Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8400, Service Manual

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Chapter 1
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1.2 Features
1.2.1 Features
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- Media pass in widths up to 44 inches (1117.6 mm).
- Large ink tanks reduce the need for frequent ink replacement.
- Uninterrupted printing from subtanks.
- BK and MBK inks are loaded concurrently to eliminate the need for their replacement.
- A 12-color pigment ink system "LUCIA EX" is used to improve rubfastness, chromogenic effect, and bronzing resistance, ensuring higher-grade printing.
- A printing mode that improved control of the optimum ink droplet landing order (when in the mode for the highest image quality) and the ink droplet landing
accuracy ensure higher-grade printing.
- A printhead having nozzles (I-shaped nozzle) with a new shape reduces ink mist, ensuring superfine printing.
- The operation panel that equipped a 160 x 128-dot large LCD allows you to operate the printer intuitively.
- Media take-up unit (option) is supported.
- Media take-up unit (option) can be mounted concurrently with a basket.
- Durability will be added by maintenance kit.
- Barcodes printed on roll media makes measuring the remaining roll length more manageable.
- Borderless four-side printing support (roll media) reduces laborious cutting work, easing the job of creating posters to a significant degree.
- High-speed printing with a 1-inch head for each color (1280 nozzles), under bidirectional print control.
- The color calibration feature adds to the faithfulness of color reproduction.
- The network interface (10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T) compatible with 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) comes standard with the printer to cope with the
high-speed LAN environment.
- Compatibility with e-maintenance/imageWARE Remote allows centralized management of customer's printer information.
- The hard disk is installed for better print job management.
Functional enhancements new to this model include:
- The processing ability of the printed data will enhance by increase of hard disk drive and memory capacity and improvement of throughput.
- A newly multi sensor has been able to perform a high accurate color calibration.
1.2.2 Printhead
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The printhead that mounts on the carriage is an integrated six-color disposable printhead.
It has 2,560 nozzles for each color, comprising two rows of 1,280 nozzles each arranged in a staggerd pattern.
If print quality does not improve despite carrying out the specified cleaning, the printhead must be replaced with a new one.
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1.2.3 Ink Tank
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The ink tanks are disposable.
The ink tanks come with 12 colors: mat black(MBK), black(BK), photo cyan(PC), cyan(C), photo magenta(PM), magenta(M), yellow(Y), red(R), blue(B),
green(G), gray(GY) and photo gray(PGY). Each of these inks are pigment ink.
The ink tanks are also available in two capacities: 330 ml and 700 ml.
Each tank is furnished with a notch for preventing incorrect installation, which will allow the tank to be installed only at the position marked in the right color.
An ink tank should be replaced when an ink tank replacement prompt message appears.
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