Contents
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When Normal Cleaning Is Not Effective ...................................................................56
Medium Cleaning ..............................................................................................................................................56
Powerful Cleaning ............................................................................................................................................. 57
If Colors Are Uneven ................................................................................................58
Light Choke Cleaning .......................................................................................................................................58
Maintenance That Should Be Performed Once a Month or More ............................60
When Manual Cleaning Becomes Necessary ......................................................................................... 60
Manual Cleaning ................................................................................................................................................61
Maintenance That Should Be Performed Once every Six Months or More .............67
Refreshing Subtanks (REFRESH SUBTANKS) .............................................................................................67
When Problems such as Dot Drop-out Are Not Fixed ..............................................69
When Problems such as Dot Drop-out Are Not Fixed ..........................................................................69
Replacing Consumable Parts ................................................................................... 71
Replacing the Wipers .......................................................................................................................................71
Replacing the Felt Wipers ............................................................................................................................... 74
Replacing the Separating Knife ....................................................................................................................77
When Not in Use for a Prolonged Period .................................................................80
Keep Performing Maintenance ....................................................................................................................80
Alarm Feature .....................................................................................................................................................80
If the Machine Has Not Been Used for One Month or More ..............................................................80
Chapter 4 Advanced Functions ....................................................................................81
Fully Utilizing the Preset Function ............................................................................82
Saving Various Settings as a Name Assigned Preset .............................................................................82
Loading a Saved Preset ...................................................................................................................................83
Automatic Loading of a Saved Preset When Media Is Loaded .......................................................... 84
Fully Utilizing the Media Heating System .................................................................85
What Is the Media Heating System? ...........................................................................................................85
Making the Temperature Setting for the Media Heating System ....................................................86
Controlling the Media Heating System during Preheating ................................................................87
Drying the Trailing Edge of the Printing Area on the Dryer ............................................................... 88
Setting the Drying Time after Printing.......................................................................................................89
Using an Optional Dryer .................................................................................................................................89
Using a Blower-fan Unit ..................................................................................................................................90
Fully Utilizing the Correction Function ...................................................................... 91
Correcting for Misalignment in Bidirectional Printing .........................................................................91
Correcting for Misalignment in Bidirectional Printing More Precisely ........................................... 91
Alleviating Horizontal Bands (Feed Correction Function) ..................................................................92
Correcting Media Tilting .................................................................................................................................93
Accommodating Different Media Types and Conditions ...........................................95
Adjusting Print Head Height to Match Media Thickness ....................................................................95
Using Transparent Media ................................................................................................................................96
Using Hard-to-dry Media ................................................................................................................................98
Using Media That Wrinkles Easily/Does Not Move Smoothly............................................................98
Changing the Range of Print-head Carriage Movement ....................................................................99
Expanding the Printing Area by Reducing the Margins ....................................................................100
Preventing Soiling of the Media and Dot Drop-Out ...........................................................................101
Using Sticky Media ..........................................................................................................................................102