Replacing the Ribbon

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• The print head and its surroundings are hot after printing. Be careful not to get burned. • Touching the edge of the print head with your bare hand could cause injury.

• Use merchandise from our specified suppliers on the product, for optimum print quality. • The routing path of the ribbon is shown in the below picture. Face-in ribbon Face-out ribbon • You can also check the path of the ribbon on the route sticker on the inner side of the front cover. • The button stops the warning lamp's buzzer (if a warning lamp is connected).

　

View the video below for the procedure.

1.	Open the front cover (1).

• Open the front cover fully to its limit.

2.	Open the head lock lever (2) to unlock it.

3.	Press the release button (3) on the tip of the ribbon rewind spindle to pull the ribbon rewind spindle out.

4.	Pull the used ribbon (4) off of the ribbon rewind spindle.

5.	Push the ribbon rewind spindle (5) all the way in.

6.	Extract the used ribbon core from the ribbon supply spindle (6).

7.	Load the ribbon (7) onto the ribbon supply spindle (6).

While taking note of the winding direction, insert the ribbon all the way in.

8.	Put the ribbon that is passing below the print head (8) against the grip sheet (9), and then wind the ribbon on the ribbon rewind spindle (5).

Turn the ribbon rewind spindle in the direction of the arrow for several rotations, to wind the ribbon.

* Inked side

• The diagram shows a face-in ribbon. The face-out ribbon is loaded on the ribbon supply spindle in the opposite orientation.

9.	Close the head lock lever (3).

10.	Close the front cover (1).

• When closing the front cover, be careful not to pinch your fingers.

11.	Press the button in Offline mode to feed media.

12.	Press the button.

13.	Press the button to change to Online mode.

14.	Do a print operation to confirm that the ribbon is loaded correctly.

• If you replaced the ribbon while printing was stopped, printing starts again automatically when the system goes back online.

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