Partner Lp-1625 User manual

Thermal Transfer Barcode Printer

User Manual

LP-1625

Specification is subject of change without prior notice.

CONTENTS

The printer

Introduction

Product features

Standard equipment

Optional accessories

Specifications

Print specifications

Ribbon specifications

The paper size

Product introduction

Open and check

Printer components

Appearance

Internal

The bottom

Installation

LED indicator function

Troubleshooting

Maintenance

Install the printer

Install the ribbon

Installation of paper

LED indicator

Thermal printing

Thermal transfer printing

Button Function

Start function

Common problem 13

6.1.Printer Cleaning

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1.2

1.2.1

1.2.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

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2.2

2.2.1

2.2.2

2.2.3

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.3.1

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4.1.1

4.2.2

4.2

4.3

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The printer

Introduction

Thanks for choosing series direct thermal and thermal transfer label printer.hLP-1625

This series printer is built with 2 sets of gear to drive motor, with capability of handling 300

meters long ribbon and large label roll. 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 serial, parallel, USB

and Ethernet connection port. Direct thermal printing and thermal transfer printing modes are all

in one printer body, so you can choose various kinds of printing materials, for example: thermal

paper, plain paper, coated paper, silver paper, plastic 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 preven

-tive measures.

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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Product features

Standard equipment

Specifications

Support bar code Support picture format

Support picture format

Power Supply

Printer weight

Specifications

Printer size

Can print text, bar code, pictures

Product standard

Ribbon printing

Thermal printing

ABS plastic housing

Gap sensor

Ribbon sensor

The print head open sensor

Communication interface

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

203

Work environment Dampness

Dampness

Storage environment

278(W)X210(D)X180(H)

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Print specifications

Model

The print head

Print mode Ribbon / thermal

Ribbon specifications

The paper size

The outer coil type

Pulse excitation

(the size) (width X length)

Print speed (inches per second)

Maximum print width

Maximum print length

Heat sensitive piece (wear)

Ribbon diameter

The ribbon length

The ribbon axis size

The ribbon width

Ribbon winding form

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

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1.6

1.5

1.4

Max. 120mm(4.72")

Min. 20mm(0.78")

Max. 0.254mm(10mil)

Min. 0.06mm(2.36mil)

25.4mm~38mm(1"~1.5")

10mm~2286mm(0.39"~90")

2~6inch/s

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Emulation 341625001 with cutter, TSPL emulation

341625002 without cutter, TSPL emulation

341625003 with cutter, ZPL emulation

341625004 without cutter, ZPL emulation

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 (Parallel cable, serial cable optional)

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◆ Ribbon roller& Ribbon

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◆ Label roller & Label paper

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.

PAUSE bu tto n

Cover- ope n button

FEED but ton

LED indi cat or

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Printer components

Appearance

LED lights indicate:

★ ON LINE electric lamp ERROR error lamp RIBBON ribbon status light ★ ★

PAUSE button

Cover-open button

FEED button

LED indicator

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Internal

Note: Picture showing printer port is for .LP-1625

Parallel Port

Power port Bottom cover ( DIP switch inside)

Serial port

Ethernet port

USB port

External paper entrance

Top cover

Ribbon take-up hub

Ribbon take-up running wheel

Label paper fixing stand

Print media

Print head open button

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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.

Ribbon installation

2.Load ribb on le ft si de fi rst a nd then

right side , fix i t wel l.

3.Press the b utt on to o pen r ibb on

holder uni t as pe r pic tur e

4.Insert bl ue ri bbo n rol ler i nto

the empty ro ll fo r rib bon c oll e

cting afte r pri nte d

5.Load the em pty r oll l eft s ide

first, the n rig ht si de.

6.Pull out ri bbo n and s tic k ont o

the empty ro ll. M ake s ure r ibb on

is flat and sm oot h whe n tou ch

print head .

7.Put ribbo n hol der b ack t o its

position a s pic tur e sho win g.

8.Careful ly cl ose t op co ver ,

press it til l you h ear d “DA ” sou nd.

Ribbon loa din g

1.Insert bl ue ri bbo n rol ler i nto

new ribbon .

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Ribbon installation diagram

Installation of paper

Print head

Paper guide

Gap & black ark sensor

Empty ribbon roll

Ribbon

Print media

Print media Loading

1.Press two buttons on printer two

sides to lift a nd open the cover.

2.Load print media into the printer;

adjust the paper guide to be same

width of print media.

3.Pull out the print media till it pass ga p sensor and cutter

(cutter is optional), complete me dia loading.

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Paper installation diagram

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

on for 80ms, then goes off for 160ms,

printer start beeping.※

Printer cover is opened

Power indicator is off

on for 500ms, then goes off for 6s

, Error indicator goes

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 160ms,after three times

flashing, Error indicator goes off for 320ms,

printer start beeping.

every

※

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.

※ Beeper function can be enabled through setting DIP switch.

Thermal transfer printing

LED Indicator status Description

Ribbon indicator is on Ribbon is installed successfully

Ribbon indicator flashes every 300ms,

beeper sounds every 2.4s ※

Ribbon improperly installed: no ribbon,

or ribbon end, or ribbon broken

Print head

Paper guide

Gap & black ark sensor

Empty ribbon roll

Ribbon

Print media

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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 six 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.

Six 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

All label data received in this mode will be printed by machine

code. Right side is ASCII character strings, left side are hexadecimal

value of ASCII character strings. This function is for user or engineer to

debug the program. If you turn off printer and then turn on, printer

will go back to normal printing mode.

