GPRINTER GP-1324D User manual

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Direct Thermal Label Printer
User's Manual
GP-1324D

CONTENTS
1. The printer .............................................................................................. 01
1.1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 02
1.2 Product features ..................................................................................... 03
1.2.1 Standard equipment ....................................................................................................... 03
1.3 Specifications ........................................................................................ 03
1.4 Print specifications ........................................................................................ 04
1.5 The paper size ................................................................................................. 04
2. Product introduction ................................................................................................ 05
2.1 Open and check .............................................................................................. 05
2.2 Printer components ................................................................................................. 06
2.2.1 Appearance ................................................................................................................................. 06
2.2.2 Internal ......................................................................................................................... 07
3. Installation ...........................................................................................08
4. LED indicator function .......................................................................................... 08
5. Troubleshooting .................................................................................................... 13
6. Maintenance ............................................................................................15
3.1 Install the printer ...................................................................................... 08
4.1 LED indicator ........................................................................................ 08
4.1.1 Direct thermal printing ................................................................................................. 08
4.2 Button Function ....................................................................... 09
4.3 Start function ......................................................................................... 09
5.1 Common problem ......................................................................................... 13
6.1 Printer Cleaning ...........................................................................................15
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4.3.1 Self-test ............................................................................................................10
4.3.2 Dump mode ......................................................................................................11
4.3.3 Printer Initialization ...........................................................................................11
4.3.4 Print DIP Switch function ..................................................................................12
4.3.5 Skip AUTO.BAS ...............................................................................................12

The printer
Introduction
Application Field
Manufacturing & Warehousing logistic industry
Healthcare
Parcel Post
Office & Studio
Retail
Product labeling and marking
Warehouse management label
Category marking label
Operation instruction marking label
Distributing instruction marking label
Patients marking
Medicine marking
Specimen marking
Mailing label
Price Label marking
Product item marking
Jewelry product marking
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Thanks for choosing GP-1324D series direct thermal label printer
This series printer inner volume is fit for 5" OD (Outer Diameter) paper roll, if
using external paper holder, you can install 8.4"OD industrial grade label roll.
This printer is designed for real-time and batch label printing, with standard
USB port. Direct thermal printing are available in printer body, you can choose
various kinds of printing materials, for example: thermal paper, plastic paper,
fan fold paper etc.
Common 1D barcode and 2D barcode fonts are built inside printer, also it
support 4 direction printing, characters can be enlarged from 1 to 10 times.
Besides, it supports 5 different size bitmap fonts, OCR-A and OCR-B fonts,
together with 203dpi higher print resolution, this series printer are your best
choice among the same class.
Declaration: This is a class A product, fit for Non Tropic regions installation.
This product may cause radio interference in life environment, users may need
to take adequate preventive measures.

