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Gerber Solara ion Web Pages
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3 The Calibration web page updates to display the new Y Carriage Steps/Inch value.
Calibrating the location of a printed image (Print Pos Offset Front and Side)
This procedure describes how to calibrate the location of a printed image relative to the material
alignment marks that will be printed on a piece of scrap material. Calibration ensures that jobs
will print in the correct location. After printing and measuring the calibration job, the values are
added to the Print Pos Offset Front and Side fields on the Calibration web page.
To calibrate the location of a printed image
1 Load a piece of rigid material that is at least 12" ” 12" ”30.5cm x 30.5cm) so that the
edges are flush with the front edge and left edge of the table.
2 From the main control panel press the MENU key. The
Status screen displays.
3 Press the or key until the
Calibration screen displays.
4 Press ENTER to display the
Test Jobs screen. Press ENTER to access the test jobs.
5 Press the or key to select
Print Position Cal job. Press ENTER to send the job to the
printer. The job will print an “L” shape in the front left corner of the material.
6 Measure the distance from the left edge of the material to the outside edge of the L-
shaped image and make note of the value which you will need later in this procedure.
7 Measure the distance from the front edge of the material to outside edge of the L-
shaped image and make note of the value which you will need later in this procedure.
8 On the Gerber Solara ion’s Calibration web page enter the measurements (in inches) in
the fields labeled Dist to Table Front (in)
and Dist to Table Side (in).
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