Hi-Touch Imaging Technologies 640DL User Manual
Hi-Ti 640 DL Photo Printer
User Manual
June 21, 2002
HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual
Copyright 2002 Hi-Touch Imaging Technologies Company
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Customer Service
We're delighted that you choose HiTi Printer. In order to provide you the best service, HiTi Imaging Technologies, Inc.
provides a full-year of free customer support service worldwide. If you need help or just have a question, you may
reach our customer representatives via phone, fax, or email. We also welcome your comments.
Online Support
Visit HiTi website if you try to find out what you can do to solve a problem that is not documented in this user
manual-24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Except the continuously updated online support database, visit the web site
for the latest version of driver software or application updates. More templates for your photos are available, too.
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Customer Support Center
If your HiTi products cannot operate normally, contact our customer support representatives for help. HiTi provides
free one-year support service from the time you purchased the product. To save your time and cost, we'd like to ask
you to do check the following before placing a call:
• You have followed the procedures documented in your Quick Install Guide to set up the printer.
• You have reviewed this User Manual for troubleshooting tips.
• You have visited the support database hosted on the HiTi website for help.
• If you buy your product from distributors, you need to contact them directly for help.
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To provide you better and fast service, please record the following information of your printer:
• Printer Serial Number
• Printer Model Number
• The version of Printer driver. You can get it by choosing Control Panel > Printer > HiTi 640 DL photo printer. Click
Properties > About on the Printer dialogue box.
• The version of the PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition you are using
• The Windows version installed on the PC you're using, e.g. Windows 98 se
• The brand name/model/system configuration of your PC
• The name/version of any application you're running on the machine while you're using the HiTi printer
Contact Information
Hi-Touch Imaging Technologies, Inc.
3F, 31, Shuang-Shih Rd. Sec.3
Pan-Chiao City,
Taipei County 220, Taiwan
Tel: +886-2-82583060
FAX: +886-2-82583062
Contact us: http://www.hitouchimaging.com/contactus.asp
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Contents
Customer Service .................................................................................................... iii
Online Support .................................................................................................iii
Customer Support Center ................................................................................iii
Contact Information ..........................................................................................iv
Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
Features ...........................................................................................................1
Maintenance .....................................................................................................2
Chapter 2 Setting up Your Printer ........................................................................... 3
Unpacking Your Printer ....................................................................................4
Setting up Your Printer .....................................................................................5
Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges ........................................................6
Loading Paper ..................................................................................................7
Installing Printer Driver .....................................................................................9
Chapter 3 Using PhotoDésirée to Print Your Photos ............................................. 11
Working Flow ....................................................................................................12
Setting Display Resolution ...............................................................................13
Application in a View ........................................................................................14
Installing PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition ...........................................................15
Opening PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition ...........................................................16
Opening Photos ................................................................................................17
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Pricing Your Photos ................................................................................................22
Chapter 4 Introducing ImagEnhancer ..................................................................... 27
Chapter 5 Frequently Asked Questions .................................................................. 35
Chapter 6 Troubleshootings .................................................................................... 43
Chapter 7 Specification, Regulatory and Warranty ................................................ 51
Editing Photos ..................................................................................................18
Choosing Print Formats and Amounts .............................................................19
Printing Your Photos ........................................................................................20
Sending Print Jobs to Multiple Printers ............................................................21
Viewing Prices ..................................................................................................23
Modifying Prices ...............................................................................................24
Adding/Editing Customer Data .........................................................................26
Assigning Templates ........................................................................................28
Adjusting Colors ...............................................................................................29
Adding Texts ....................................................................................................30
Adding Calendars .............................................................................................31
Rotating Images ...............................................................................................32
Adjusting Image Layouts ..................................................................................33
LED Signal Lights .............................................................................................44
Error Messages ................................................................................................47
Specifications ...................................................................................................51
Package Contents ............................................................................................52
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System Requirements ......................................................................................53
Limited Warranty Statement .............................................................................54
Safety Instructions ............................................................................................56
FCC Information ...............................................................................................57
Appendix Printer Driver Details ............................................................................... 59
Installing Printer Driver ............................................................................................60
In Windows 98 environment .............................................................................60
In Windows 2000 environment .........................................................................67
Configuring Driver Settings .....................................................................................70
In Windows 98 environment .............................................................................70
In Windows 2000 environment .........................................................................79
Uninstalling Printer Driver .......................................................................................83
In Windows 98 environment .............................................................................83
In Windows 2000 environment .........................................................................84
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Thanks you for purchasing HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer, the best companion for your digital photo business. You take
the shots and HiTi Photo Printer brings quality prints in less than 70 seconds, making it easier than ever to print your
digital photos for your customers. What is more, the PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition software, the companion software
to HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer, seamlessly integrates with your customer database and pricing system, allowing you to
deliver the best quality of service to your customers. The software provides friendly graphic user interface for your
ease of use to customize and preview the photos before printing. With HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer, running a business
is just simple as it is.
