USB port with a cap. Ink system needle. Keypad. Ink container gasket. Name plate. Buzzer - a buzzing signal LCD touch screen. generator, located inside element Ink container. of the printer. Ink container labels. 3 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
A warning not to perform the operation that might be unsafe or critical for the printer. It requires the user to follow closely the instructions given therein. Figure numbering notation The meaning of LED and other indicators: The lamp glows The lamp flashes Buzzer 4 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
EBS Ink Jet Systeme for additional information. This manual applies to Offline EBS Web User Interface (Offline WUI) in version 1.4 and the EBS-260 printers equipped with the control system in version 1.02.08.
Do not use plastic vessels to do the washing. Metal vessels are recommended. Protect the printer against dirt, heavy dust and excessive moisture. EBS Ink Jet Systeme is able to ensure perfect and safe operation of the printer only when original, printer-specific accessories and consumables are used.
If the clothing has been splashed, take it off as soon as possible. When ink or wash-up spill, wipe out the spilled fluid with a piece of absorbent material, and then remove the material in compliance with fire and health and safety-at-work regulations. 9 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Conformity Marking (p. 11). Printer accessories. If you do not use original EBS parts or printer accessories, including batteries or electronic components, the statutory requirements may not be met and the HF electromagnetic emission limits may be exceeded. Impact on Medical Equipment Pacemaker and Other Medical Implants The printer contains built-in high-frequency transmitters and receivers.
Conformity Marking ® The HANDJET EBS-260 printer has followed the conformity assessment procedure which resulted in the issue of Declaration of Conformity. This forms ® the basis for the statement that the HANDJET EBS-260 printer and the manufacturer’s accessories, to which this Declaration relates, meet the general...
The current time of the printer and the date and time settings – see Date and Time Settings (p. 22), Switch the printer off and then on again, log out the user and disable the screen – see also Switching the Printer Off (p. 16). 12 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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With the key you can switch over between the project window and printing parameter windows. The active window is framed in black. The keys are designed for choosing a project and changing the parameter settings. 13 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(LCD) level. It is displayed on the LCD display after a given parameter field has been chosen, while the password is being typed in during logging in operation or while a text is being input to a project. 14 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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– to abandon inputting a text (the button is available after you have started typing in). Moreover, diacritical characters are hidden under certain buttons (the are available after a given button has been touched and held on). These buttons include: u– 15 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(I) button on the printer touch screen 12, remotely, with EBS Web User Interface available via a Web Browser, by means of the button. When you press button 18, the display shows the message that the printer will be switched off in 120 seconds.
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When the (I) button is touched, the window containing the following options is displayed on the printer touch screen and also in EBS Web User Interface: – to switch off promptly after the button is touched, – to switch off and restart the printer, ...
(p. 16)), a list of user is displayed on the printer acreen. After a user name has been chosen, a keypad is displayed (see (p. 14)) with which to type in the password. 18 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(for 50 hours) – see Unlocking Options 72). The information on such a temporarily accepted container appears in the form of the icon (F) on the status bar. 19 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Put the printer in such a way that the container points downwards, turn empty container to the left (a). Wait about 3 seconds while holding the container to equalize the pressure. Remove the container carefully (b). 20 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Change the settings concerning the generation of Statistics. You can collect the data on the number of prints made for each of the projects. The menu – see report is available EBS Web User Interface in the Info Operating statistics (p.
Confirm the modification with button or abandon it with the button. If no modifications have been made, you can return to the previous screen by touching the button. 22 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
If no modifications have been made, you can go back to the previous screen by touching the button. The date and time settings can also be modified with EBS Web User Interface – General Settings (p. 113). Sound Settings...
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The modified parameter settings should be confirmed with the button or abandoned with the button. If no modifications have been made, you can go back to the previous screen by touching the button. 24 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
In order to maintain battery efficiency for a long time, the battery should not be recharged until it is discharged completely – see Low-battery Indicator (p. 26). 25 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
® The HANDJET EBS-260 printer should be stored with its batteries charged. If the printer is to be stored for a longer time (6 months or longer) and its batteries are not recharged, it may work for a shorter time after it has been recharged afterwards or in certain circumstances even stop working.
