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Preventive Maintenance

ProMaster 2500 User Manual 5-59

Replacing a Thermal

Printer Ribbon

When the ribbon roll runs out install a new roll to replace it. Each new

ribbon roll has a long leader to thread through the labeler. Follow the

procedure below to install the new ribbon (refer to Figure 5-25).

1. Prepare the ribbon threading path by pushing the ribbon pinch roller

to the right.

2. Install the ribbon take-up core (one empty core is supplied with the

printer) on the ribbon take-up hub. After threading the ribbon, you

will tape the ribbon’s leader to this cardboard core.

3. Thread the ribbon leader over the ribbon alignment roller 1, over the

print head, and over ribbon alignment roller 2.

4. Thread the ribbon leader under the ribbon drive roller, over the

ribbon pinch roller, and down to the ribbon take-up roll (see Figure

5-25).

Figure 5-25

Threading the Ribbon in the Thermal Printer

2304-2

PRINT HEAD (Retracted position)

RIBBON ALIGNMENT ROLLER 2

RIBBON ALIGNMENT

ROLLER 1

RIBBON DETECT OPTIC

RIBBON ROLL

RIBBON PINCH

ROLLER

RIBBON DRIVE ROLLER

PLATEN

RIBBON TAKE-UP ROLL

APPLICATION AREA

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