer until it senses the label and automatically feeds it through the printer . If the printer fails to feed the label stock, press the F eed but- ton on the front panel wh[...]

Hardware and Software Settings 9 E. ADJUSTING THE LABEL ST OCK TOF (TOP OF FORM) SENSOR If you are using label stock other than standard square / rectangular die cut labels such as circular die-cut labels or through-hole stock use the instructions below to adjust the label stock TOF sensor . Circular Labels If you are using Circular Labels you must[...]

10 Hardware and Software Settings Through Hole Labels If you are using card stock or label stock that has a hole punch or a notch to identify a transition from backing to label, you can adjust the Sensor Bar to position it over the identifying mark. The Sensor Bar has a guide in inches and milimeters that will help you identify where to set the bar[...]

Hardware and Software Settings 11 T o adjust the sensor position use a pen to move the slide bar to the correct postion. F . USING F AN-FOLD LABEL ST OCK It is possible to use fan-fold label stock by feeding it through the fan-fold slot in the the back of the printer . Before feeding the fan-fold stock through the back of the printer , lock the sto[...]

12 Hardware and Software Settings G. INST ALLING THE INK CAR TRIDGE Y our printer has a built-in ink tracking system. This system is designed to warn you if your ink cartridge is low on ink. This ensures your labels will print properly and that the printer can create large batches of labels unattended and worr y-free. In order to make this system w[...]

Hardware and Software Settings 13 11. P ush cartridge cover downward until it snaps in place. 12. Click OK on your screen to indicate the new cartridge is now installed. Once you click OK you will be prompted to align the cartridge. A warning will appear stating that you must have installed label stock that is equal to or larger than 4" x 4&qu[...]

14 Hardware and Software Settings c. Cut or fold a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper in half length wise so that it is no wider than 4.25 inches. Pull the the label stock guide all the way out and lock it in place using the instructions in Section 2G. Push the paper into the feed area. Once the printer senses the page it will pull it into place. [...]

Printing Using a PC 15 Section 3: P rinting Using a PC A. USING NICELABEL Y our printer ships with a basic version of Niceware's NiceLabel software. This easy-to-use software is designed to allow you to create full color labels with text and barcodes quickly and sim- ply . The following is a tutorial to guide you through creating and printing [...]

16 Printing Using a PC b. Select your printer . This should be the Label Printer 200. Click Finish . 3. Now you will see your label in the Document W indow . Y ou can start to design your label using T ools from the T ool Box. F irst, we will use the T ext T ool. a. Click the T ext T ool Icon in your T oolbo x, then move the text cursor over the Do[...]

Printing Using a PC 17 4. Now , insert a barcode. a. Click the Barcode T ool Icon from the T oolbo x. Y ou will now have a Barcode Cursor that can be positioned anywhere within the Document W indow . P osition your cursor in the general area where you wish your barcode to print and click to start entering your barcode information. There is no need [...]

18 Printing Using a PC b. The first screen in the Barcode W izard will allow you to select the type of Barcode you wish to print. Y ou can also enter the data to be used in the barcode. F or this we are doing a simple UPC - A barcode. F or more information on other types of barcodes, please see Section 3B. Creating Bar codes in NiceLabel . c. Click[...]

Printing Using a PC 19 5. Now insert a graphic . Click on the Graphics T ool Icon in the toolbox. Y ou will now see a Graphics Cursor . Drag the cursor to the general area where you wish to place the graphic and click to get an Open dialog box. Y ou will be prompted to browse for graphic files. NiceLabel will accept bitmap graphics formatted as BMP[...]

20 Printing Using a PC b. There are other tools at your disposal to align the object or add shapes. On the right side of the screen you will see alignment tools so you can align the objects on your label in relation to each other . Select objects by clicking on them or clicking and dragging a "lasso" around multiple objects or by holding [...]

Printing Using a PC 21 B. CREA TING BARCODES IN NICELABEL a. Click the Barcode T ool Icon from the T oolbo x. b. Y ou will now have a Barcode Cursor that can be positioned anywhere within the Document W indow . P osition your cursor in the general area where you wish your barcode to print and click to start entering your barcode information. Once c[...]

22 Printing Using a PC iii. This contains four tabs, General , Check Digit , Human Readable and Details . iv . The General T ab allows you to choose the appropriate barcode type from the A vailable bar codes : menu. Y ou can choose one- or two -dimensional barcodes. Note that different barcode types have different requirements - some of them only a[...]

Printing Using a PC 23 When you change the barcode dimension directly from the screen by moving the drag handle, the changed dimension will also appear in this dialog box. Some of the barcode types also allow the definition of Narrow- to -wide bar ratio. It can only be set from the predefined steps in the pull-down menu - 1:2, 1:3 or 2:5. Base elem[...]

24 Printing Using a PC C. PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS Once the printer driver has been successfully installed, you will need to setup the driver with the appropriate print options. Refer to the following steps to change or verify your default printer driver preferences. These settings will apply to all new designs created in NiceLabel or other programs[...]