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:

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Skip AUTO.BAS program User can use TSPL2 command to save a code auto-

-ing file (AUTO BAS) into flash. When turn on printer,

-ter will run the program automatically.

runn

. prin

If you want to skip AUTO . 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.

Printer Initialization A. Turn off the printer.

B. Press and hold and button, then turn on the PAUSE FEED

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.

* Factory default settings do not include ribbon setting.

Ribbon Detection When printer power turn on, or it is in thermal transfer

printing mode, printer will automatically detect

ribbon status, to check if ribbon installed, or ribbon

end, or work normally. After ribbon detecting, printer

will be set to thermal transfer printing mode or direct

thermal printing mode. If no ribbon, system will go to

direct thermal printing mode and close ribbon rolling

motor function.

The printer configuration after the initialization will revert to the default values are as follows:

Parameter

Default setting

Speed

Density

Gap

Direction

4inch/sec 101 6mm/sec), 203dpi

0mm

( .

OFF

CLEAR

NOT CLEAR

Top left corner from printing direction

Printing content are placed on page from

top to bottom

Reference

SHIFT

OFFSET

SET TEAR

SET HEAD(Cover open detect)

Set PRINTKEY

SET REPRINT

SET KEY1(FEED)

SET KEY2(PAUSE)

CLEAR RAM

CLEAR FLASH

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Problems Possible Reasons Solution and Suggestion

Power indicator

not "ON”

Troubleshooting

Common problem

Below the table of contents is generally the common problems and solutions; if you have been in

our proposed methods of eliminating the fault, and the printer is not normal operation, so check

with your purchase customer service department, so as to get more help.

Plug to AC outlet and plug to

printer not well connected

Check power connector and AC outlset

if plugs are correctly connected

Printer power not turned on Turn on power switch

Print head not well closed Close print head by pressing whole print

head mechanism (or 2 arrow locations)

Ribbon end

Label paper jamed inside printer

Change new ribbon

Ribbon improperly installed Refer to Ribbon Installation steps in User

Manual to re-install ribbon

Label paper end Change new label paper

Label paper improperly installed Refer to Paper Installation steps in User

Manual to re-install paper

Gap sensor detection error Adjust paper specification and

print again

Clear jamed paper

Not printing

Serial cable improperly

connected

1. Check if Pin configuration in cable two

sides are matching each other;

2. Check if baud rate setting on PC and

printer are the same, If in TPSL comma

-nd mode, We suggest 9600, n, 8, 1 to

ensure higher reliability.

3. Change a new cable.

Ethernet cable improperly

connected

1.Check if RJ-45 green/orange LED

indicator is on. When printer receive

and process printing data, LED will be

orange color;

2.Check if printer IP is assigned in

DHCP mode.

3.Check if fixed IP address is correctly

set in printer property. Wait for some

minutes to make sure printer is connect

-ed server and printing a selftest page

to confirm printer IP address.

4.Change a new ethernet cable .

USB cable improperly

connected

Check if USB cable connected well or

change a new cable

Ribbon non standard Check if ribbon model and

specification

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Not printing

Ribbon printing side wrong

installed

Check and re-install ribbon to make

sure printing side touch label paper

Print head not clean Clean print head and print again

Print density setting wrong Suggest density set to be 7

Print head cable not well

connected

Re-connect print head cable

Step Motor cable not well

connected

Re-connect step motor cable

Command setting wrong Check if there is PRINT command

at the end of printing file;

or if there is CRLF command at the

end of every line.

Not good

printing quality

Ribbon and label improperly

installed

Too much dust or adhesive on

print head

Re-install ribbon and/or label

Clean print head and print again

Print head damaged Take selftest page to check if printing

are completely to confirm if necessary

to change new print head

Data miss printing

in one or two sides

Label paper size wrong

setting

Check if label size set correctly and

same as your label paper

Ribbon wrinkle

Printing not stable Printer in HEX Dump mode or

RS-232 setting wrong

Print head unbalanced stress;

ribbon & label improperly

installed;

Label feeding not smoothly

Reset the label print density and

adjust paper width fixing stand to

fit your label paper size.

Restart your printer and leave Dump

Mode or reset RS-232 PARAMETER

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Maintenance

6.1.Printer Cleaning

To ensure the printing quality, please proceed this maintenance section to keep your printer

in good conditions and extend its life as well

Please use one of following material to clean the printer.

★ Cotton swab

★ Lint-free cloth

★ Vacuum / Blower brush

★ 100% ethanol

2.The cleaning process is described as following：

Parts to be cleaned Step Recommend cleaning frequency

Print head

Rubber roller

Paper tear bar

Sensor

Inner side of printer

1. Turn off the printer.

2. Allow the print head to cool for

at least one minute.

3. Use a cotton swap and 100%

ethanol to clean the print head

surface.

When change new label paper

Thermal transfer printing head

Thermal transfer

printing head

Direct thermal printing head

1 Turn off the printer.

2. Rotate the platen roller and use

a cotton swap to clean with

100% ethanol.

When Change new label paper

Use a cotton swap and 100%

ethanol to clean.

When necessary.

Use air brush or vacuum to clean

dust of sensor.

Monthly.

Use air brush or vacuum to

the dust

clean

Note:

※ Always turn off the printer power before cleaning the printer

※ Do not touch print head by figure.

※ Please use 100% ethanol, Do not use medical alcohol to aviod damage to print head.

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