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Bravo 4100 Autoprinter ManualFor the most recent version of this manual please visit Each listing in the Table of Contents is interactive. Place the cursor on either the words or the page number. A small hand with a pointing finger icon appears. Bravo is the perfect all-in-one solution for producing professional looking discs. A wide variety of disc formats are supported, including audio CDs, DVD Video, data discs and more. Make sure that all supplied accessories are included with your unit.The LED Status Lights indicate that Power is ON. They also blink in certain patterns to indicate an error or other condition of the Publisher. See Section 4 for a full explanation of the LED Status Light conditions. The internal power supply is auto-switching in the range of 100-240v. The Power Switch shuts off all power to the Publisher. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Before getting started, it is important for you to verify that your PC meets the minimum system requirements. The cartridge will pop up slightly. Remove the cartridge. Locate a new cartridge and remove it from its packaging. Remove the foil outer package and the clear plastic shrink wrap. Press down near the back of the cartridge until it clicks into position. Click! Important Note: Make sure the cartridge is securely in place. An improperly positioned cartridge will cause no ink of that color to be printed. Notice the slots do allow for adjusting the position of the output bin. For PC, SureThing CD Labler is used to design the image to print on the disc. For Mac, Disc Cover is used to design the image to print on disc. For Mac and PC, PTPublisher controls the recording and allows you to select the image to be printed to your discs. Step one of the Copy Disc wizard will be displayed. You will be prompted to place the disc you would like to copy into the drive inside the Disc Publisher. The tray door will open automatically. It also has a different printable surface.https://closeriesaintjacques.com/files/brivis-evaporative-cooling-instruction-manual.xml

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For Primera TuffCoat branded discs simply choose your media from the drop down list, the settings will be adjusted accordingly. All Primera media is automatically defaulted to the best print quality. Other media may also accept the best quality setting. However, with some media you may have to print at a lower print quality to eliminate smudging and bleeding. Some lower quality media can not hold all of the ink that is printed at the highest quality settings. This method eliminates the need for a master disc. This is the label that will appear when this disc is inserted into a computer drive. When you have selected the data you would like to burn click the next button. Discs from other manufacturers vary widely regarding how far the printable surface extends to the edge of the disc. Measure the distance from the edge of the disc to the start of the white printable area. This will be between 0 and 2 mm in increments of.1mm. This is only available with multiple robots connected.For track at once, the laser is turned off after each track, which produces a two-second gap. The track-at-once feature, enables songs and data to be written at different intervals. The lead-in sectors that are written at the beginning of each session contain the location where additional data can be placed on the disc. You may also access it at any time by clicking the More Status link under the picture and description of the robot connected. Publisher Status is only available if the Publisher is connected. To queue another project to run after the current one is finished simply setup the project as you normally would. When you get to the third step of the project setup wizard, if a project is currently running, a Queue button will appear instead of a Go button. Important Note: It is not possible to span a single large file over multiple discs. Click Schedule Project to convert this data project into a backup project. You will be prompted to save your project.http://farrowmemoryspeakers.com/userfiles/brivis-evaporative-cooling-owners-manual.xml Do not move projects once you have saved them. Always choose only one copy even if your project will be spanned across multiple discs. Check the box next to the backup project you would like to run. Click Run Now to run it for the first time now. Otherwise, the backup project will proceed at the scheduled time. You must keep the PTPublisher software open, the Disc Publisher turned on and the discs loaded for the automatic scheduled backup to occur. You can protect an existing Master DVD by first converting it to an ISO image using PTPublisher or you can protect a DVD. After the free protections are used the PTProtect option is still visible but not selectable. B.8 Projects Sets (PC Disc Publishers Only) A project set is a group of projects that you can save in specific order and run once or multiple times. Choose New Project Set or existing project set. The project set window will now open. Add additional projects sets in the same manner. Rearrange or delete project sets using the arrow icons or the delete icon. You can use SureThing's Smart Designs to quickly label a disc, or easily import your own design in many popular file formats. The Help section included with the software will provide complete instructions on all the features in this package. Add text by selecting one of the options below. To create text that follows the curve of the disc choose Add Circular Text. 4B. You may also choose from sev- eral SureThing smart designs. There is no way to open Disc Cover PE outside of the PTPublisher software. To add a background from Disc Cover, click the Gallery button on the top tool bar. Below is a short description of each of the important buttons. Gallery Clipart Selection