Primera Technology LX900 - Manual (Page 36)

32 Printing
3. Choose the right printing program. There are many
different applications that are capable of printing to the
LX900. However there are only a few that are ideal
printing applications. For example, Adobe Illustrator is
an excellent design program but is not always the best
printing program. It can be difficult to find the printing
preferences or to know the exact size of the art board. It is
best to save as a PDF file and print from Adobe Reader or
export as a 300 dpi JPG and print from NiceLabel.
D. ADJUSTING PRINT ALIGNMENT
If your previous experience with printing is limited to printing
letters and cards to 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper you probably are
not familiar with an essential part of a label printing - Print
Alignment. Standard printers feed a sheet and start printing
based on the start of the sheet. They also prohibit printing to
the edge of the sheet. This is to avoid any need for alignment.
The LX900 senses the beginning of the label with an optical
sensor and is capable of printing to top, bottom, left and right
edge. Because of this it is necessary to align the printer to
work with specific types of label stock.
The LX900 comes factory calibrated to print exactly to the edge
of Primera label stock. However, due to variations in the left
margins and other variables it may be necessary to fine tune
these settings at the beginning of each roll. This is especially
true for other non-Primera brand label stock.
Important Note: Before adjusting alignment settings first print one label
at the quality level you intend for the entire job. This will ensure the
label stock is moving at the same speed and the stock sensor will sense
the gap in the same way.
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