FormsPro 5100 Series Quick Setup InstructionsDrivers, User Manuals, and SW Utilities available @ www.printek.comUnpack the Printer: Remove all packing materials, and place on a solid, flat surface. –– Connect the power and host interface cables. –– Turn the Printer OnInstall the Ribbon – Move the paper to the parkposition. Open the printer top cover.Cautiously slide the print head carriage to the left stop(viewed from the printer front).WARNING: Let printhead cool if necessary.Move the colored friction tabs on the right and on the leftinto the direction of the respective arrows shown in thefigure and raise the friction mechanism.Remove the used cassette. Raise the colored insertion tongue A.Remove the colored protections A and B.Insert the colored ribbon tension knob into the right-handfront location of the new ribbon cassette. Turn the knob inthe direction of the arrow in order to take up slack of theribbon.Slightly tilt the ribbon cassette forwards and thread in theribbon between the colored insertion tongue and the ribbonsupport (transparent plastic plate).Align and insert the cassette into the guides on the left andright, then press down until it clicks into place.Insert the colored tension knob into one of the twolocations.Turn the tension knob in direction of the arrow to take upslack in the ribbon until it is seated correctly at the bottomin the ribbon support. WARNING: Remove the knob.Press down the colored insertion tongue A. Press the friction mechanism down until it clicks into place.Close the top cover.12 A B CD E FG HI JAll manuals and user guides at all-guides.com