And watch the loading the C6000 series video from Epson here:
Finally, please read this post anyway!!
With the launch of the C6000 series printers, the label business has
added a great new, affordable printer.
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| C6000 Series Label Printer |
Outstanding print quality, reliable, durable and for the most part easy
to use. I’ve written about this printer
a lot so far:
First Post: Introduction.
Fourth Post: Out of the Box Experience
Eighth Post: No Streaking.
Plus the C6000 series offers some unique features:
Movable sensor for printing circles:
But we have received one consistent complaint; initially, customers can
not get this printer to load the media correctly. And frankly, I had the same experience
initially myself. This post is an
attempt to eliminate the problems of loading the label media into the C6000
series printers; and preventing this issue from arising in the future.
Most important to remember: Only load the label media if the LED says,
LOAD PAPER:
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| C6000 Load Paper |
If you get the printer into an error state such as this warning (or any other warning):
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| C6000 Error Message |
Do NOT Attempt to load the paper at this point. Open up the media cover, remove the label from the media path, close the media cover, select pause, hit the Home button, turn off/turn on the printer, etc.; get the printer back to a “Load Paper” screen. You can not “go past go” until you have the load paper message.
Second, I recommend you configure the printer for the label media to
use on the LED first prior to loading. To configure the printer, arrow right
and select OK to go to the menu (hit OK to select any item on the menu):
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| C6000 LED Screen |
Media Setting is the first option; select OK:
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| C6000 Media Setting |
In the Media setting, set or ensure Media Type, Media Detect, Media
Source and Media Form is correct.
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| C6000 Media Detect |
FYI: Media Detect seems to be the most important as gap, blackmark or
continuous is an important aspect to make sure the printer does not error.
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C6000 Media Detect |
Third, make sure the spindle gears are on the left side as you face the
rear of the printer and the label come off the top:
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| C6000 Loading Media |
Fourth, close the media guides to hit each side of the label, and run
the label under the chrome media lip on each side of the guide:
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| C6000 Loading Labels |
Fifth load the labels under the black guide at the front of the media
path. See it here:
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| C6000 Media Path Lip |
The labels must go under this lip in order to feed correctly into the
printer. Once fed under this lip, the
printer will grab the labels, pull them down the paper path and startup. Watch how the printer grabs the paper and
starts up here:
And the media path should look like this picture below. Notice the black lip above the label media at
the front:
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| C6000 Loaded Labels |
Once loaded, the paper will find the gap or leading edge. You’ll see when the printer has found the gap
after it ejects a label:
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| C6000 Labels Loaded |
Then you’ll see “PAUSE” on the printer. Hit pause again and the LED
will read “READY” (or ink is low in my case. I never change the ink or
maintenance box until the printer stops):
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| C6000 Ready To Print |
By learning to load labels into the C6000 series printers correctly,
you’ll save time and frustration; and get to use this great new printer
quickly.
Purchase a C6000 series printer here:
Contact us to discuss how one of these new printers would fit into
your operation. If you already have one of these printers, contact us for labels and ink.
Guy Mikel
855-962-7670