Zoom Font. Select the objects you would like to edit and then click on one of the six buttons on the top of the inspector. Four are shown below. All available settings are displayed in the Printer Settings area on this screen. Below is a description of each.https://formations.fondationmironroyer.com/en/node/8010 Print Quality This setting affects the quality and speed of the print. You may also want to adjust the inner diameter setting. To use the preset outer diameter setting for Primera media, select the media type from the drop down box at the top of the printer settings area. To use the preset outer diameter set- ting for Primera media select the media type from the drop down box at the top of the printer settings area. More information on each is below. Adjust the cartridge costs according to the actual price paid. The estimate does not take currency into account so you can assume that whatever value you entered is displayed in your currency. Click Start Auto Calibration to begin printing the calibration test print. When the second run of the print is complete, you should have a test print that looks similar to the following: BACK. Clean Print Head If the printer has been idle for a long period of time you may start to experience some drying of ink in the tiny nozzles that make up the print head. In fact, no regular maintenance is recommended other than cleaning the outside case. NOTE: Do NOT attempt to oil or grease the Publisher's Robotic Arm shaft or other components. By default, the lights are set to Flash Enabled. This condition will flash the internal LED lights off and on during any error condition. Try the following solutions: Secure Cartridges. The printer will do periodic maintenance to make sure the nozzles do not clog. Notes on Printhead Life The estimated printhead life is approximately 10,000 prints using a 100 coverage label. The number of prints you can expect to receive from one printhead varies from printhead to printhead.This is not a guaranty that the printhead will always. Grasp the print head near the back as shown in the illustration. 4. Locate a new print head. Before placing the new print head in the carriage clean the copper contacts on the carriage and the print head with the alcohol wipes included with the new print head.http://elmariachimexican.com/images/bravilor-b10hw-manual.pdf Click on the SureThing Software Help files Open the software. Please try again.Please try again.In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Please try your search again later.Automatically prints CDs and DVDS. Prints up to 100 discs per job. Requires two available eSATA ports and an available USB 2.0 port.Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness. Please try again later. Brad Conner 4.0 out of 5 stars We are pleased with it's responsiveness and somewhat conservative use of the ink. Color reproduction gets a little iffy at times, but all in all it performs well -- especially if you give it a decent quality disc to print on.The options for colors and images are. The options for colors and images are endless and it is very easy to use. The label actually prints in about 3 seconds. If you do a lot of DVDs, like we do, expect to go through a lot of ink.We had an old Primera for 7-8 years with 500,000 prints on it. This has less than 600 prints. We have to send it in for repair and we will be without a machine for over a week. This should be a work horse.It has it quirks, but in the end has proven to be a real life saver.I finally found that a combination of running a direct USB connection from the computer's rear USB plug instead of through a USB router, and also upgrading to Windows 7 and installing a newer driver and a later version of the SureThing printing software, resulted in that old printer becoming very reliable.http://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16285469f27db9---bush-tv-instruction-manuals.pdf But still, there were issues: - It did not reliably estimate available ink in the color cartridge, so the printer would stop mid-batch even when there was still ink, or it would not realize that ink had run out and still tried to continue printing, ruining several disks before I noticed the problem. - It often refused to retain the information that I had replaced a cartridge, and kept insisting that ink was low. - If there was a problem with a print job, the printer did not recover properly and it took a tedious process to reset everything. - 1 minute and 46 seconds per disk; not bad if I set up a batch and was not in a hurry, but much slower than I would like. - The robot did lots of seemingly unnecessary movements, wasting time. Then in 2015 I started to encounter availability problems with the ink cartridges. My normal supply chain was unable to get the Primera cartridges, and the emergency backup scheme of buying a Lexmark cartridge and transferring the bar code from an old Primera cartridge to the Lexmark one was no longer possible because it seemed that the Lexmarks were no longer available either. Then Primera advised that Lexmark had stopped making the cartridges, both under their own name, and also the special version for Primera. I was told by Primera that they arranged for Lexmark to make one more big batch of cartridges, and the most distributors were no longer buying this last batch from Primera, so orders needed to be placed directly, and that supplies were limited. I decided that I had beat this horse long enough and that the critter was surely dead. Time to upgrade. It seemed that the only autoprinters on the market were the newer Primera Bravo 4100, and a model by Epson. I could find very few reviews on the Epson, but it looked good. I found a video showing how it worked, and it sure looked slow. And I found few distributors stocking the special Epson cartridges, so I supposed that I might have availability problems.chloroacetic-acid.com/upload/files/20220518_101153.pdf