Citizen CBM1000 Printer User Manual


 
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2.3.2 Print Position and Barcode Printing
Roll paper width 80 mm provided:
Paper width 80 mm applies to printing area 72 mm (576 dots), and both left and
right margins each ca. 4 mm.
Figure1 Printing Area 1
Roll paper width 58 mm provided:
Paper width 58 mm applies to printing area 54 mm (432 dots), and both left and
right margins each ca. 2 mm.
Figure2 Printing Area 2
Figure3 misaligned printing
Note:Among the adjacent heating elements side by side, for example, 1-192th dot
field becomes possibly misaligned with 193-384th dot one and/or 385-576th
dot one as shown in fig. 3 (Print Density Level = 2). Make sure not to spread
over the printing area of the ladder Bar code onto the different dots fields,
otherwise Bar code Printing become misaligned to affect OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) performance.
Paper width 80 mm
0.125 mm
Print area 72 (63) mm
4 (8.5) mm 4 (8.5) mm
0.125 mm
Print area 54 (45) mm
Paper width 58 mm
2 (2) mm 2 (11) mm
field 1
1
192
385 576
193 384
Slight shift
possible.
field 3
field 2
The values in ( )
are for when the
42 column format
is used.
The values in ( )
are for when the
30 column format
is used.