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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.	Confirm that the ribbon rewind spindle (2) is pressed all the way in.

3.	Open the head lock lever (3) to unlock it.

4.	Load the ribbon (4) onto the ribbon supply spindle (5).

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

5.	Pass the ribbon below the print head (6), wind the ribbon in the direction of the arrow around the ribbon rewind spindle (2) to the grip sheet (7).

Turn the ribbon rewind spindle counterclockwise for several rounds, 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.

6.	Close the head lock lever (3).

If the media is not loaded, load the media.

7.	Close the front cover (1).

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

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

9.	Press the button.

10.	Press the button to change to Online mode.

11.	Do a print operation to confirm that the media and ribbon are loaded correctly.

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