1. Open the cover.

2. Remove the stopper and take up any slack in the ribbon.

 The printer cannot detect the ribbon if it has any slack. Always be sure to take up the slack in the ribbon when installing a cassette.

 Dispose the removed stopper in accordance to local government regulation.

3. Install the ribbon cassette into the printer. Push the cassette until it clicks into place.

 If the ribbon cassette is loose, the ribbon may not be detected, so be sure to press it in until it clicks.

 Do not touch the connector (metal part)

Do not hold the connection terminal (metal part) of the cassette. Doing so could cause an improper recognition of the cassette.

4. Install the label tape cassette into the printer.

• Align the label tape cassette with the hole in the printer, then push the cassette in until it clicks into place.

 Confirm that the release paper is not peeled when setting the label cassette. Before setting, cut the part where the release paper is peeled or the end is not straight.

5. Remove the wrap-around tape guide.

6. Close the cover completely so that it clicks shut.

Label tape cassette

This is used to print characters on label tape.

Heat shrink tube cassette

This is used to print characters on heat shrink tube.

Wrap around tape cassette

This is used to print characters on wrap-around tape.

4mm I.D. strip cassette

This is used to print characters on 4mm I.D. strip.

Fig. 1

The label tape should be set as shown here.

Fig. 2

Here, the label tape has become wound up inside of the cassette.

Fig. 3

Use tweezers to pull out the label tape to the prescribed position.

1. Press the "|" side of the power switch.

• The startup display appears.

Startup display

• Character input display appears after displaying the ribbon cassette information.

 The character input display appears immediately if no ribbon cassette is installed.

Ribbon cassette information display

10W

+12V
-12V

Relay

1. Enter 10W.

 If you accidentally enter an incorrect character, press [Back Space] to delete the character and then enter the correct one.

2. Press [Enter].

• A new page appears, and the system waits for entry of more character data.

Indicates that another page precedes the currently displayed page.

3. Press [Style].

• Since the middle label has two lines, press [Style] to change the Line setting.

4. Press  or  to select 2: Line, then press [Enter].

• The Line setting display appears.

5. Press  or  to select 2: 2 Lines, then press [Enter].

The input display now has two lines.

6. Enter +12V.

7. Press either  or .

    If you press [Enter] instead of  or , a new page is created.

The cursor moves to the second line.

8. Enter -12V.

9. Press [Enter].

• A new page appears, and the system waits for additional character entry.

10. Press [Style].

• Since the third label has just one line, press [Style] to change the Line setting for the third label.

11. Press  or  to select 2: Line and then press [Enter].

• The Line setting display appears.

12. Press  or  to select 1:1 line and then press [Enter].

The input display now has one line.

13. Enter Relay.

• If you enter the wrong character, press [Back Space] to delete the character and then enter the correct one.

1. Press , ,  or  and move the cursor  to the 2.

2. Press [Back Space] to delete the 3.

3. Press 1 to enter the correct character.

1. Press [Delete].

• The Delete display appears.

 Even when all characters have been deleted, settings such as Format and Style are retained.

If two or more pages have been entered, the settings on the last page are retained.

2. Press [Enter].

• All characters on all pages are deleted.

1. Press [Print / Print Option].

• The print media selection display appears.

 No ribbon cassette is displayed if the ribbon cassette is not installed. Install the ribbon cassette.

 No ribbon information. No ribbon amount displayed. Press enter is displayed if the information cannot be read due to a ribbon cassette failure and so forth. If this message is displayed, follow the instruction on the screen.

 Print media is the material that you are printing on, such as a tube, heat shrink tube, label tape, wrap-around tape, 4mm I.D. strip, plate, or clear tube.

2. Press  or   to select 4: Label, then press [Enter].

• The label tape size (width) selection display appears.

 If 4mm I.D. strip is the selected media, the size display does not appear.

3. Press  or  to select 9mm, then press [Enter].

• The sets to print display appears.

 Rough amount of the remaining ink ribbon is displayed as shown. When the information of the cassette is not properly retrieved, the amount of the ribbon does not appear.

4. Press [Enter].

5. Confirm the location of the leading end of the loaded label tape, press  or  to select the input side, then press [Enter].

 If the leading end of the loaded label tape is at transport roller 2, select [IN], and if it is at the cutter side, select [OUT].

Canceling printing

If you press [Cancel], the message Aborting print appears and printing is aborted. In this case, the label tape that is currently being printed is cut and then ejected.

6. Take out the label.

• A half-cut label is ejected.

If label tape jams

Hold down [Cancel] until the printer beeps. The printer stops all operations immediately. In this case, the label tape is not cut and it is not ejected.

A small notch is cut between each label so that the labels can be easily separated.