Printing on Wrap around Tape (Turning on Power / Entering Characters / Printing) - Mk1500

Article ID: ART180391 | Date published: 09/13/2021 | Date last updated: 09/14/2021
 

Description

This article provides information on printing on wrap around tape with the Mk1500.

Solution

Turn the power switch on

Before turning the power switch on, make sure that the cassettes have been inserted properly, that the cover is closed, and that the AC adapter is connected.

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

Press the "|" side of the power switch

  • The startup display appears.

Startup display

Startup display

  • The character entry display appears after displaying the ribbon cassette information.

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

Ribbon cassette information display

Ribbon cassette information display

 Do not turn the power switch on and off rapidly

Turning the power switch on and off rapidly and repeatedly can cause misoperation and the loss of stored data.
 

Enter characters

ex. create three pieces of wrap-around tape of the following types.

Examples of wrap around tape

  1. Press [Caps Lock] to activate upper-case input mode.

Upper-case input mode activated

  1. Enter A-1.

Enter A-1

 

If you accidentally entered the wrong character

If you make a mistake when entering characters, correct it as follows.

ex. If you entered "A=1" instead of "A-1".

  1. Press Left arrowRight arrow to move the cursor  to the 1.

1 is highlighted

  1. Press [Back Space] to delete the "=".

Equals sign deleted

  1. Press [-] to enter the correct character.

Correct character entered

 

Deleting all entered text

Follow this procedure to delete all characters entered on all pages.

  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.

Delete display

  1. Press [Enter].

  • All characters on all pages are deleted.

 
 

Print

Once the characters have been entered, begin printing.

  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 cassette.
No ribbon information. No ribbon amount displayed. Press enter is displayed if the information cannot be read due to the ribbon cassette failure and so forth. If this message is displayed, follow the instructions 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, or clear tube.

Print media selection display

  1. Press Left arrow or Right arrow to select 6: Wrap around, and press [Enter].

  • The print quantity selection 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.

Print quantity selection display

  1. Press [3] and then [Enter].

  • Three pieces are printed.

Printing

  1. Confirm the position of the leading end of the wrap-around tape, press Left arrow or Right arrow to select the input side, then press [Enter].

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

Printing...

Canceling printing

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

  1. Take out the wrap around tape.

  • A half-cut tape is ejected.

If tape jams

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

A half-cut tape is ejected

The tape is half-cut so that it can be easily separated by hand.

 Attaching the wrap-around tape

  1. Peel the printed film from the wrap around tape backing.

 When wrapping, the laminating cover should sufficiently overlap the printed part. We recommend using with cable of 3 to 7.6 mm.

Peel the printed film from the wrap around tape backing

  1. Attach the tape to the cable as shown in the diagram, starting from the printed end.

Attach the tape to the cable, starting from the printed end

  1. Wrap the transparent laminating portion so that it covers the printed part.

Wrap the transparent laminating portion so that it covers the printed part

 If the film does not peel away from the backing

Because wrap around tape has a strong adhesive, it may be hard to peel the film off the backing. Refer to the following diagram for the peeling method.

Peeling method

 If the cut is too shallow

Wrap around tape is thicker than typical label tape, so the half-cut may be shallower.

 If the half-cut is too shallow, the film may not properly peel from the backing.

Peeling a shallow cut

 CANON FINETECH NISCA INC. shall not be responsible for damages that might result from the tape peeling off, or from fading of the printing on the tape.

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