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Chapter 3: Printer Menus and Configuring Your Printer
Fast Slew
Slew refers to the high speed paper motion that occurs whenever the printer moves paper more than one line. If your forms are thin or fragile such that output stacking is a problem, you can decrease the printer's slew speed by setting this parameter to Disabled. The default setting is Enabled.
Double Strike
When set to Enabled, the printer strikes each dot twice. Use this to get better print quality when you are printing on an exceptionally thick form. Default is
Disabled.
Enabling this option decreases the printer throughput by approximately
50%.
Quality (T6218 only)
The Quality panel menu setup option only applies to heavy forms printing on the T6218 printer model. If the Paper Weight setting is Light, printing throughput will always proceed at optimum speed.
If the Paper Weight setting is either Medium or Heavy and the Quality setting is Enhanced, the printing throughput rate will be reduced to ensure optimum print quality. The throughput reduction for the Heavy Paper Weight setting is greater than that for the Medium Paper Weight setting.
RibbonMonitor
Enables the Ribbon Monitor feature. The selections are Enabled and Disabled
(default).
The Ribbon Monitor feature helps the printer operator determine when to replace ribbons for optimum and consistent print quality. It works by counting the estimated number of characters printed as jobs are printed. Since ribbons are rated for an estimated number of characters, when the character count threshold is reached for the current ribbon the operator is notified via the panel that the ribbon needs to be replaced.
Ribbon Monitor can be disabled at any time. However, the characters printed count is reset to zero whenever Ribbon Monitor is enabled, so enabling the feature should only be done with a fresh ribbon.
If the Ribbon Monitor Fault occurs, and is cleared without the ribbon life threshold being increased or the ribbon count reset to zero, the “Replace Ribbon” message will reappear approximately every one million characters until one of these operations is performed. This message will also appear upon powerup if the ribbon count is above the threshold at that time.
RibnMon Thresh
Sets the ribbon life threshold of the Ribbon Monitor feature. The default setting is 40, assumming that a 40 million character ribbon is being used. This setting should be changed to 60 or 250 if a 60 million or 250 million character ribbon is used. The setting can be further refined based on the application being printed.
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