(1 and 2) displayed are touched quickly. The screen lock can be enabled at any time by holding button or by touching the (I) and buttons. 27 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
If a user is marked with (by touching the button after the user has been highlighted), this user will be logged in automatically after the printer has been switched on. Administrator is marked with , by default. 28 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
When the printer is linked into a given network via WiFi, then diode emits orange light. A signal strength icon is displayed in the top left corner of main screen 12. 29 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Choose the network you wish to link to in the list and touch the button. Type in the network data in the Basic and Advanced sheet tabs. Confirm the modifications with the button. 30 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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A WiFi status icon is displayed in the left top corner of main screen 12: – connection via WiFi is available (the number of black arcs shows the signal strength), – unknown WiFi status or an error, 31 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
– Bluetooth inactive – the printer is connected with an external device. Establishing Connection between Printer and External Device Move to the Bluetooth parameter settings, activate Bluetooth (with the button) and touch the button. 32 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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The external devices available are shown in the list. Choose a device you wish to connect to in the list and touch the button. 33 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
By touching icon on the status bar of the main screen (the icon is displayed when a disc is connected to the printer), or By touching the Tools (U), Service buttons in turn: 34 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Importing Projects With the project import function you can download projects made with Offline EBS Web User Interface or created in another printer to the printer. Touch the button. Choose a file with the extension EXP in the file list...
Touch the button. On the screen displayed choose an update file with the extension EBS in the list. On selecting the file, touch the button. You may not be able to update your software in the following cases: ...
Important information about printer operation is signaled with the icon (B) displayed on the status bar (the color of the icon indicates the type of message) and the following window shown in the printer screen: 37 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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(the messages are displayed in blue, and the icon is shown on the status bar). The following buttons are designed for use in order to view and delete messages: – to display the previous message, 38 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
For that purpose, go to the Clear sheet tab and touch the button. The general statistics (service report) can be deleted by a Service-type user. 39 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
You can copy files and move them among folders with the copy button and move button. Touch the button in order to close the File Manager and return to the previous screen. 40 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(for editing) with the button. If an attempt is made to open a project, when a project is already opened in EBS Web User Interface, the following message is displayed: 41 EBS Ink Jet Systeme...
The project opened in EBS Web User Interface must be saved before any project is opened on the printer. If you do not do that, the project is closed unsaved and any modification to it are lost. If you wish to continue editing the project that is opened in WUI, touch the...
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– to magnify the project inside the edit area, – to decrease the project inside the edit area, – to change the initial setting of a counter, – to add a new object, 43 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
– see Clipboard (p. 45), a highlighted object can be edited; when the button is touched, the object parameter window opens. 44 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Trash sheet tab. The following operations can be performed on trash objects: a highlighted object can be deleted from the trash with the button, 45 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
In order to add a new object to a project, touch the button and then choose an appropriate object on the screen displayed. Objects are grouped in sheet tabs by type: Text (text objects), Shapes and Others. 46 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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If the project is not saved, the button is enabled; in addition, the project name displayed at the top of the processor window is red (after saving it changes the color to white). 47 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(to shift the bottom edge of the object), the (to shift the left-hand edge of the object) as well as the buttons (to shift the right-hand edge of the object). 48 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Fit content to frame, the size of the object is equal to the size of the frame (not available to text objects where an EBS built-in font is used and to barcode-type objects). If Without scaling is chosen, the frame size can be modified without resizing the object.
