Contents
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Front Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Right view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Inside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Slider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Understanding the Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Realizing High Productivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Superior Ease of Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
High Print Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes on handling ink packs and ink tanks. . . . . 19
Handling Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Introducing the Supplied Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Precautions When Handling Media. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Notes on Loading Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Loading media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Auto Take-up Reel Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Important points for correct take-up. . . . . . . . . 33
Attaching the Roll Core. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Take-up with the Printed Side Facing In. . . . . . . 37
Take-up with the Printed Side Facing Out. . . . . 39
Settings for Loaded Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Removing the Take-up Roll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Printing the Amount of Media Remaining. . . . . 42
Cutting Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Removing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Saving New Media Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Type and Summary of Media Settings. . . . . . . . 45
Easy Media Setup Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Media Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Changing settings during printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Changing the Heater's Temperature. . . . . . . . . . 50
Correcting Banding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Printable area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Cleaning Locations and Cleaning Timing. . . . . . 55
Replacing and Refilling Consumables. . . . . . . . . 56
Regular maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Other maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
What You’ll Need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Precautions regarding maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Daily Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Performing Regular Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using the ink cleaner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Moving the Print Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Cleaning Around the Print Head. . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Cleaning Around the Caps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Finishing Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Ink refill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Time Period for Ink Refills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Precautions when refilling ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Procedure for Ink Refills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Disposing of Waste Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Preparing and Replacement Timing. . . . . . . . . . 73
Waste Ink Counter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Replacing the Waste Ink Bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Replacing the Head Cleaning Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Preparing and Replacement Timing. . . . . . . . . . 75
How to Replace the Head Cleaning Set. . . . . . . . 76
Replacing the media edge plates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Replacement procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Disposal of used consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Disposal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Checking for clogged nozzles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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