Zebra Technologies Printers - Manual (Page 33)

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Ribbons
Transfer ribbons are used when printing on
thermal transfer media such as adhesive labels
or non-adhesive tags. Thermal transfer ribbons
are available in general purpose wax (blue
leader), general purpose wax-resin (silver
leader) and polyester resin (gold leader).
The print head carriage in a thermal transfer
printer includes these functional features:
• Ribbon Take-Up Spindles (forward pair)
Pulls ribbon over the print head.
• Ribbon Supply Spindles (back pair)
Provides back tension to stop wrinkles.
• Ribbon Tracking Bar (in back of print head
carriage). Automatically tracks ribbon ten-
sion (equalizes) across the ribbon’s width.
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Operation
Take-Up
Spindles
Supply
Spindles
Tracking
Bar