FARGO electronic DTC500 - Manual (Page 126)

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DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encoders User Guide (Rev. 5.0) 126
Resolving the incomplete Resin Printing problems
Symptom: Black resin text and barcodes appear faded or too light, as shown below.
Step Procedure
1 Reduce the Resin Heat setting within the Image Color tab of the Printer driver.
See the Using the Image Color tab procedure in Section 3, page 167. See the
next page.
a. Open the Printer control panel from the computer.
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If using Windows 95/98/ME, right click on the DTC500 Series Card
Printer Icon and select Properties.
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If using Windows NT 4.0, right click on the DTC500 Series Card Printer
and select Document Defaults.
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If using Windows 2000/XP, right click on the DTC500 Series Card Printer
and select Printing Preferences.
b. Click on the Image Color tab.
c. Adjust the Resin Heat to a more positive value in increments of 5%.
OR
Correct the Image Darkness in the LCD. See the Adjusting the Image Darkness
procedure in Section 8, page 264. See the next page.
a. Select Menu from the LCD.
b. Select Setup Printer and then select Image Darkness.
c. Adjust the current value to a more positive number in increments of 2.
Continued on the next page