Citizen CT-S4000DCL, CT-S4000L User Manual

LINE THERMAL PRINTER

MODEL CT-S4000L/CT-S4000DCL

4.6 Error Indication

The following LED indications are added to CT-S4000L/CT-S4000DCL.

Status POWER LED ERROR LED Buzzer

Wait for cutting label OFF

Paper detection error OFF

User’s Manual

Refer to CT-S4000/CT-S4000DC User’s Manual of standard model when reading this manual.

Contents

1.1 Features

4.6 Error Indications

5.3 Manual Setting of Memory Switch

5.4 Selecting Paper Type

5.5 Adjusting Paper Sensor

5.6 Printing Paper

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5.3 Manual Setting of Memory Switch

Functions of memory switches SW4-4 and SW4-5 of CT-S4000L/CT-S4000DCL are as shown below. (The white-on-black characters are factory setting.)

Memory Switch Function 0 (OFF) 1 (ON)

SW4-4 Paper Select Thermal Roll BM.P/Lbl.P *

SW4-5 Position detect Black Mark Label

* The Print Width 660 dots is not available for printing a label paper. * The memory switches SW2-8 will be ignored for Label.

5.4 Selecting Paper Type

Paper type selection is available by the combination of memory switches SW4-4 and SW4-5 by the used of “Memory Switch Select Mode”. In addtion, the following procedure is available.

1 Enter Selecting Paper Type mode.

1)Open the printer cover and remove paper. Pressing and holding the FEED button, turn the printer power ON. The POWER LED starts blinking.

2)Release the FEED button and then close the printer cover. Buzzer sounds and the paper type currently set is indicated by the LED on the operation panel.

2 Select Paper Type.

Press the FEED button to match the paper type loaded to the LED indications in the table below. (Refer to the table below.)

1.1 Features

●High-speed printing at a maximum of 120 mm/sec

●2-dimensional barcode

●Label of nonstep 58 to 105 mm wide as well as 112 mm is usable

●Paper sensor sensitivity adjustment by variable resistor is adopted.

Label

Thermal paper roll

Black Mark paper

POWER LED ERROR LED

Green lit (OFF)

(OFF) Red lit

Green lit Red lit

3Save the selected Paper Type to the Printer.

Open and close the printer cover. By this operation, selected paper type is stored in the printer memory and the Selecting Paper Type mode is terminated. Since then, "P.Length Set" of Memory switch 4-1 becomes disable. When closing the printer cover during the setting a Black Mark paper or label paper in the printer, paper length is measured, and the result will be printed out.

* If Paper Detection error occurs at the measurement of paper length, the printer

automatically enters Adjusting Paper Sensor mode. Adjust the sensor in accordance with “5-5 Adjusting Paper Sensor”.

5.5 Adjusting Paper Sensor

Before using Black Mark paper (BM paper) or label, adjust the Paper sensor. First, hold the lever at the upper end of the sensor adjustment control cover located at the left of the Power switch and press the lever down and toward the front to remove the cover from the printer. As shown below, the most left one is a label paper sensor adjuster, the next is Black Mark paper sensor adjuster, and the right one is a level indicator LED. Adjust them in the following procedure.

Metal frame

Level indicator LED

Black Mark sensor

Label light receiving sensor

Label light emitting sensor

3Adjust Paper Sensor.

Turn the corresponding adjuster counterclockwise by using a tapered flat screwdriver. Set the adjuster at the position where LED begins to change from orange to green.

Turning the adjuster counterclockwise

Label paper sensor adjuster

Black Mark paper sensor adjuster

1 Enter Adjusting Paper Sensor mode.

Open the printer cover, remove paper, and then set the printer power switch to ON. Here, POWER LED and ERROR LED go on with the buzzer sound. Then close the printer cover while pressing the FEED button. The ERROR LED starts blinking with the buzzer sound.

2 Set Paper to be adjusted to the Printer.

This printer has three types of built-in paper sensors. In case of label, set it so that label is positioned on the label light receiving sensor and label light emitting sensor. In case of Black Mark paper, set it so that the printable portion (other than black mark) is positioned on the Black Mark sensor. With this state kept, closing the printer cover causes ERROR LED to blink with the buzzer sound.

Green Orange Red

* While turning the adjuster by the screwdriver, do not let the part of the

screwdriver touch the metal frame. Otherwise proper LED light color will not be displayed while touching.

4Perform Paper Measuring operation

When the FEED button is pressed, label is fed and paper measuring is carried.If the FEED button is presed during the paper measuring, the result will be printed out as

follows, and the printer memory switch will be initialized.

* The measuring result is a reference value

Label Length Gap Length

< Example of label measuring result >

XXXmm

XXmm

showing a label length

showing a gap between labels

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