Features
• D2T2 40 3dpi True Color Continuous-Tone Printing
• High-Speed 4 X 6 Inches Borderless Printing
• Economical Printing Capacity up to 100 Prints (ideal for running business)
• Parallel Printing (Up to 8 Printers)
• Fuzzy Printing Media Management
• Automatic Temperature and Humidity Detection
• Heavy-Duty Printing (30 sheets continuous printing)
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Maintenance
Maintenance
Printer
• To clean the printer, use a clean soft dry cloth to wipe the printer. If stronger cleaning is required, moisten the
cloth with neutral solvent, then wipe the printer again with a soft dry cloth.
• Always keep the air vents clean and free of dust. Dust that enters the printer through the vents will cause poor
print quality, like resulting in light spots on the prints.
Ribbon Cartridge and Photo Paper
• Always use the ribbon cartridge and photo paper of HiTi supplies. Use non-HiTi supplies will cause printer
errors.
• Keep the ribbon cartridge and photo paper in room temperature before using. Leave the cartridge and photo
paper in sealed foil package before installation. High temperatures may cause deformation of the photo paper.
• If there are dusts or scratches on the image outputs, use the HiTi Clean Kit to clean possible dusts. For
information about using clean kit to clean the printer, see the instruction inside the Clean Kit package. If the
problem remains, contact HiTi dealers or HiTi customer representatives for assistance.
• Never re-use the photo paper. Re-use the photo paper will cause a paper jam error.
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Chapter 2 Setting up Your Printer
This chapter contains the following topics for setting up your printer:
• Unpacking Your Printer
• Setting up Your Printer
• Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
• Loading Paper
• Installing Printer Driver
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Unpacking Your Printer
Unpacking Your Printer
Before you begin to install your printer, check if you have the following items:
printer
documentation
software CD
USB cord
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paper cassette
power cord
HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Setting up Your Printer
Setting up Your Printer
1. Connect the power cord to the power connection.
2. Connect the printer to your computer using the USB cord.
3. Insert the ribbon cartridge into the printer. For more
information, see Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
on Page 6 of the user guide.
4. Place paper into the paper cassette. For more information
regarding how to load the paper, see Loading Paper on
Page 7 of the user guide.
5. Turn the printer power switch on. The green led light
blinks and becomes stable after 5 seconds. Before you
turn on the power switch, make sure the printer driver
software is installed in your personal computer.
6. The New Hardware Found message box appears on the
screen of your computer. Windows starts to install the
printer driver software by copying files to your computer.
For more information about installing printer driver, see
Printer Driver Details on Page 59 of the user guide.
to power connection
to computer
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Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual
Installing or Replacing Ribbon Cartridges
HiTi 640 DL photo printer simplifies the steps of installing or
replacing ribbon cartridges to three steps only. To avoid
unexpected error messages, you must use genuine HiTi
supplies. Using other company's ribbon cartridges may
result in serious damage to your printer.
Warning: The HiTi ribbon cartridges can be purchased
from HiTi dealers.
1. Move the slider to open the top cover of the printer.
If you're replacing a ribbon cartridge, lift the old one out
and discard it.