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Line spacing parameter you can add spaces between lines of text. The spaces are measured in pixels (dots). Up to 20 pixel spaces can be added. The space is added after every end-of-line character. 50 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Text Object – Normal text Touch the button and then the button in order to add a new text object - Normal text, to a project. 51 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The current date and time generated by the printer clock are given in the Main sheet tab, where you can also preview a time and/or date print. With the calendar icon you can choose components for printing – clock icon or the 52 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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%C – number of century, %d – day of month (01, ... , 31) %D – date in the format: mm/dd/yy, %e – day of month (1, ..., 31), %F – date in the format: yyyy–mm–dd, 53 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The setting of the counter changes each time the trigger is pressed. Touch the button and then the button in order to add a new, Counter-type text object to a project. 54 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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– the parameter allows you to set the value from which Start mode counting starts after printer operation has been resumed. Four options are available: Min, 55 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(e.g. a computer, automatic scales, a barcode reader) to the printer. Touch the button and then the button in order to add a new, Communications port-type text object to a project. 56 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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Two modes are available: Normal and Hexadecimal. In the normal mode, the data is transferred as ASCII characters, whereas in the hexadecimal mode it is transferred as hex numbers. 57 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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(from 1 to 255) of characters from an external device; with the number being defined in the field below the parameter. If printing is released although the condition 58 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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If no changes have been made, you can return to the previous screen by touching the button. 59 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Shape-type Object – Rectangle Touch the button and choose the Shapes sheet tab, and then touch the button in order to add a new, shape-type object, a Rectangle, to a project. 61 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Image Touch the button, choose the Others sheet tab, and then touch the button in order to add a new, Image-type object to a project. 64 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Line divider-type text object to a project. With the Position parameter you can define the number of the vertical row on which the division should be made. 65 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
An increase in the setting of that parameter results in higher intensity of prints made, owing to a bigger size of ink drops jetted out of the printer head. Increased intensity involves higher consumption of ink. 66 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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(e.g. cables, hose, tubes, pipes) (Printout repetition ). The distance between successive parameter – see the prints is set with the Print spacing Position 68) sheet tab. 67 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
If the printer is switched off, e.g. in emergency mode, while a project is being edited but has not been saved jet, then when the printer is switched on again and the project is opened for editing, a project recovery tool starts running. 69 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
enable additional options, restore preliminary settings and data stored in printer memory, adjust electromagnets in nozzle valves, view the manufacturer's contact details and the version of printer software. 70 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
In order to purge the system you should position the printer with container downwards and start purging. Hold trigger until ink starts flowing out of the nozzles. 71 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
– a serviceperson unlocks the printer remotely, without any need for giving a one-off code and typing in an activation code. Touch the button and wait until the option is unlocked. The 72 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
– see Export Project (p. 80). Restore function is available only for Administrators. Preliminary settings should be restored only when the batteries are fully charged or when mains electricity supply is connected. 73 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The other data, such as the version number or the serial number of the printer (available after the Detailed information box has been touched) is necessary for service persons to perform diagnostic operations. 74 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
User Interface (WUI) – see Establishing Connection between Printer and Computer (p. 75). by using Offline EBS Web User Interface (Offline WUI) after it has been installed on the computer in advance. Service (p. 114) and Printer Control (p. 116) menus are not available in Offline WUI.
Create new project command. Type in a name for your project in the Filename field in the window displayed. If you tick the Create project in separate folder check 76 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Last modification was made and with the Printer type option - the type of printer for which the project is designed. 77 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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If you open a project on the printer LCD while the same project is being edited by means of WUI, the WUI project is closed automatically. No project can be edited on the printer screen and in WUI at the same time. 78 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(by touching the text field or the button) and touch the button. You can also import projects created for the HANDJET EBS-250 printer. In the Import EBS-250 project file sheet tab, type in a name for the project in...
