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Install the drawn media to the paper tube.
Tape
(1) Check the take-up direction, remove the slack of the
media, and then make sure that the media is not
deviated on the supply side and the takeup side.
(2) With tape hold the media straight at the center, and
then at the rest six positions in the direction from the
media center to the media edge.
Inner take-up:
Media is taken up
with its print surface
comes inside.
Note
- Be careful of the tape affixing direction on the takeup side.
- If the media is set with a distortion or wrinkles, this may cause a
media jam or skew.
8
Set the take-up direction switch according to
the take-up direction.
9
Advance the media with the FORM FEED MENU
on the operation panel to wind it around the
paper tube by one turn. Then set the take-up
direction switch to OFF.
Note
- If the tension bar is attached without winding the media by
one turn, the tape will peel off.
Paper tube
Outer take-up:
Media is taken up
with its print surface
comes outside.
Take-up direction switch
OFF
Outer take-up
- OFF
Inner take-up
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Advance the media with the FORM FEED
MENU on the operation panel to an extent
where a slack can be created.
Be sure to create a sufficient slack so that the tension
bar is placed at the bottom of the tension bar guide.
Tension bar guide
11
Open the tension bar guide's cover.
12
Place the tension bar at the bottom of the
tension bar guide.
Note
- When the tension bar does not reach the tension bar guide's
bottom, feed the media with the operation panel's FEED menu.
Confirm that tension bar was placed securely at the tension bar
guide's bottom.
13
Close the tension bar guide's cover.
14
Press the take-up direction switch according to
the take-up direction.
Note
- If the media slack is secured excessively, the take-up reel unit may
keep winding the media for more than the prescribed time, and a
take-up timeout error occurs. In such a case, turn off the take-up
direction switch, and then press the switch again.
Printer front (takeup side)
Tension bar
Take-up direction switch
Outer take-up
- OFF
OFF
Inner take-up
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