HP Indigo 6600 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Table of contents
1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Who can benefit from reading this How-to Guide?................................................................................................................................................ 1
Introduction to HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver.................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Prerequisites to using ElectroInk Silver......................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Limitations.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Performance and recommendations ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Preventing eye irritation...........................................................................................................................................................................................................4
2 Quick guide / overview to installing HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver and working with it.......................................................................... 5
3 Installing HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver......................................................................................................................................................................................7
Installing the dedicated BID base and developer roller.....................................................................................................................................7
Cleaning the ink station before building the HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver..............................................................................................8
Building HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver................................................................................................................................................................................. 9
4 Working with HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver.......................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Disabling automatic color calibration .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Silver color appearance and adjustments................................................................................................................................................................11
Checking Silver color appearance ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Performing Silver color adjustments................................................................................................................................................................ 14
Reducing background overlap...........................................................................................................................................................................................17
Automatic overlap adjustments............................................................................................................................................................................17
Manual overlap adjustments .................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Enabling double-hit printing on press for HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver .................................................................................................20
Recommended maintenance ...........................................................................................................................................................................................20
5 Setting the HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver from the prepress DFE ..................................................................................................................... 22
Adding Silver to the color strategy................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Assigning the color strategy to the ticket template......................................................................................................................................... 23
6 Removing and storing ElectroInk Silver and BID....................................................................................................................................................... 25
7 Troubleshooting..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................27
UI notifications............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 28
Accumulation of background at the leading edge............................................................................................................................................ 29
Appendix A Full color calibration............................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Color calibration recommendations per substrate .......................................................................................................................................... 31
Appendix B Installing the new piston spacer (shim) on the ink cartridge holder ..................................................................................33
Appendix C Service and support .............................................................................................................................................................................................39
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