Printing on Fanfold Media
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Printing on Fanfold Media

You will need to adjust the media guides' stop position when printing on fanfold media.
  1. Open the top cover.
    Print on fanfold media top cover drawing
    This image shows the fanfold media path.
  2. Adjust the media guide stop position using the gold thumb wheel.
    1. Use a piece of the fanfold media to help set the stop position.
    2. Rotate the wheel away from you to make the guides wider. Rotate the wheel toward you to make the media guides narrower.
    Adjust media guide stop position drawing
  3. Insert the media through the slot at the rear of the printer, and place the media between the media guide and roll holders.
    Inserting media through printer rear slot drawing
  4. Close the top cover.
The media guide stop position may need further adjustment if, after printing or after using 
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to advance several labels:
  • the media does not track down the center (moves from side to side), or
  • the sides of the media (liner, tag, paper, etc.) are frayed or damaged when exiting the printer
If additional adjustment does not correct the problem, route the media over the two roll-holding pins on the media guide.
You can also provide additional support for thin media by placing an empty roll core—of the same width as the fanfold media stack—between the roll holders.