Printing Using a PC 25 NO TE on PC Settings : Most applications allow you to change these same printer driver options from their "Print" and/or "Printer Setup" screens. Some applications such as NiceLabel save your settings with the label, others use settings only for the current print job just sent to the printer . Paper Siz e [...]

26 Printing Using a PC Ink Sa tur ation This option controls the amount of ink used when printing an image. The default setting is 100%. If the ink is not drying fast enough or bleeding, you can decrease the Ink Saturation to lessen the amount of ink that is applied to the label. Car tridge Alignment Cartridge alignment will align the Cartridge for[...]

Printing Using a PC 27 Note: Y ou will be prompted to load label stock of 4"x 4" (101.6 mm x 101.6mm) or larger , into the printer . If you have stock of this size or larger , simply click OK . If not see Section 2H for instr uctions on loading a test sheet to complete the purge print. The printer will print a purge pattern where swaths o[...]

28 Printing Using a PC Sensor T ype Sensor T ype refers to the method the printer will use to detect the print starting position for each label. If you are using standard die-cut labels or Through-hole label material where a hole is punched through each label for alignment purposes use the Through-hole/Die- Cut setting. Use Reflective for black str[...]

Printing Using a PC 29 Enable Bi-di Printing This setting defaults to Y es for fastest printing. When enabled you will be required to perfor m an alignment print after a new cartridge is installed. Of fsets If your label is printing horizontally or vertically offset (printing on the liner or with white space left on the label) use these offset sett[...]

30 Printing Using a PC T op of F or m (TOF) This setting allows you to fine tune the print starting position on your label stock. This will be factory calibrated. If fine tun- ing is needed, increase this value to move the image down on the label. Decrease this value to move the image up the label. The unit of measure is 0.1mm. Click the T est butt[...]

T roubleshooting 31 Section 4: T r oubleshooting A. SOL VING REGISTRATION PROBLEMS Image is V ertically Offset The LX200 decides where to start printing by detecting the start of die-cut label, detecting a black mark on the back or detecting a thru-hole that cor responds to the start of the label. The following items can cause the label sensor to i[...]

32 T roubleshooting 2. Nonstandard / Non-translucent Backing Material . T est the unit with the label sample material that came with the unit. If it prints correctly , your label stock may not be compatible. The label sensor needs to see the difference between a label and a backing material by seeing through the label stock for light variations. If[...]

T roubleshooting 33 Note: Often times a space on the right (printers lef t) side indicates a margin around the label that is not being accounted for . The printer is factory calibrated for a 2mm margin. A larger mar gin around the label will cause a right (printers left) side space. P age Size. Often the page size is not large enough for the label.[...]

34 T roubleshooting B. CREA TING A FULL BLEED PRINT 1. If you are having trouble making the image cover the entire label, first make sure the image is printing at least as big as the label size you have selected. T o accomplish this using Nice Label, make the image a few millimeters larger than the label by dragging the image over the edge of the l[...]

T roubleshooting 35 C. CLEARING A LABEL JAM If there is a label jam in the printer mechanism first attempt to remove the jam by opening the cover and removing the jam from the printer feed output area. If the jam can not be located, it is possible to remove a cover over the feed input area. Pull on the center of the cover as shown below to release [...]

36 T roubleshooting E. CLEANING THE INK CARTRIDGE It may be necessary to clean the ink cartridge nozzles if you notice reduced print quality , or if you suspect an cartridge nozzle has become slightly dried out or clogged. If you are having print quality problems, follow the steps below: 1. Remove the print cartridge. 2. Moisten a lint-free cloth w[...]

Label and Roll Specifications 37 Section 5: Label and R oll Specifications Max Min Label/Print width 4.25" (108mm) 0.75" (19mm) Liner width 4.25" (108mm) 1" (25.4mm) Label height/length 24" (609.6mm) 0.75" (19mm) Gap between labels 0.75" (19mm) 0.10 (2.5mm) W idth of thr u-hole 0.5" (12.7mm) 0.375 (9.5mm) ope[...]

38 Label and Roll Specifications Max Min Distance from edge of 1.90" (48.3mm) 0.20" (5.1mm) media to edge of thru-hole Reflective/Black Equal to distance 0.10" (2.5mm) Mark W idth* between labels Max Outer Diameter (OD) 5.0"(127mm) N/A Inner Core Diameter (ID) see roll specifications below Stock Thickness .006” N/A (152 micron[...]

T echnical Specifications 39 Section 6: T echnical Specifications Print Method : Inkjet Print R esolutions : 4800 x 1200 dpi, 1200 x 1200 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi A ccessories: A label cutter (part # 074263) can be connected to the printer to cut labels as they are fed out of the printer . Ink Cartridge : #53377 Black Colors : 16.7 million Media T ypes :[...]

40 Index Inde x Barcode W izard ...................................................................17, 18, 21 Cartridge Alignment ................................................................13, 26 Cleaning Ink Cartridge ..................................................................36 Connecting P ower .......................................[...]

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