2. Hold the ribbon cartridge as the figure illustrated. Be sure
to point the arrow sign towards the left-hand side of the
printer.
3. Insert the cartridge all the way into the printer until it is
completely installed.
4. Close the top cover.
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Loading Paper
Loading Paper
Hi-Ti 640 DL photo printer allows you to print different types
of paper and sticker for your digital photos. Again, to avoid
unexpected error message, you must use genuine HiTi
photo paper. Using other company's photo paper will result
in paper jam and color shift errors.
Warning: The HiTi paper can be purchased from HiTi
dealers.
1. Pull out the paper cassette from the printer. Open the
cover of the paper cassette.
Note: HiTi provides different paper cassettes for
loading photo paper and sticker paper. The
photo paper cassette is the standard
accessory item when you purchase the HiTi
photo printer while the sticker paper cassette
is not. Although the photo paper cassette is
able to load with sticker paper, it is
recommended that you purchase the sticker
paper cassette to prevent unnecessary paper
jam errors.
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2. Place a stock of paper into the paper cassette. The printer
allows you to load 100 sheets at a time in maximum.
• Load the paper with print side (glossy) face-up; the
printed photo faces up in the output tray. Be sure the
paper is in the direction with the narrow edge side
sitting at the inner side of the paper cassette.
• Do not touch the print (glossy) side of the paper with
your fingers. Always hold the paper along the edges
(outside the perforated border).
• Do not bend or tear off perforated edges on the paper
before printing.
• Never print on a sheet of paper more than once. The
coating applied to the paper. Reused paper will stick to
the ink sheet, resulting in damage to the printer.
• Use one kind and one size of paper at a time. Do not
mix paper types or sizes in the paper cassette.
3. Make sure the paper fits close to the edges of the paper
cassette. This helps the paper to feed into the printer
correctly.
4. Insert the paper cassette back into the printer.
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widenarrow
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Installing Printer Driver
Installing Printer Driver
Before you can use HiTi photo printer to print your digital
photos, you first need to install the printer driver to the
computer with which the printer is connected.
Note: When you set up the printer for the first time, be
sure to turn off the printer before you begin to install
printer driver software.
1. Insert "Software CD" into CD-ROM drive. The Software
CD can be found in the package that is shipped with the
printer.
2. The HiTi Welcome window appears on the screen.
Choose Install HiTi Photo Printer 640 DL Driver.
3. The Installing Printer Driver message box appears on the
screen. Click Start to begin installing the printer driver or
click Exit to quit the installation process.
4. On the Set Default Printer message box, click Yes to set
HiTi Photo Printer as the default printer.
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Note: Hi-Ti provides three ways for installing printer driver.
For detailed descriptions, refer to the Appendix,
Driver Management section in this user manual.
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Chapter 3 Using PhotoDésirée to Print Your Photos
After you have successfully set up the printer and installed the printer driver, let's print an image from HiTi
PhotoDésirée where you can customize digital images into calendars, poster or greeting cards. The PhotoDésirée’s
ease-of-use user interface lets you easily adjust the saturation, contrast, sharpness, brightness or hues of your
photos in any way you like. With PhotoDésirée, creating a photo with studio quality right at your home is not a dream
anymore.
In this section, you will learn basic operations using PhotoDésirée, including:
• Installing PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
• Opening PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
• Opening Photos
• Editing Photos
• Choosing Print Formats and Amounts
• Printing Your Photos
• Sending Print Jobs to Multiple Printers
• Pricing Your Photos
• Adding/Editing Customer Data
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Working Flow
Working Flow
The following figure illustrates basic working flows of using PhotoDésirée software to print your digital images.
Open PhotoDésirée
MiniLab edition
Edit images
Open images
(Invoke ImagEnhancer)
Set prices
Set paper type
Set print amounts
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Apply templates
Adjust color
settings
Enter texts
Choose calendars
Modify layouts
HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Setting Display Resolution
Setting Display Resolution
Before running PhotoDésirée, make sure the monitor display
resolution is set to 1024 x 768 pixels or higher, and the color
setting is set to the Hi Color (16 bit) or True Color (24 bit)
mode.