The newer Primera product, just like the old Bravo II, uses a proprietary version of a standard Lexmark cartridge type (actually four cartridges in three colors plus black), but it seemed that lots of distributors stocked the Primera ink, so availability should be better than the Epson. And there were lots of good reviews on the 4100 and also online videos showing how fast its robot and print engine were. So I went with the Primera Bravo 4100. I need to note here that I did not buy my 4100 from Amazon. The 4100 has the same form factor as the Bravo II, using exactly the same footprint for the printer itself. However, the 4100 is much taller, and also the kiosk kit for front disk discharge sticks out a bit more to the front than the one did on the Bravo II. The three programs install automatically in sequence, and I saw no option to install only some of the software. So I ended up with two copies of SureThing on my computer; the copy I had for the Bravo II and the new copy. The installer did not check to see if SureThing might already be installed. This does not cause a problem, and I did not uninstall the extra copy either. SureThing allows design of a disk 'label' (even though no actual label is used.the printer prints directly on the surface of any inkjet printable disk), and you can then print the label to the Bravo 4100 directly from SureThing. But doing it this way does not show any printer status; this is no worse than what I was used to with the Bravo II. The new PTPublisher software application is a publish-only application; you can not use it to design anything. In my case, with the 4100 autoprinter, PTPublisher recognizes that the device does not do burning, and grays out those options, showing only the printing option. I design a label in SureThing, and then open the label in PTPublisher, and then print from that application. The nice thing about PTPublisher is that it shows lots of printer status.https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1628546a31d6f8---Bush-tr130-manual.pdf It shows graphical depictions of the printer's IN and OUT disk bins, and how many disks are in each bin. It shows a constantly updated set of bar graphs for ink levels in the four cartridges. And it shows print status. As with SureThing, PTPublisher allows all the printer options to be changed as required (e.g. print quality, whether to discharge printed disks to BIN 2 or to the front kiosk bin, inner and outer diameters of printable areas on the disks, etc). Other that the slight inconvenience of having to use a second application for the actual printing if I want to see status, this all works well. The main issue I see with the above arrangement is that PTPublisher will hard crash my computer if I try using it while SureThing is still open. I MUST exit SureThing before launching PTPublisher. I checked with Primera, and they agreed that this behavior is not a fluke on my computer, and that the two programs cannot be open at the same time. This is very odd behavior for Windows applications. By the way, the SureThing app that gets installed is version 5, the same version that I had more recently used for my Bravo II; apparently no upgrades have happened on that app in quite a few years. But this version recognizes both the older Bravo II and the newer 4100 series printers, so it will work with both, and more importantly, the file format is the same, so if you migrate to the Bravo 4100 from an older Primera printer that also used SureThing, there is no issue with compatibility and you can still print your old designs using the newer printer. And it is even backwards compatible. If I had gone with the Epson printer, I would have had a much bigger issue with compatibility. So, the 4100 itself. Maximum disk capacity is 100; you normally put up to 50 disks in the right bin, and the robot places printed disks in the left bin which also holds up to 50.https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1628546b50cbba---bush-stone-curlew-husbandry-manual.pdf If you change the printer to 'kiosk mode' where printed disks discharge out the front to a third bin with a capacity of 100, then the left bin can also be used to hold unprinted disks. The 4100's robot is very fast. It is able to check inventory in each disk bin in just a few seconds. It does this by lowering the disk picker into each bin until it touches the top disk in the bin's stack. It only takes a couple seconds for it to pick a disk from a bin and place it in the printing tray, and then another couple seconds to remove a printed disk from the tray and place it in either the other bin or out the front unto the kiosk bin. This is SO much better than the old Bravo II. The Lexmark inkjet print engine inside the Bravo 4100 has a very different design from the Bravo II. Whereas the older printer used ink cartridges that incorporated the actual print heads, the 4100 uses ink cartridges that are simply ink containers, and the print head is a separate item. Also, instead of the Bravo II's single color cartridge plus black cartridge (which I never used, since I got better results by telling the printer to make black by mixing colors), the 4100 uses three color cartridges (the usual cyan, yellow, magenta colors) plus a higher capacity black cartridge. I did not notice an option on the 4100 to NOT use the black cartridge. You can buy the different cartridges separately, or bundled in a pack that has one of each color. I was always concerned with the Bravo II that I would print a design that was heavy on red, for example, and have to discard the cartridge for further printing even of the other colors of ink were still mostly full. I often designed subsequent labels to favor different colors and thereby hopefully even out the usage of the colors in the single cartridge. Now, with the 4100, I change only the color that has run out, although