20 Most Recent Toshiba TEC B-882 Thermal Label Printer Questions & Answers

This is mechanical or you kave a problem with the ribbon saving mecanism

Sybtax error Check for the commucation settings or driver version

Change your ribbon or change the seetings to Ribbon no trans in the printer settings

The printer default is ribbon trans.if your ribbon is too dark you should modify this option to ribbon no trans

You should check if you have activated the tansmissive sensor in your driver

There is a micro switch at the back which is responsible for this error.Either you strap it or place the lever at the top position

Either you use a driver or send
{T20C51'}

Many reasons:
- The sensor is out of order.
- The sensor is not correctly mounted on the plate.
- the liner is too thick.

If you are sure that after putting in labels the head knob has been completely turned clockwise, thus locking the head in operating position, then most probably your head sensor is defective.
In this model it is, if I remember correctly, a small microswitch located to the left of the head assembly; a steel slider attached to the assembly moves down with the head, pressing a small metal "tongue" on the microswitch, which in turn presses a tiny prong sticking out of the microswitch. It looks similar to this:

The tongue sometimes falls off due to wear and tear. If this is the case, a temporary solution is to insert a toothpick or something similar to press this tiny prong on the microswitch, which will let you print, and order a serviceperson to replace this sensor.

The paper jams in the bottom because the leading edge hasn't reached the correct sensor in time, thus causing a jam message. Do a sensor test on the front panel of the printer before replacing any parts. Go into Diagnostics/Sensor test and you will see the letters across the top follwed by numbers below. Then you want to toggle the sensors located through out the paper path-usually black plastic hanging done into the tray areas. Up in output tray has black plastic hanging down-sensors. lift top cover and you can see the sensors on the left side of the top a black horseshoe shape is a sensor. This will help with the correct parts needed to be replaced.

The B-882 has two drive mechanisms. It differes from the B-482 because the rear drive has also a seperate opening mechanism. It is the green lever about half way back from the normal head open lever.

First of all, With any Toshiba label printer, after a parameter reset, you must send a label before doing a feed. Otherwise the printer will try to feed the ribbon. You can use the setting tool to tell set the printer to direct thermal also. Easiest way is to use the windows driver , add a label format coresponding to the one you are using, verify in the support tab that you are in direct thermal, do a test test print from the driver and you'll solve your problem

Perform hard reset of electronics and also re install the driver.

You can download the drivers at any toshiba official site ..

chage the value in the temperature adjustment or directly on the printer in the adjusment menu, or use the seagull driver

Have a probelm with my linux cups driver under ubuntu 14 a work through is to ativate the zmode and use the zebra driver.

Check the size (length of the label and check the type of detection. - check if there is a feed adjust value in the printer ajustments menu and in the driver. to return to zero checkbox the advanced parameter and print a label to send zero values.

The printer knows nothing at all about labels, and isn't looking for any gap. I think you specified the wrong settings in whatever software you're printing the labels from - something in "Page layout" or "Format" or possibly "Printer Settings". You need to tell the computer software exactly what labels you're using, or exactly what your label specifications are.