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Unit 5 Portway Business Centre

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Old Sarum

Salisbury
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i100M Inkjet Printer

Instructions for Operation and Maintenance

Summary of Contents for i100M

Page 1: ...tway Business Centre Castlegate Business Park Old Sarum Salisbury SP4 6QX Tel 01722 322244 Fax 01722 322324 Email Sales Codeology com Registered in England number 5420692 Page 1 i100M Inkjet Printer I...

Page 2: ...printer incorporates its own air pump and supply DO NOT CONNECT THIS SYSTEM TO THE MAINS AIR AS THERE IS A RISK OF THE INK BOTTLE EXPLODING AT PRESSURES OVER 15 PSI 1bar WAIT TEN SECONDS AFTER SWITCHI...

Page 3: ...opening the valves in the correct sequence at the correct speed words are formed from the droplets on the product as it moves past the print head A tour through the system The fluid used to print is i...

Page 4: ...peed The final print quality is controlled by the speed the dot size and the air pressure It is also greatly affected by how clean the print head chambers and nozzle plates are and how much ink flow t...

Page 5: ...which can be selected from the hand controller or via ethernet Messages can contain fixed text or variable time date expiration dates or counts all of which can be updated automatically within the con...

Page 6: ...inter base near to the head and slightly below it with the top of the ink bottle ideally no more than 0 5m below the top of the print head as shown by the picture on the left If the ink bottle is too...

Page 7: ...tions from a product appearing in front of it A retro reflective type that uses a reflector as a mirror that sees a product as an interruption between it and the reflector is available from Codeology...

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Page 9: ...Page 9 i100 Mounting Bracket Dimensions and Hole Centres...

Page 10: ...ed on either side of the conveyor If you have a hand controller or PC with serial cable connect the serial cable to the top connector on the printer base Connect the air line on the printer base to th...

Page 11: ...jected into the container for as long as you cover the photocell Purge the head of the clear shipping fluid then allow the ink and any trapped air to flow from the nozzle plate until all of the nozzle...

Page 12: ...is for several reasons The cleaner that is shipped in the head dilutes the ink and takes several hundred prints to be completely flushed through This gives a varying dot spread on your product It will...

Page 13: ...plate Note that there may still be a bubble of air in the filter body this is normal Purging If the print degrades due to air in the ink following an ink change or you have removed the nozzle plate t...

Page 14: ...EHIND THE NOZZLE PLATE Clean the nozzle plate and blow it dry with an air line If you remove the plungers for inspection or cleaning note the order that they come out of the head and replace them in t...

Page 15: ...ent Replacing Ink Bottles For trouble free operation use only Codeology inks Switch off the unit disconnect the air and ink fittings from the 5 litre cap Unscrew the cap from the old bottle remove the...

Page 16: ...rinting Is XXX the message number that you want Edit the message Does it have something in it to print Is the dotsize between 150 180 If no then check Is the photocell seeing the box Look for the led...

Page 17: ...e menu to where they started There are also two blank keys that are used when an either or response is required so for example when the print delay menu is selected the question is asked Forward or Re...

Page 18: ...the real time clock commands e g AB CD prints the time in 12 01 format Any characters not in the list below e g or are printed directly AB hours CD minutes EF GH IJ Date Month Year numeric KLM Julian...

Page 19: ...timer 35 to 255 This sets how long the keyboard waits in Edit only from pressing a key to selecting the character A low number expects operators to be fast a high number waits longer for inexperienced...