1.2 Product features
Standard equipment
Specifications
Support bar code Support picture format
Support picture format
Power Supply
Printer weight
Models
Printer size
Can print text, bar code, pictures
Product standard
Thermal printing
ABS plastic housing
Gap sensor
The print head open sensor
Communication interface
Memory
Memory
The paper key and LED indicating lamp
Built in 8 dot matrix font English number
The character and the bar code can be printed in four directions
of rotation (0,90,180,270) degree.
Built in simplified Chinese, traditional and Korean font for
programming.
The built-in voltage automatic switching power supply
Work environment Dampness
Dampness
Storage environment
203DPI/300DPI
GP-1324D
180(W) X 176(H) X 238(D) mm
Black mark sensor
Interface
USB
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Print specifications
Models
Models
The print head
Print mode
1. 5 The paper size
Pulse excitation
(the size) (width X length)
Print speed (inches per second)
Maximum print width
Maximum print length
Heat sensitive piece (wear)
Label length
The paper height gap spacing
Roll axis size
The thickness of the paper
(tag + bottom paper)
The width of the paper
(tag + bottom paper)
The paper winding form
Paper type
The maximum capacity of
internal paper roll diameter
Print out of plane roll / print surface involute
Continuous paper, gap of paper, paper folding, punched paper
Note: If you use the tag length less than 25.4mm (1 "),
recommend the use of a perforated line in the gap on
the label paper so the tear.
50km
Max.118mm (4.64")
GP-1324D
GP-1324D
203dots/inch(8dots/mm)
0.125x0.125mm
(1mm = 8dots)
2~8 inch/s
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Product introduction
Open and check
This series printer is with special package to prevent damage in transportation. If there is
any unexpected damage occurred, please put in clean and stable surface and carefully open
the package to check, inform local distributor with damage details, and keep packing mate
-rials well in case you need to mail the printer.
Packing list:
◆ One Label printer
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◆ CD ( Driver, Nice label software, User Manual )
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◆ Power Adapter
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◆ Power Cord
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◆ USB cable ( Serial cable optional)
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◆ Label roller & Label paper
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Please pack equipment and materials needed for safekeeping printer for subsequent handling;
if the above items, any lost or missing, please Customer Service Department of your purchase
contact.
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Printer components
Appearance
LED lights indicate:
★ ON LINE electric ★ ERROR error indicatorindicator
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PAUSE button
LED indicator
Feed button
Press button for top cover open
Label entrance from external holder
Power
USB
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Internal
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Media guide
Gab /Black mark sensor
Platen roller
Top cover
Paper roll
Fixing stand of paper roll
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Installation
Install the printer
1. Please put the printer on the stable surface.
2. Make sure printer power is turned off, please do not plug
the power cable when the printer power is turned on.
3. Connect serial or USB or Parallel or Ethernet cable to
printer and PC.
4. Connect power plug to power supply socket.
Be careful:
※ Please turn off the power switch the printer in the power socket,
※ Transmission interface in the picture will vary depending on your printer
purchased aircraft type, the actual transmission interface, please refer to
the corresponding product specifications
power line is inserted into the printer.
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LED Indicator and Function
There’re two buttons and three LED indicators, many functions can be realized through using
different button, indicator and power on/off switch.
LED indicator
Direct thermal printing method
LED Indicator status Descriptions
Power indicator is on，Error indicator is off Printer is powered on and in normal
printing status
Power indicator flashes every 640ms,
Error indicator is off
Printer is paused
Power indicator is off, Error indicator goes
for 80ms, then goes off for 160ms, printer
start beeping.※
on Printer cover is opened
Power indicator is off
for 500ms, then goes off for 6s
, Error indicator goes on Label gap detection error
Power indicator is off Error indicator flashes
every 160ms, after two times flashing, Error
indicator goes off for 320ms, printer start
beeping. ※
, Paper out
Power indicator is off Error indicator flashes
every 160ms,after three times flashing,Error
indicator goes off for 320ms, printer start
beeping. ※
, Black mark detection error
Error indicator flashes every160ms. Printer overheated protection mode is act-
ivated. After 1 minute, the printer CPU will
check print head temperature again. When
temperature return normal, printer will work
normally.
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Button Function
Feed
When the printer is ready (LED blue fixed), click the button, label paper into the front end of a paper label.
Print job timeout
The printer in the print, click the PAUSE button to print suspended. At this time power indicator is
blue flashing. Just click the button, the print job resume normal.
Start function
The printer has five kinds of power function can be used to set or test the printer hardware. In the
boot and press the button with lamp signal release key can start these functions.
Five Power-up Functions:
Function Descriptions
Self-test page A.Turn off the printer.
B.Make sure the paper roll is installed correctly and the printer
top cover is closed.
C.Press and hold FEED button and turn on the printer. Self-
test page will be printed, then release FEED button.
You can use this function to check if printing function is normal or not.
Print DIP Switch page
Debugging Mode
A.Turn off the printer.
B.Make sure the paper roll is installed correctly and the printer
top cover is closed.
C.Press and hold PAUSE button and turn on the printer. When
paper feed and then release PAUSE button, DIP switch page
will be printed out.
A.Turn off the printer.
B.Make sure the paper roll is installed correctly and printer
top cover is closed.
C.Press and hold PAUSE and FEED button, and turn on the
printer. When Power indicator(blue) and Error indicator
(red) are on at the same time, release PAUSE and FEED
button, printer goes to Debugging Mode, and you will find
below page printed out:
Printer Initialization A.Turn off the printer.
B.Press and hold PAUSE and FEED button, then turn on the
printer. When Power indicator(blue)is on and Error indi
-cator (red) is off, release PAUSE and FEED button, all
data in printer DRAM will be cleared and printer setting
will be restored to factory default setting. Then power
indicator will be on and printer goes to ready status.
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Skip AUTO.BAS program
User can use TSPL2 command to save a code auto-
running file (AUTO.BAS) into flash. When turn on printer,
printer will run the program automatically.
If you want to skip AUO.BAS program on power-up,then
follow below steps:
Press and hold PAUSE and FEED button, then turn on the
printer. When Power indicator (blue) is off and Error indi
-cator(red)is on, release PAUSE and FEED button, printer
will skip running AUTO.BAS program, and then Power
indicator will be on.
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