Can't get barcodes to scan?

Hi, i'm having trouble trying to print barcodes that will scan properly. They look "patchy" and have broken lines. I've tried tighening and loosening the tensioner springs on the print head with no luck? I've also tried printing diffrent barcode densitys to see if it made a diffrence again with no luck... Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Chris.

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Change your printing speed, it will make it print darker and have better quality of print

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Did you try the PAUSE test? if not turn off you printer press and hold PAUSE button then power on the printer after a 4 sec release it will print note u must pause it bcoz it will continue printing.. then look out the print out look for the white vertical line if it has your printhead is defective..

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How r u Trying to print a barcode to the printer??

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Have you tried different darkness settings? it sounds like you only need to turn the darkness up a little.

Posted on Nov 09, 2007

steven Nov 01, 2013

And slow down the print speed, doing that will make it darker and better print quality

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