– the Open a project with the Create new project Open project project processor window opens. The project processor consists of several parts: an edit area, four tool bars and auxiliary rulers. 80 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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, re-scaling of print preview (real size /fit to window width): zoom in edit area (hot key: zoom out edit area (hot key: restore original size of edit area (hot key: magnification scale 81 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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Text Object – type: Communications port Communications port (p. 94) – see Text Object – Text File type Text File add Image-type object – see Image (p. 100) Barcode Date/Time as barcode Counter as barcode 82 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(the parameters are available in the menu list, when a project is open and can be edited). The printing parameters are set to their default settings that are specific to a given type of printer. 83 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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In other words, a change in the width of characters printed and in the length of the entire project are the visual effects of a change in the setting of the Resolution parameter. 84 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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In order to ensure that the printout hits precisely the point at which the printer moved in the opposite direction and the printing was interrupted, lower roll of the printer must have continuous contact with the surface to be labeled. 85 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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Lower pressure is recommended for smooth, non-absorbing materials, and higher – for porous, absorbing materials. 86 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Font name drop-down list. If there is no font that you might be interested in in the drop-down list, you can add your own font by touching the button (see Font Manager (p. 107)). When EBS built-in fonts are used, you can modify the Row multiply Letter spacing parameters. The Row multiply parameter defines how many times printing of every vertical row of text is to be repeated.
(not available to text objects where an EBS built-in Fit content to frame font is used and to barcode-type objects) – when the size of an object is to be the same as the size of the frame. If the...
Touch the button and then the button in order to add a new, Date/Time-type text object to a project. 89 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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When more advanced functions are needed, use expert mode (Show experts settings). In the expert mode you can modify separators and date and time format, and also choose other date and time components and separators that 90 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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%s - number of seconds from 00:00:00, 1 January 1970 (the GNU extension), %S – second (00, ..., 60); 60 means leap second, %T – time in the 24-hour system in gg:mm:ss format, 91 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The setting of the counter changes each time the trigger is pressed. Touch the button and then the button in order to add a new, Counter- type text object to a project. 92 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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(that is, to the setting when the counter is incremented or to the setting when it is decremented). The timing pulse modifies the counter by a set Step. 93 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Text Object – Communications port Communications port text object is used to print automatically the data received by the printer from external devices (e.g. a computer, automatic scales, a barcode reader). 94 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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There is no physical RS–232 interface in the printer, so you need to apply a USB – RS232 converter in order to connect an external device. With such a converter you can connect an external device (e.g. a 95 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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– see Ready to print after. The buffer size is 20, which means that 20 various, ready-to-print pieces of data can be received and stored. When any other data comes, it will overwrite the 96 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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– it defines the data to be transferred from the printer On starting printing to the external device immediately after printing has been initiated (with the button on the Printer control panel). 97 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
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The partition can be accessed in a network environment. For more information on the subject of scripts refer to the document entitled Managing the processing of data transferred by COMMUNICATIONS PORT in the EBS printers. – this is an advanced mode of formatting of the data Formatting string transferred from an external device to the printer.
– the text line to be added to an object as a first one. Line start value Start mode parameter is used to define which line of the text file is to be rolled-in after printer operation has been resumed. Two options are possible: 99 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(see Image Manager (p. 106)). The printer can process PNG files. Touch the button in order to confirm the settings and to add the object to a project. 100 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
When the field changes color to red, this means that the character string typed in is not appropriate to a given code type (a wrong number or type of characters). 101 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Shape-type Object – Rectangle With the Rectangle object you can print any rectangle: an outline only or the entire figure (in the latter case the Filled check box needs to be ticked). 103 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Touch the button and then touch the button in order to add a new, Line divider-type text object to a project. 104 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
You can edit a highlighted object; you can touch the button in order to open the object parameter window, button – the deleted object You can delete a highlighted object with the is moved to trash – see Trash (p. 106). 105 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Confirm the operation with the button. The number of images you can install is constrained by the printer memory available. 106 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The number of fonts you can install is constrained by the printer memory available. You can delete a font from printer memory – by highlighting the font name in the list and touching the button. 107 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
The number of files you can install is constrained by the printer memory available. You can delete a text file from printer memory – by highlighting the file name in the list and touching the button. 108 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
You can enable automatic logging in of a selected user when Web User Interface starts running, by ticking the Enable Auto-Login check box and choosing the user name in the drop-down list. 109 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
You can edit the data of a printer that is in the list by highlighting the printer name and touching the button. You can delete a printer from the list by highlighting the printer name and touching the button. 110 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
WUI bottom bar – see Work Screen of EBS Web User Interface (p. 75). In the Printer network window you can see the list of printers together with the following data: ...
