Olivetti Artjet 12 User Manual

User's Manual

Ink Jet Colour Printer

Artjet 12

Introducing the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Parts of the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Switching on and off of the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Operator's Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Printer statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Button Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Printer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Opening the Printer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Printer Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Opening Printer Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Spool Manager for Windows 3.1/3.11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Opening the Spool Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

On-line Help Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Accessing the on line help guide for the print driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Accessing the Troubleshooting on line help guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Replacing the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Completing Print Head Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Print Head Care and Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Cleaning the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Cleaning the Print Head Nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Manually Cleaning Print Head Nozzles and Electrical Contacts . . . . . . . 20

Cleaning the Print Head Carriage Electrical Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Print Test from Printer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Printing on Common Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Loading the Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Loading the Paper in the Automatic Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Loading the Paper in the Manual Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Contents iii

Printing on Other Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Printing on Photographic Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Printing on Transparent Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Printing on Coated Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Printing on Glossy Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Printing on Tee Shirt Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Printing Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Printing Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Printing on Customised Paper Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Printing on Banners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Consumables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Print Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

iv Contents

Introducing the Printer

Your machine is a colour inkjet printer for high quality graphic and text printing. It can print on individual sheets, envelopes, labels, cards, glossy paper, coated paper, photographic paper, transparencies, banners and transfers for tee-shirts.

Parts of the Printer

The figure below shows the front parts of the printer.

Paper support

feeder.

Side paper guide

Automatic feeder

Operator panel button

Indicator LED on the operator's panel

section).

Front door

jams.

Paper outlet

: it supports the paper and any other materials loaded into the automatic sheet

: aligns sheets according to their width.

: inserts paper and special print supports.

Button Functions

: see

: allows access inside the machine to replace the print head or remove paper

: after documents are printed.

: indicates printer status (see

section.

Printer Statuses

Introducing the Printer 1

The following figure shows the parts that can be accessed from the rear of the printer.

Manual feeder

: allows to insert special print supports or a single sheet into the machine.

Power cord connector

Parallel communication port

interface).

USB communication port

Serial Bus interface).

: allows to connect the printer to mains power supply.

: allows connection and dialogue with the computer (parallel

: allows connection and dialogue with the computer (Universal

Switching on and off of the Printer

The printer has no on/off switch.

• It switches itself off automatically after being inactive for 4 minutes (by going into "Energy

Saving mode").

• It switches itself on automatically when receiving commands from the PC or data to print out.

Do not ever forget to unplug the printer when accessing its electronic internal parts.

2 Introducing the Printer

The Operator's Panel

The Operator's panel on the printer features a button and an indicator LED.

Button operation depends on the status of the printer, which is indicated by the LED.

Printer statuses

STATUS Description Indicator LED

Standby The printer is on but the FW has not been

loaded yet.

Ready The printer is free and ready to receive

data to print out.

Energy Saving The printer, after being inactive for four

minutes, goes automatically into the "energy saving" mode and remains ready to receive data to print out.

Data receiving The printer is busy receiving data until the

printout is completed.

Error Error condition (no paper, paper jammed,

no print head, printer failure).

Off

Low frequency blinking

High frequency blinking

The printer goes from

The change from the inactive for four minutes).

standby

ready

energy saving

mode once the FW has been loaded.

mode is automatic (timeout driven; after being

Introducing the Printer 3

Button Functions

The button functions depend on the printer mode:

Ready/Energy Saving

mode:

• Pressing the button the first time moves the print head carriage to the

replacement

• Pressing the button the second time returns the print head carriage to its

Data Receiving

• The button is inactive.

Error

mode:

• Pressing the button once can cause:

a) Paper feeding by the automatic feeder (paper present).

b) Paper ejection, if the paper is stopped under the print head.

position.

mode:

print head

rest

position.

4 Introducing the Printer

Printer Software

The printer is not operational before you install the software, which is contained in one of the two CDs supplied with the machine.

After installation, described in the the computer:

Printer Monitor

•

Printer Properties

•

Spool Manager for Windows 3.1x

•

The following

Operator Manual

• This document, which you can consult from Acrobat Reader and and page numbering)

Print driver help

• context-driven, available from WinHelp

Troubleshooting

• context-driven, available from WinHelp

guides

are also available:

Installation

folder, the following

applications

(with table of contents

are available on

Printer Software 5

The Printer Monitor

The Printer monitor is displayed (or run minimized) when a print process is sent to the machine.

It comprises two tabs:

1. the Status tab

2. the Printer Care tab

Status tab

The any error conditions.

If an error is signalled, click on the page of the context-driven help which will help to solve the problem.

Printer Care tab

The

• Install, replace, align and clean the print head

• Print a demo and a test page

• Access the

Opening the Printer Monitor

In Windows 95/98/2000/NT

1. Click on

2. Click on the

3. Click on

In Windows 3.1/3.11

Double click on the

Start

and then on

“Printer_Name”

Printer Monitor

Programs

Printer Properties

Program group

icon in the

“Printer_Name”

Program group.

Settings

The

• define print quality

• adjust print colours and intensity

• select print supports and their size

• select the orientation of the printed page

• restore predefined settings.

card in the

Printer Properties

dialogue box allows to:

Printer Software 7

Opening Printer Properties

Printer Properties can be opened from the application or from Windows.

Opening from the Application

Nearly all applications allow to open Printer Properties, with the following procedure:

(or

File

menu of the application, select

printer

) button, depending on

1. From the

2. In the dialogue box that then opens, click on the

Properties (Set, Options

the application.

3. Modify settings values as needed.

Set

Opening from Windows

Printer Properties

Windows. In this case, the changed settings are applied to the print processes of all applications (unless they are changed in the application itself).

The opening procedure is as follows:

1. Click on

Start

can be opened directly from

for Windows 95/98/2000/NT

and select

Settings

, then

Printers

Right click

3. Click on

The opening procedure instead is as follows:

1. Double click on the

2. Double click on the

3. Select la

on the printer icon.

Properties

Installed Printer

in the menu side bar menu.

for Windows 3.1/3.11

Control panel

Printers

icon.

and click on the

Set...

button.

8 Printer Software

Spool Manager for Windows 3.1/3.11

Windows 95/98/2000 have their own Spool Manager (normally reached by double clicking on the printer icon displayed on the task bar, on the bottom right side of the PC screen, during printing jobs).

For Windows 3.1/3.11, the printer's software installs a specific Spool Manager, which improves the performance of the standard (Windows 3.1/3.11) Print Manager and allows to:

• Cancel or interrupt print processes

• Display print processes in the queue

• Reinsert a print process in the queue

Opening the Spool Manager

1. Open the

2. Double click on the

3. Consult the

“Printer_Name”

Spool Manager

Program group.

on-line help, clicking on the

icon.

Help

in the menu bar.

Printer Software 9

+ 30 hidden pages