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Label Printers

Faded Labels

This is caused by CORNMEAL

Clean the label printer every day, wipe it down with a damp clean cloth, and keep the inside to the printer clean.
Check the labels for cornmeal before it enters the printer, and if you find some cornmeal on the labels, clean it off.

Place the printer so the labels are under the overshelf for the cut table, this will prevent the cornmeal from dropping on the labels.

The Red and Blue arrows are showing the damage done by the Cornmeal to the print head.

The print heads for the Zebra printer are designed to last 100,000 printed labels, if they are taken are of correctly.

If you have labels that look like the pictures above:

The IT Department will order replacement print head and replace the worst one first, and work through the rest.

Labels that look like this are because the printer has been taken care of properly, but has printed 100,000 labels and needs to be replaced.

Insure the power light is on and solid green
Press and hold the feed button until the power light flashes one time, continue to hold the feed button until the power light flashes 2 times, then release the feed button
The label printer will now calibrate itself and feed out 2 blank lables
Reprint some labels to verify the printer is working correctly