Oce Arizona 500, User Manual

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7/26/04 C-3
Minimal Maintenance - When printing very light density colors.
In certain images where there are very light ink densities creating process
colors, the automated maintenance may cause a color shift caused by the lower
layer of ink having an incremental 10 seconds of drying time while maintenance
is done. This artifact is primarily seen in 4-pass printing, but can also occur in 8-
pass printing. The MINIMAL MAINENTANCE function minimizes the amount of
time the carriage pauses to perform during-print maintenance.
This function is located in the OPERATOR/PRINT PARAMETERS menu.
When enabled, the front panel display will indicate "MINIMAL MAINTENANCE:
ON".
Output printed with this feature ON will add the message "[Min Maint: ON]" to the
print statistics line.
CAUTION: This feature should only be used when the artifact is seen. The
majority of jobs will not require this function ON and may exhibit an abnormal
amount of nozzle loss and "banding" if this function is ON during regular print
jobs.
Double Spit Stripe - For printing jobs with low ink coverage.
When printing a job with very little overall coverage, such as a simple banner,
the use of this feature will help maintain the print heads by adding a second spit
stripe on the blotting station side of the print.
Utilizing this function on all prints will not generate any negative effects, except
for a nominal increase in ink usage and decrease the printable width by
approximately 1 inch.
This function is located in the OPERATOR/PRINT PARAMETERS menu.
Quad Strike - When a medium can handle very heavy ink lay-down.
Caution: This feature is VERY dependent on the substrate's ability to hold ink
and should only be used with specific media and media with specific profiles
created to accommodate this function. Note that this feature is only available in
8-pass printing mode.
When this option is turned ON, the printer will lay down a significantly higher
level of ink on each pass of the print heads. This generates heavier ink coverage
for jobs using the 8-pass printing mode and selective-double-strike image files.
Note that any 8-pass job that is processed (RIPped) to the printer with this
function ON, when printed from the reprint queue, will always print in quad strike
regardless of the setting in the control panel.
Output printed with this feature ON will add the message "[Quad Strike: ON]" to
the print statistics line.
This feature can be accessed from the OPERATOR/PRINT PARAMETERS
menu.
Enabling this function for 4-pass jobs will not have any effect on the output.