Rice Lake SURVIVOR SST3 Washdown Printer - Manual (Page 4)

Introduction 1
About This Manual
This manual is intended for use by technicians responsible for setting up and servicing the SURVIVOR ® SST3 TM
printer. Along with this manual, the Datamax ® M Class TM Mark II Operator’s Manual (RLWS PN 77562) is on a
CD-ROM and accompanies the SST3. It gives an overview of the operation, calibration, and in-depth
maintenance of the printer. (The Datamax manual can also be viewed or downloaded at the RLWS web site at
www.ricelake.com .)
The following service procedures are intended to instruct you on how to:
• Understand features and specifications of the SST3.
• Set up communications parameters.
• Perform general printer maintenance.
Great care should be taken when opening and closing the SST3 enclosure to ensure that fingers and
cables are not in the way of the enclosure cover.
Some procedures described in this manual require work inside the printer enclosure.
These procedures are to be performed by qualified service personnel only.
Authorized distributors and their employees can view or download this manual from the
Rice Lake Weighing Systems distributor web site at: www.ricelake.com .
1.0 Introduction
The SURVIVOR SST3 is a high-performance, high-speed direct thermal and optional thermal transfer industrial
washdown label printer.
Features include:
• Print speed of up to 10 inch per second (254 mm/sec).
• Common bar codes are resident in SST3 memory and can be printed with or without adjacent human
readable bar code interpretations.
• Character fonts can be printed in any one of four directions and with any one of nine different font sizes.
In addition, a resident smooth font, called CG Triumvirate, can be separately selected and contain 10
different font sizes. By using font multiplication, font size expands vertically and horizontally up to 24
times.
• Connects to most computers and controllers through either RS-232, USB or the Centronics parallel
interface.
• Optional Ethernet and/or wireless network communication.
• Software-selectable printhead temperature, print speed, slew rates and form dimensions provide the
option of storing a wide variety of parameters, thus eliminating the need for manual adjustments. This is
especially helpful when using several different types or brands of label stock, or when switching between
direct thermal and thermal transfer printing.
• Configurable for “one up” printing mode. With the present sensor installed and enabled, the next label is
not printed until the last label printed has been removed from the printer. Quantities of one-at-a-time can
be selected.
Warning
Caution