Stratasys J750/J735/J720 User Guide
4 Operating and Maintaining the Printer
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You can monitor printer status by switching the printer interface display. To do
this, click the display toggle button on the printer interface screen.
Figure 4-4 Printer status
Starting Printing
To begin printing:
➢
On the printer interface, click the red button to switch the printer to
online
mode.
The color of the button changes from red to green (see the figure on page 4-
4). If there is a job in the printing queue, it is sent to the printer.
When switching the printer to
online
mode, a message is displayed if a
maintenance activity is required to ensure optimum printing quality. (See
"Routine Maintenance Schedule" on page 4-31.) Maintenance notifications
can be disabled/enabled from the
Options
menu.
In the printer interface, the printer mode changes from
Idle
to
Pre-print
, as the
printer’s components prepare themselves for production:
• The print block is heated.
• The UV lamps are powered and they warm up.
When printing begins, the print manager program sends a number of slices to the
printer-control application. This fills the buffer between the print manager and the
printer to ensure continuous printing. As each slice is printed, as a layer of the
models on the build tray, another slice is sent to the printer.