Contents
Viewing the Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Front section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Interior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rear section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Screen View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes for using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes for when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . 20
Notes on Handling Cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Notes on Handling White Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Notes on Handling T-shirts (Media). . . . . . . . . 22
Introducing the Supplied Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Contents of the Software Disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Starting Epson Control Dashboard for DTG. . . . 24
When accessing Epson Control Dashboard for
DTG from another computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Exiting Epson Control Dashboard for DTG. . . . 24
Using EPSON Software Updater. . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Removing the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Pre-treatment (only for White ink). . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Pre-treatment Liquid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fixating the Pre-treatment Liquid (Heat Press)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Creating and Sending Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Preparing the Platen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Attaching/Removing a Grip Pad. . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Switching from Polo to Zipper (only when
using the medium grooved platen). . . . . . . . . . . 39
Replacing Platens and Removing/Attaching
Spacers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Load the T-shirt (media). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading on a Grip Pad Covered Platen. . . . . . . . 45
Loading on a Platen without a Grip Pad. . . . . . . 47
Loading on Sleeve Platens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Loading on Medium Grooved Platens. . . . . . . . 51
Adjusting the Platen Gap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Starting and Canceling Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Fixating the Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Printing from a USB Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
USB memory requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Printing Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Deleting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Cleaning Locations and Cleaning Timing. . . . . . 60
Locations of Consumables and Replacement
Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Other maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Cautions when operating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Using ink cleaner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Disposal of used consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Disposal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cleaning the Suction Cap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cleaning the scale and replacing the filter. . . . . . . . 69
Cleaning around head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Clean Border of the Metal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SC-F2100 Series User's Guide
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