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Maintenance - Maintenance Routines 47
Wear gloves, get an empty ink bottle and a rag.
Go to the rear side of the carriage, place the rag under the Sub Air Tank.
Open the rear carriage door (if required).
Put the empty bottle under the drain valve (of Sub Air Tank).
Open the (orange handle) drain valve on the
Sub Air Tank and check if any ink comes
out.
Let all theinkowout,removethebottle,
clean the drain valve with the rag and close
the valve.
Return to the front side of the carriage and
turn the Negative Vacuum back to normal
value (approx -.036).
Turn alltheink2-wayvalvesbackto‘I’po-
sition.
Perform a Quick Purge.
Clean the print heads with a lint free cloth
(a gentle tap, no wiping).
Perform a PRIME TEST to check if all print
heads are working well.
3.8 Cleaning the Encoder Strip.
Theencoderstripisthepartthatdenesthex-positionofthecarriage
(positionoftheringpulse).Ifthestripisdirty,wrongsignalswillbe
sent to the shuttle resulting in printing artefacts.
The Encoder Strip is a transparent
plastic strip located on top of the car-
riage beam.
To clean, take a lint free cloth, put
some iso on the cloth and wipe the
strip gently from the right to the left.
To clean the strip on the Home Side,
perform the Carriage Release (p.23)
function to move the carriage away
(to access the Encoder Strip).
3.9 Maintenance on input Air Filter.
Go to the rear right side of the engine.
The input compressed hose goes into an Air
Filter.
There might be some moisture sitting on
the bottom side of the Air Filter.
Rotate the black screw at the bottom of the
ltertoreleasethemoisture/waterpresent
in the Air Filter.
Once drained, thighten the screw.
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subairtankoroverowtankis
on the back of the shuttle.
encoder strip
Input Air Filter