I now need to stock more cartridges to make sure that I always have at least one of each color on the shelf.alexandramarati.com/files/files/black u0026 decker bmh200 manual.pdf But at least the ink capacity of the new cartridges is much greater than what was in the Bravo II cartridges, so I think the new system is a much better deal and overall ink cost should be quite a bit lower than before. On the Bravo II, I could optionally buy the Lexmark cartridge and move the barcode strip from a Primera cartridge to the Lexmark one, so that the printer would accept it after the scan it performed before each print operation. On the 4100 cartridges, instead of a barcode it uses RFID chips in each cartridge, and the print head carriage moves the cartridges under an RFID antenna before each print operation in order to verify that a valid type of ink has been installed. The printer keeps track of how much ink is used from each cartridge, and apparently associates this in memory with the cartridges' RFID numbers. This means that if you try and refill a cartridge, the printer will refuse to use it because the RFID number correlates in printer memory with an empty cartridge. In fact the RFID chip is just a small flat piece of plastic (with an embedded chip) that is placed between the cartridge's label and the cartridge's top surface. There are replacement RFID chips available online, and if you refill a cartridge, you peel back the cartridge label, lift off the RFID chip, replace it with the new chip, and stick the label back down. I DON'T know whether this trick could also be used with the regular Lexmark versions of these cartridges. At any rate, I have had poor results with trying to refill cartridges on other printers, and pretty much always just buy new cartridges these days, so I cannot add more information on this from personal experience. The 4100 print engine, at 'normal' quality setting, prints a disk in 6 seconds. In 'high' quality setting, it takes about 10 seconds per disk. Couple this print speed with the very fast robot, and it is clear the Primera's claim to being the fastest disk printer is justified. The print head is a separate plastic assembly, and it can be replaced just as easily as an ink cartridge. The print head snaps onto the printer's print head carriage, then the four cartridges snap onto the top of the print head. Electrical contacts on the print head match up with contacts on the print head carriage. Apparently, Primera has experienced some issues with this connector getting dirty, so the 4100 comes with a few prepackaged alcohol wipes, and they recommend cleaning the contacts every time the print head is changed. You can use any other brand of wipes, such as those drugstores sell for disinfecting or for cleaning glasses lenses, or even rubbing alcohol on a lint-free cloth. I think I like this arrangement of having the replaceable print head, since I have thrown away other inkjet printers when their inaccessible print heads got too clogged to be cleared. Primera recommends leaving the 4100 turned on during periods of inactivity. For example, if you were to not use the 4100 for a couple months, the print head might well clog up for good, and it would have to be replaced. It might be possible to remove the print head and soak it in water or something, but good luck with that. Primera states that if the printer is left powered, it will periodically run a print head maintenance routine. During shorter periods of disuse, it should be OK to turn the power off, maybe for a few days. Otherwise, plan on leaving the printer powered up all the time just to be safe. As of November 2016, I am on my second 4100 because the first one had an intermittent issue that caused it to sometimes do a hard reset in the middle of a print batch. On the second 4100, I have now printed only about 200 disks, but expect to be ramping up to a lot more before the end of the year. No malfunctions on the second 4100 so far, at least not ones related to the machine itself (the software is another issue, see below). Another big improvement over the Bravo II is that the AC power cord plugs directly into the printer.no separate power supply on the 4100. Some reviews state that the power supply is 'switchable' between 120V and 240V, but I don't see a switch on the printer. I conclude that there is a universal power supply inside the 4100 that can handle any AC voltage, regardless of county. As with the Bravo II, the 4100 has two buttons and two LEDs on top. One button is the power switch and the other is used for telling the printer that you want to change a cartridge, or for resetting if the robot happens to get hung up for some reason. Certain error conditions will cause these LEDs to flash in different patterns, as described by a chart in the manual. I printed an adhesive label with a small version of the error code chart, and stuck it on the printer next to the buttons. In addition to the above mentioned two LEDs, the 4100 has two additional LEDs inside the cover; these normally provide illumination inside the printer so you can more easily see what is going on inside. If the printer has a problem, these LEDs flash to get your attention. If the ink is getting low, these LEDs cycle their intensity between normal brightness and dim. Using PTPublisher, and going into the printer options, you can disable the internal blue LEDs, for example if you find the blue glow annoying, as it might be the case if it were in a bedroom, or in a room that gets used with lowered lighting. But if you disable those LEDs, you will not get the status that they can provide, and would have to check the PTPublisher software to get that status. As with the Bravo II, the 4100 normally will not operate with the cover open. I have not tried tricking the printer, so I don't know if this is feasible. The 4100 uses ONLY a USB connection to the computer; it does NOT have wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi connectivity. If you buy one of the versions of this printer that also have disk drives, then there are additional connectors on the back, since USB is not used for sending the disk data image to the printer. Unlike the Bravo II, the front kiosk kit (metal bracket and plastic high capacity bin) comes with the 4100 and does not need to be obtained separately. I tested the new 4100 on a few disks just to make sure it was working, then set it aside while I used up ink on the Bravo II. This got me through all the CDs I had to make before a hiatus over the Summer months, so I realized that the 4100 would not be used at all for about three months. I asked Primera, and they said if I left the 4100 powered on all the time over the Summer, that it would do an automatic periodic ink purge to keep the print head from clogging, so I followed their advice. In September 2016, I needed to start using the 4100, but I quickly found that the print head was clogged. I ran the head cleaning procedure (from software) twice, and this DID get the head working again. They NOW state that the only way to prevent head clogging is to use the printer fairly frequently. I understand that with ANY inkjet printer, it needs to be used periodically or there will be problems with clogging. In the future I will plan to leave the printer powered at all times, and also mark my calendar to run a sacrificial CD or DVD through it every couple of weeks just to keep those inky juices flowing. More critically, however, was that when I started to use the 4100 in earnest, I found that it would misbehave every few disks. Apparently I did not test it for long enough when I first got it, and was just lucky that it did not act up during those tests. I had the Bravo 4100 in the same location on my work area as the older Bravo II had been at for many years. I even used the same power cord and USB cable as the Bravo II had used. Even the same USB port on the computer was being used for the 4100. Nevertheless, I found that the 4100 would screw up in one way or another every few disks, sometimes more often, sometimes it could manage to print more disks before something went wrong. The failures involved stalling in the middle of printing a disk, or the robot moving the wrong way or not at all, or the printer repeatedly printing the same disk over and over. Worse than this, every time the printer had an issue, the associated software (either Primera SureThing or Primera PTPublisher) would crash, and even more troubling, the software crash would take the computer down with it.Windows would totally lock up, no response to the mouse or keyboard, and I had to do power cycle to bring it back. I contacted Primera and they said all of this was consistent with communications failure. They agreed that their software is not robustly written, so it cannot deal with any kind of communications (USB) interruption without crashing, and that the way it is written, Windows will also crash along with it. Primera asked if the 4100 was connected to the computer via a USB hub, and it was not (however, the Bravo II had been for a while, and during that time it also had problems involving the robotic movements, so I got rid of the hub and direct connected it to the computer again.but it NEVER crashed the software). Primera then asked how long my USB cable was, and my reply was 16 feet. This had not been a problem for the Bravo II (and I still use daily a big industrial wide format printer on a 20 foot USB cable that never misses a beat), and before purchasing the 4100 I had asked Primera directly if the 4100 was sensitive to USB cable length, and their reply was that it did not have the sensitivity to cables and hubs that the Bravo II had suffered from. But NOW, Primera stated that the 4100 cannot be expected to work correctly all of the time if the USB cable is longer than 6 feet. So I temporarily relocated the 4100 right in front of the computer, and used the 6 foot USB cable that came with the 4100, connecting directly to the computer. I ran a small batch of CDs, and it worked flawlessly. This SEEMS to validate Primera's statements. I will have larger batches of CDs to do soon, and hope that the printer continues to behave with the shorter cable. But I cannot leave the printer in that location, and the workspace has a lot of built-in furniture and I cannot think of a place to put the 4100 permanently that will allow a 6 foot cable to reach the computer. The 4100 will need to be carried into position every time I need to use it. I regard this incredible cable sensitivity to be inexcusable. No piece of modern equipment should be so picky, and no decently written software should crash so sloppily that it wipes Windows along with it. I had a few long instance where Primera tech support took over remote control of my computer and did tests and diagnostics, and a few more where my Dell Pro Support engineers took remote control and did computer and Windows diagnostics. The consensus was that my computer, which runs an office all by itself and which has a room full of USB, Ethernet and WiFi connected specialty equipment, as well as 8 different printers, 4 scanners, and some other stuff, was probably just too complex of a system, with too many diverse drivers and apps, and that this caused the Primera software some difficulties. There were no 'normal' issues with the computer.it passed all tests with flying colors, has a quick response time and was not sluggish, and has plenty of memory and disk space. Still, it was recommended by both Primera and Dell that I move the 4100 over to a less complex, mainstream, computer. I found a good location in another room, on the corner of a table adjacent to a short bookcase. There are no other apps on the computer, not even Office. So far with this setup, the 4100 and its software has worked flawlessly.