LCD and in the printer processor. Choose the language that you wish to edit in the drop-down list, and then choose Editor (EBS Web User Interface messages) or (printer messages). On modifying a text touch the button at the bottom of the page.
In the General settings sheet tab you can set the Language communication with the processor and enable Statistics (see Operating statistics (p. 117)). The new settings should be approved with the button. 113 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
– see Exporting Projects (p. 35) via the printer (only projects are exported) or Export Project (p. 80) via EBS Web User Interface (projects and images are exported). 114 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Touch the button. On the screen displayed choose an update file with the extension EBS in the list and touch the Open button. In the Service menu, which is on the menu bar, choose Log. The Log window shows all the events (e.g. user logging in, opening and editing a project, starting printing, etc.) that took place both during printer operation,...
Printing a Project via Web Browser (p. 122). The Printer control menu is not available to Offline WUI, but you can manage operation of a selected printer via a printer network – see Printer network 111). 116 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
(p. 119)) and the statistics window has been closed and opened again. Messages Important information about printer operation is signaled with the message window at the bottom of the EBS Web User Interface work screen. The information is collected in four sheet tabs: ...
If you modify a project open for printing or parameters of such a project via a Web Browser, the following message is displayed on the printer LCD: If you wish to print an updated project, touch the button. 118 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Open a project for printing with the Open project for printing button, which is in the printer control module of processor edit area (see Work Screen of EBS Web User Interface (p. 75)) or with the button in the Printer control menu.
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Put the printer to the place on a surface where a print is to begin and press trigger on the printer. Move the printer to the place where the print is to end (lower roll must have permanent contact with the surface to be labeled) and press release 6. 120 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Print on (waiting). Printing starts when trigger is pressed and the must roll) – the printer printer moves along an article to be labeled (lower roll status changes to Print on (printing). 122 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
In effect, the roll guides may seize or ever lockup permanently and the (shaft-encoder) position sensor and other electronic subassemblies may get damaged. 123 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
It is recommended that the replacement operation be performed by qualified or EBS service staff. Boldfaced or Blurred Prints The print is heavily saturated with ink, ink drops blur and the entire print seems to spread over the object being labeled.
(p. 66). Questions and Problems Should you have additional queries after reading this operating manual, you can: Browse the EBS Ink Jet Systeme, the printer manufacturer's web site Try asking a question to the manufacturer’s representative, Present the problem in the contact form available on the manufacturer’s web site and forward the form following the instructions given therein.
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LCD, Printer control, project ® via Mozilla Firefox Web Browser and printing parameters (EBS Web User Interface – online processing and offline). Printer-computer Wireless link, via radio, Wi–Fi technology communication: 2 400 GHz Operating frequency range:...
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Dimensions in vertical position 330 / 88 / 277 mm (length / width / height) See figure below (provided that the Dimensions in working position surface to be labeled is vertical). 127 EBS Ink Jet Systeme 20150330#1.0...
Packing case to hold all accessories ............ 1 unit ® HANDJET EBS-260 Printer ..............1 unit Big rolls (for uneven and porous surfaces) .......... 2 units Small rolls (for flat and smooth surfaces) ..........2 units ...
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Distribution and service Manufacturer: EBS Ink Jet Systeme GmbH EBS Ink-Jet Systems Poland Sp. z o.o. Alte Ziegelei 19-25, ul. Tarnogajska 13, D-51588 Nümbrecht, Germany 50-512 Wroclaw, Poland +49 (0)2293 - 939-0 +48 71 367-04-11 ...
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