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Chapter 2
This chapter contains the following topics for setting up your printer:
• Unpacking Your Printer
• Setting up Your Printer
• Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
• Loading Paper
• Installing Printer Driver
Setting up Your Printer
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Unpacking Your Printer
Before you begin to install your printer, check if you have the following items: printer
Unpacking Your Printer paper cassette documentation software CD
USB cord power cord
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Setting up Your Printer
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Connect the power cord to the power connection.
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Connect the printer to your computer using the USB cord.
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Insert the ribbon cartridge into the printer. For more information, see
Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges on Page 6 of the user guide.
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Place paper into the paper cassette. For more information regarding how to load the paper, see
Loading Paper on
Page 7 of the user guide.
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Turn the printer power switch on. The green led light blinks and becomes stable after 5 seconds. Before you turn on the power switch, make sure the printer driver software is installed in your personal computer.
6.
The New Hardware Found message box appears on the screen of your computer. Windows starts to install the printer driver software by copying files to your computer.
For more information about installing printer driver, see
Printer Driver Details on Page 59 of the user guide.
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Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
HiTi 640 DL photo printer simplifies the steps of installing or replacing ribbon cartridges to three steps only. To avoid unexpected error messages, you must use genuine HiTi supplies. Using other company's ribbon cartridges may result in serious damage to your printer.
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Warning: The HiTi ribbon cartridges can be purchased from HiTi dealers.
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Move the slider to open the top cover of the printer.
If you're replacing a ribbon cartridge, lift the old one out and discard it.
Hold the ribbon cartridge as the figure illustrated. Be sure to point the arrow sign towards the left-hand side of the printer.
3.
Insert the cartridge all the way into the printer until it is completely installed.
4.
Close the top cover.
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Loading Paper
Hi-Ti 640 DL photo printer allows you to print different types of paper and sticker for your digital photos. Again, to avoid unexpected error message, you must use genuine HiTi photo paper. Using other company's photo paper will result in paper jam and color shift errors.
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Warning: dealers.
The HiTi paper can be purchased from HiTi
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Pull out the paper cassette from the printer. Open the cover of the paper cassette.
Note: HiTi provides different paper cassettes for loading photo paper and sticker paper. The photo paper cassette is the standard accessory item when you purchase the HiTi photo printer while the sticker paper cassette is not. Although the photo paper cassette is able to load with sticker paper, it is recommended that you purchase the sticker paper cassette to prevent unnecessary paper jam errors.
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Loading Paper
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Loading Paper
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Place a stock of paper into the paper cassette. The printer allows you to load 100 sheets at a time in maximum.
• Load the paper with print side (glossy) face-up; the printed photo faces up in the output tray. Be sure the paper is in the direction with the narrow edge side sitting at the inner side of the paper cassette.
• Do not touch the print (glossy) side of the paper with your fingers. Always hold the paper along the edges
(outside the perforated border).
• Do not bend or tear off perforated edges on the paper before printing.
• Never print on a sheet of paper more than once. The coating applied to the paper. Reused paper will stick to the ink sheet, resulting in damage to the printer.
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• Use one kind and one size of paper at a time. Do not mix paper types or sizes in the paper cassette.
Make sure the paper fits close to the edges of the paper cassette. This helps the paper to feed into the printer correctly.
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Insert the paper cassette back into the printer.
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Installing Printer Driver
Before you can use HiTi photo printer to print your digital photos, you first need to install the printer driver to the computer with which the printer is connected.
Note: When you set up the printer for the first time, be sure to turn off the printer before you begin to install printer driver software.
1.
Insert "Software CD" into CD-ROM drive. The Software
CD can be found in the package that is shipped with the printer.
2.
The HiTi Welcome window appears on the screen.
Choose Install HiTi Photo Printer 640 DL Driver.
3.
The Installing Printer Driver message box appears on the screen. Click Start to begin installing the printer driver or click Exit to quit the installation process.
4.
On the Set Default Printer message box, click Yes to set
HiTi Photo Printer as the default printer.
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Installing Printer Driver
Note: Hi-Ti provides three ways for installing printer driver.
For detailed descriptions, refer to the Appendix,
Driver Management section in this user manual.
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