Contents
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Cleaning .............................................................................................................................................78
About Care and Maintenance of Print Heads .......................................................................79
When Normal Cleaning Is Not Effective ......................................................80
Medium Cleaning ...........................................................................................................................80
Powerful Cleaning ..........................................................................................................................81
Maintenance that Should Be Performed More Than Once a Month ...........82
When Manual-Cleaning Becomes Necessary .......................................................................82
Manual Cleaning of Print Heads ................................................................................................83
When Problems Such As Dot Drop-out are Not Cleared U
p .......................................87
When Problems Such As Dot Drop-out are Not Cleared Up ...........................................87
Replacing Consumable Parts ......................................................................89
Replacing the Wiper ......................................................................................................................89
Replacing the Felt Wiper .............................................................................................................. 92
Replacing the Blade .......................................................................................................................95
Replacing the Separating Knife .................................................................................................97
When Not in Use for a Prolonged Period ....................................................99
Keep Performing Maintenance .................................................................................................99
Alarm Feature ..................................................................................................................................99
Special maintenance .................................................................................100
Draining Ink and Performing Internal Washing ................................................................ 100
Draining Ink Remaining Inside the Machine ..................................................................... 100
Chapter 4 Part of Practice ...............................................................................101
Fully Utilizing Preset Function ...................................................................102
Saving Various Settings as a Name Assigned Preset ....................................................... 102
Loading a Saved Preset .............................................................................................................103
Automatic loading of a saved preset when media is loaded ......................................104
Fully Utilize the Media Heating System .....................................................105
What Is the Media Heating System? ..................................................................................... 105
Making the Temperature Setting for the Media Heating System .............................. 106
Control of Media Heating System during Preheating .................................................... 108
Drying the Trailing Edge of the Printing Area on the Dryer ......................................... 108
Setting the Drying Time after Printing.................................................................................109
Using an Optional Dryer ........................................................................................................... 110
Using a Blower-fan Unit ............................................................................................................110
Fully Utilizing the Correction Function ....................................................... 111
Correcting for Misalignment in Bidirectional Printing ................................................... 111
Correcting for Misalignment in Bidirectional Printing More Precisely ..................... 112
Alleviating Horizontal Bands and the Like (feed correction function) ..................... 112
Accommodating to the Types and Condition of Media .............................. 114
Adjusting Head Height to Match Media Thickness ......................................................... 114
Using Transparent Media .......................................................................................................... 115
Printing Hard-to-dry Media ..................................................................................................... 115
Using the Media Easy to be Winkled/Hard to be Fed ..................................................... 116
Speeding Up Output for Narrow Media .............................................................................. 117
Preventing Soiling of the Media and Dot Drop-out........................................................ 118
Using Sticky Media ...................................................................................................................... 119
Fully Utilizing Cutting Function ..................................................................120
Hints and Tips for Cutting Setting ......................................................................................... 120
Preventing Pulling of the Media with Undue Force When Performing Cutting Only
.... 120