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Chapter 5 Maintenance and Adjustment.........................................................................................61
5-1 Daily Care and Maintenance ............................................................................................................................. 62
Disposing of Discharged Ink ......................................................................................................... 62
Cleaning ........................................................................................................................................ 64
Care and Maintenance of the Print Heads..................................................................................... 65
5-2 When Head Cleaning Is Not Effective ............................................................................................................ 66
Performing More Powerful Cleaning.............................................................................................. 66
When Powerful Cleaning Is Not Effective ...................................................................................... 67
5-3 Cleaning the Heads Using the Cleaning Kit .................................................................................................. 68
When the Cleaning Kit Becomes Necessary.................................................................................. 68
How to Perform Cleaning .............................................................................................................. 68
5-4 Replacing Consumable Parts............................................................................................................................. 72
Replacing the Wipers .................................................................................................................... 72
Replacing the Blade ...................................................................................................................... 74
Replacing the Separating Knife...................................................................................................... 76
5-5 When Not in Use for a Prolonged Period..................................................................................................... 78
Keep Performing Maintenance ...................................................................................................... 78
Alarm Feature ................................................................................................................................ 78
Important Note on Draining Ink .................................................................................................... 78
5-6 When Moving the Unit ....................................................................................................................................... 79
Procedures from Preparing to Move Through Reinstalling............................................................. 79
Chapter 6 Feature Reference............................................................................................................81
6-1 Pausing or Canceling Output............................................................................................................................ 82
Canceling Output Before It Finishes .............................................................................................. 82
6-2 Setting the Location for Starting Output....................................................................................................... 83
Setting the Output-start Location................................................................................................... 83
6-3 Matching the Printer to the Operating Environment ................................................................................. 84
Making the Setting for Automatic Adjustment of the Printer to the Operating Environment .......... 84
6-4 Accommodating Various Kinds of Media ........................................................................................................ 85
Adjusting Head Height to Match Media Thickness ........................................................................ 85
Using Transparent Media ............................................................................................................... 86
Printing Hard-to-dry Media ........................................................................................................... 86
Preventing Media from Coming Loose .......................................................................................... 87
Speeding Up Output for Narrow Media ........................................................................................ 88
Keeping Media from Being Soiled by Ink Drops............................................................................ 88
How to Load Sheet Media ............................................................................................................. 90
6-5 Setting How the Printer Operates.................................................................................................................. 91
Determining What Happens When an Ink Cartridge Is Empty....................................................... 91
Changing the Type of Ink............................................................................................................... 91
Setting the Interval until Activation of the Sleep Mode .................................................................. 92
Deactivating the Sleep Mode......................................................................................................... 92
Preventing Pulling of the Media with Undue Force When Performing Cutting Only ..................... 93
Drying the Trailing Edge of the Printing Area on the Dryer............................................................ 93
Giving Priority to Image Quality ................................................................................................... 94
Changing the Menu Language and the Units of Measurement ...................................................... 94
Displaying the Amount of Remaining Media on the Printer's Screen ............................................ 95
Verifying the Setting for the Amount Remaining Every Time the Media Is Changed ...................... 95
Printing the Amount of Remaining Media ..................................................................................... 96
Returning All Settings to Their Initial Values ..................................................................................96
6-6 Making Various Adjustments for Cutting........................................................................................................ 97
Performing Distance Correction During Cutting............................................................................ 97
Fine-tuning the Cutting Conditions................................................................................................ 98
Accurately Adjusting the Cutting-in Amount ................................................................................. 99
Making the Cutting Conditions Set on the Machine Take Precedence ........................................... 99