Chapter 2 — Operating the Printer
22 EasyCoder PD41 Printer User’s Guide
The green Ready/Data indicator will be turned on, off or flash
depending on the printer’s current state. The behavior of the
green Data/Ready and red Error LEDs is shown in the table
below.
Footnotes on flashing LED behavior:
Print Button
The Print button has different functionality depending on the
printer’s state. Different actions can be specified by pressing the
button less than and more than one second respectively.
Ready/Data and Error LED behavior
State Ready/Data Error
Power Off Off Off
Upgrading LEDs turned on one after the other.
Testmode See Chapter 5 for description.
Extended Testmode See Chapter 5 for description.
PUP On Off
Idle On/Flash
1
Off
Application running On Off
Printing On/Flash
1
Off
Printing (wait for LTS) Quick flashes
2
Off
Paused Flash
3
Off
Error Off On / Flash
4
1 Flashing with 50% duty ctycle, 0.8 second period when receiving
data, synchronized with Ready-to-Work LED.
2 Two fast flashes, 1.6 second period.
3 Flashing with 50% duty cycle, 0.8 second period, not sycnhronized
with Ready-to-Work LED.
4 Error LED will be lit for Out of Paper, Out of Ribbon, Head
Lifted, Cutter Error and Testfeed not Done conditions. Will flash
as (2), when thermal printhead is too hot. Will flash as (3) for
other error conditions caught by the Direct Protocol error handler.