Brady ID PRO Plus User Manual

• I.D. PRO Plus

• Introduction

• Basic Operations

• More line

• Feed alignment

• Serialization

• Standard and bold printing

• Tutorial

• Cleaning and Maintenance

• Troubleshooting

§ Features and Capabilities

§ Printer Comparison

§ Setup

§ Keyboard

§ Functions

§ Battery and ribbon Installation

§ Label installation and removal

§ Printing labels

§ Serialization

§ Most commonly asked questions

Features and capabilities

• The I.D. Pro Plus is a highly portable self contained printing machine.

• The I.D. Pro Plus uses three different material widths and can print on a variety of materials (i.e..paper,

polyester, vinyl cloth, self-laminating vinyl, nylon cloth, Tedlar ?, polyimide, and heat shrinkable materials).

• The I.D. Pro Plus allows printing up to eight lines of print and 15 characters on each line. It has three format

settings and two font sizes.

• It has Bold type print capabilities and is 43% faster than the I.D. Pro.

• It allows for numeric and alphabetic automatic serialization of text and can print multiple labels.

• The ribbon is a removable self re-inking R5000 series ribbon.

• It is battery operated and can be run while the battery is recharging.

• The I.D. Pro Plus has FCC class A approval and the battery charger is UL/CUL listed.

• More lines of discrete text: The I.D. PRO Plus wire marker printer speed has been increased to allow for

greater printed label throughput.

Printer comparison

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Alignment, vertical & horizontal alignment of te xt
Backing material out of unit
Bar code printing
Battery, N-Cad battery pack
Battery, plug-in type battery connector
Bold print
Built-in carrying handle
Case, durable injection mold
Case, hard carrying
Case, soft Carrying
Case, upper & lower case letters
Designed for electrical/electronic needs
Download legends into printer from PC
Keyboard, QWERTY
Label stock waste
Labels, uses BMXC-Style labels & sleeves
Lines, adjustable space between lines
Lines, display lines on screen
Paper out sensor
Prints labels as small as .125" high
Print sizes available
Prints terminal block ID strips
Print head, rugged shuttle print head
Power, power loading of material
RAM memory
Ribbon, easy load ribbon in cartridge
Registration, optical print registration
Registration, precise print registration
Rotate printing for terminal block strips
Serialization
Speed, printing speed
Symbols, special
Tear-off bar
Type, scalable
Volume: Good for high v olume work?
Warranty
Weight
Width printable
6 & 9 underlined

Features

BMXC

No
No

No
Yes
Yes

No

No

No

Included

N/A

Upper

Yes

No

No

Not much

Yes

No

2

Yes

No

4
No
No

Yes

8K
No

Yes

No
No

Yes

Good

No
No
No

YES

1 year

5 lbs.

1.5
No

LS2000

Yes

Power reverse

No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Optional
Optional

Both

Yes
Yes
Yes

None

Yes
Yes

4
Yes
Yes

125
Yes
Yes

Automatic

32K
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Good

Yes
Yes
Yes

YES

1 year

7 lbs.

2.5

Yes

ID PRO PLUS

Yes (vertical)

Yes

No
Yes
Yes
Yes

No
Yes

Optional

N/A

Upper

Yes

No

No

None

Yes

No

2
No
No

2
No

Yes
Yes

N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes

No

Yes

Good

Yes

No
No

NO

6 months

1.6 lbs.

1.5
No

Basic operations

Print Sizes

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Small = 12 CPI, .09375"H
Large = 8 CPI, .125"H

Formats

Strip - used when printing on Brady Strip series labels such that contain two or more butt cut pieces. Your text
will show only once on the screen but will be duplicate the text to the number of strips indicated when printing.

Center - automatically centers the text vertically to the total number of lines entered.

Wire/Repeat - repeats the text entered for the entire length of the label.

Keyboard

Clear - clears all characters from the screen .

Delete - deletes the character at the cursor position

Feed - advances the labels .

Shift - (3 shift keys; 1 is a keyboard key and 2 are in the hand grips

Print - prints the text displayed on the screen.

Enter - activates the size code at boot-up and acts as a return key to go to the next line .

Arrow Keys - move the cursor in the direction indicated on the key.

Serial - highlights the character to be serialized .

Functions

Feed alignment offset for small markers and labels

A new feed alignment (vertical registration) adjustment has been added. To obtain more accurate print registration
on 1-line labels and markers, the alignment can be changed plus or minus 3 dot lines:

1. Press Shift-1 key combination while in label text edit mode.

2. Press Up or Down arrow keys to change from -3 dot lines up to +3 dot lines.

3. Press Enter key. The printer will feed the next marker to complete registration.

4. Print label/marker.

5. If alignment is not acceptable, repeat steps 1 to 4.

Bold Print

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