To set the display resolution:
1. Select Start > Settings > Control Panel from Windows
start menu. Select Display from the Control Panel. The
Display Properties window is then appeared on the
screen.
2. Choose High Color from the Colors drop-down menu.
Move the Screen area slider to 1024 by 768 pixels or
higher. Then click OK.
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Application in a View
Open Images
Open images for print
Print Formats
Show print formats
and amounts
Image Index Area
Place images that
are opened
Price Calculation Area
Show prices of a printing
job
Image Index
Choose and print image
indexes in vary formats
Printers
Show printers connected. Up to 8
printers can be installed.
Customer Data
Show customer name
and photo number and
job ID number
Special Handling Area
List the images that are
edited. The editing levels
are: low, medium and
high, defined by price.
Print
Print images
Print Queue
Show printing jobs in the queue.
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Installing PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
Installing PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
PhotoDésirée is the application where you can edit photos
for print.
1. Insert "Software CD" into CD-ROM drive. The Software
CD can be found in the package that is shipped with the
printer.
2. The HiTi Welcome window appears on the screen.
Choose Install HiTi PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition.
3. Windows starts to copy files from the CD-ROM to the
machine. On the message box that pops up on the
screen, click Yes to place the "PhotoDésirée MiniLab
Edition" icon to be placed on the Windows Desktop.
Otherwise, click No to ignore this option.
4. To this step, the HiTi PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
application is installed successfully.
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Opening PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition
1. Select Start > Programs > HiTi > MiniLab > MiniLab from
Windows start menu.
2. The main window of PhotoDésirée MiniLab edition opens
on the screen.
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Opening Photos
1. Click the Add Image button.
2. On the Add Images window that opens, select the
image(s) you want to print.
• Select All: Choose this when you want to select all
images in the folder. If there is any sub-folder under this
folder, check the Include Subfolder selection item.
• Select Multiple: Choose this if you only want to add
certain images in this folder.
• Preview: Check this if you want to preview the images
before adding.
• Append to Image Holders: Leave the image in the
index area after printing.
3. Click OK. The images you select will appear in the index
area (left-hand side of the window). To select more
images, repeat the above steps.
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Editing Photos
To edit a photo you add into the PhotoDésirée application,
do the following:
1. Double-click the image you want to edit. The
ImagEnhancer opens on the screen.
2. Edit the image in the ImagEnhancer. For detailed
descriptions, see Introducing ImagEnhancer starting on
Page 27.
3. Once the editing is done, the Send Special Area Dialog
Box displays on the screen, asking you which price level
the editing should be charged for. An editing job can set
to three different pricing levels: Low, Medium and High.
For more information about pricing, see Pricing Your
Photos starting on Page 25.
4. Click OK. The image edited will show in the Special
Handling area on the right side of the window.
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HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer User Manual Choosing Print Formats and Amounts
Choosing Print Formats and Amounts
You can choose to print your digital photos in different
formats and specify the amounts you want to print for each
type. The available print formats are:
• 4 x 6 inch photo
• 4 x 4 sticker
• 4 x 2 x 4 sticker
• 1 inch ID photo
• 2 inch ID photo
To choose a print type:
1. Move your mouse over the image you want to specify.
The print formats and amounts drop-down lists appears.
2. Choose a format from the format pull-down menu.
3. Specify the amount of prints for this format. PhotoDésirée
allows you to print 99 prints in maximum.
4. Repeat the above steps for another format if needed. To
reset to default settings, click the right button on the
mouse while mouse over an image. Select Reset on the
pop-up menu.
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Printing Your Photos
Printing Index Card for Selected Photos
1. Select the format of the index card you want to print.
2. Click the Index Print button.
index card format
print index button
Printing Photos
1. Click to select the image you want to print.
2. If you want to print multiple images at a time, hold the shift
key while keep clicking other images to select them.
3. Click the Print button.
print button
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