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Printing defect
Cause
Countermeasure
The picture position is
shifted vertically or horizon-
tally.
1) Setting of the retransfer
film
2) Ink ribbon, retransfer
film
3) Card
1) Refer to page 31 of the instruction manual and check the
film type setting.
2) Check the winding condition of the ink ribbon and the
retransfer film.
If the winding is not uniform, check the condition of the
shaft of the ink cassette.
3) In case of preprinted cards, use "Offset Prt Y" or "Offset
Trf X" of maintenance in service mode to adjust the posi-
tion to that design.
R e s i n c h a r a c t e r s a r e
blurred
Resin characters are thin.
Resin characters are miss-
ing parts.
* Resin character : When a
character is printed in black
ink.
1) Character font
2) Head or platen roller
wear
1) When small characters are printed with a fine font, the
characters may become blurred or may be missing some
parts.
In such a case, increase the character size or use bold
characters.
In case of using small characters due to print image de-
sign , refer to page 30 of the instruction manual.
2) When the head or the platen roller is worn out due to long
time use, characters may be printed with some parts miss-
ing. In that case replace with a new head or platen roller.
The printing result shows
white spots.
1) Dust on the card
2) Dirty cleaning roller
3) Dirty internal rollers
4) Dirty filter
This case occurs with printing to film.
(This is different from defective retransfer.)
1) Remove any dirt from the cards.
2) Clean the cleaning roller. Exchange the cleaning roller if
needed.
3) Clean the internal rollers with cleaning card.
4) Clean the fan filters. Exchange the filters if needed.
5) When this occurs every time at the same position in hori-
zontal direction, a dent in the platen roller or retransfer
roller can be considered.
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