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Chromira

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Summary of Contents for CHROMIRA

Page 1: ...Rev 3 2005 ZBE CHROMIRA PRINTER User s Manual...

Page 2: ...Chromira 2 Breakthroughs happen CHROMIRA MANUAL CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 ABOUT ZBE 6 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 7 GETTING TO KNOW THE CHROMIRA 9 INTRODUCTION 9 CHROMIRA SOFTWARE 10 CHROMIRA PRINTER 10...

Page 3: ...ANCING THE CHROMIRA PRINTER 24 PROCEDURE 25 MAKING A CALIBRATION IMAGE OR TEST PRINT 25 JUDGING THE TEST PRINT 26 PERFORMING A SCANNER ANALYSIS 27 PERFORMING A DENSITOMETER ANALYSIS 27 ADVANCE SETTING...

Page 4: ...GS 47 X RITE 810 811 CONFIGURATION MENU SETTINGS 47 X RITE 820 CONFIGURATION MENU SETTINGS 47 X RITE DENSITOMETER RS 232 INTERFACE CABLE PINOUT 47 X RITE 880 SERIES CONFIGURATION MENU SETTINGS 48 X RI...

Page 5: ...Rev 3 2001 5 WHERE TO CALL FOR HELP For questions or comments or if you have any troubles with your new Chromira printer please contact your local dealer or ZBE directly at...

Page 6: ...Chromira 6 ZBE Incorporated 1035 Cindy Lane Carpinteria CA 93013 tel 805 576 1600 fax 805 576 1601 E mail info zbe com Or visit our web site www zbe com for the latest Chromira information...

Page 7: ...ontinuous unattended imaging 24 hours 7 days a week Other productivity enhancing features of Chromira Workstation include intelligent user defined prioritized image nesting for minimal paper waste Rea...

Page 8: ...sign camera and motion control systems for special effects that have been used in many feature length motion pictures including The Right Stuff Star Wars The Twilight Zone Top Gun and others as well a...

Page 9: ...roduced the Chromira Large Format RA4 Digital printer Chromira marks the beginning of a truly new generation of large format digital printing technology By doing away with expensive and finicky lasers...

Page 10: ...rated Darkroom loading Connections 120 230VAC 1000 W Network connections 10base T or 100base T Compressed air 60 100 psi Platform Windows NT embedded in printer Print Head LED Technology Patents Pendi...

Page 11: ...be fully received at the printer to begin printing At worst network delays will cause the printer to pause with no resulting artifact in the print and no loss of print quality The user interface for...

Page 12: ...environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communi...

Page 13: ...uirements of UL 1950 CSA 22 2 No 234 EN 60950 following the directive of 73 23 EEC and of EN 50081 EN 5022 EN 50082 and EN 61000 following the directive 89 336 EEC This was determined by the Communica...

Page 14: ...eue under the user s direction from Chromira Workstation Chromira Workstation Main user interface Functions as front end for submitting work to the Chromira printer and for monitoring the queue from a...

Page 15: ...maintaining a queue of jobs to be printed The user s control of this queue is executed through the use of Chromira Workstation which is detailed later Starting it up When you first start the Chromira...

Page 16: ...Note If there is no paper loaded in the Chromira the Tension Paper Test will fail This is normal Simply click Finish to close the self test screen and proceed to the main screen of the Chromira Print...

Page 17: ...Dialog Box which allows you to select or modify emulsion files By keeping Emulsion Files the Chromira can keep The Chromira Printer Main Screen Control Buttons Offer convenient access to various impor...

Page 18: ...he print queue This is the Calibration Image that you will use to calibrate the Chromira for optimal print quality Diagnostics Displays the Chromira s Diagnostics Dialog Box which allows you to run an...

Page 19: ...number of different RA 4 type materials Each material s settings are held in an Emulsion File EMU extension on the Chromira s hard disk This dialog box allows us to make changes to these files and co...

Page 20: ...u use color management and have a color profile for the Chromira you can select the color profile that is to be used with all prints from this particular emulsion You can do this by clicking the Brows...

Page 21: ...any time from the Emulsion dialog box or the main screen of the program This number if it is reset to zero each time prints are unloaded from the Chromira for processing will indicate the amount of p...

Page 22: ...settings are explained below Printer Name This field simply allows you to assign a name to this individual Chromira Printer This is the name that appears for this printer when selecting among multiple...

Page 23: ...d of the image This scale can be used to determine how much to change this number if your prints are not positioned properly on the page Width Scale Length Scale Allows the operator to adjust the widt...

Page 24: ...a dark screen when any of the paper access doors are open Automatic Screen Restore When Door Closed With this function checked the Chromira monitor will to restore to its normal function when both of...

Page 25: ...choose from 2 Selected Fields All items in this cell will print on the data line The operator can add or remove by highlighting the selection and then clicking on the Add or Remove button The operato...

Page 26: ...Chromira 26 Diagram A...

Page 27: ...Any number of copies may run concurrent with the ZBE Chromira The Workstation runs anywhere on a Network that has access to BOTH Chromira PC and File Storage Server Computer Initial Setup To begin one...

Page 28: ...Located at the top of the Workstation window is a set of pull down menus Locate the printers selection and select it Once open the Edit Printer window will appear See Diagram below Locate the Browse...

Page 29: ...gh paper length to print all images If there is an insufficient amount of paper to print the amount of images submitted to the queue the printer will display an error message and two buttons Hold Rele...

Page 30: ...ht of the final print 5 Quantity Displays the numbers of images printed 6 Priority Displays the priority that was given to an image 5 Paper Type Tells the paper type loaded in the printer 6 Start Time...

Page 31: ...t It holds the file name location and print preferences Once the Chromira Printer receives the tag file it goes out over the network and finds the image file to be printed It then opens up a small por...

Page 32: ...s an interpolation method to assign color values to any new pixels based on the color values of existing pixels in the image The more sophisticated the method the more quality and detail from the orig...

Page 33: ...When selected will print the image as is b 90 degrees CW Rotates image 90 degrees Clockwise c 90 degrees CCW Rotates image 90 degrees Counter Clockwise d 180 Degrees Rotates the image 180 degrees e Be...

Page 34: ...e Fly changes meaning any color contrast or saturation changes will not effect the core file They are only applied when the printer is printing the file Each value is in CC units There are different s...

Page 35: ...s in an area which in turn adjusts the sharpening A preview is available to view the amount of sharpening which will occur to the image Pull Down Menus Located at the upper left hand section of the wo...

Page 36: ...pens up to four submenus They are listed below 1 Queue Alarm When checked the workstation software will generate an alarm window stating the Print Queue empty 2 Preferences When selected a window will...

Page 37: ...der window will appear The operator should then browse for the designated hot folder Once that is completed click on the Hot Folder Defaults button A window will pop up resembling the submit window It...

Page 38: ...de color profiles generated by your monitor and or scanner They typically are embedded into the file to be printed However if they are not they may be applied when the file is submitted The other prof...

Page 39: ...g window will appear It is here that you must browse for the input profile Once done click OK You may also override any existing profile Click the box that applies and browse for the profile This allo...

Page 40: ...he printer the operator must first give the location of the printer to the balance program This procedure is similar to that of the workstation browsing for the printer Click on the browse button loca...

Page 41: ...ided by the Chromira Balance Program Chromira Balance allows the computer to look at a Test Print and make changes to the Emulsion EMU File associated with the photo material being calibrated This Cal...

Page 42: ...he scan balance provides the user the ability to correct for scan lines which printers of this sort can produce Densitometer Balance The densitometer balance controls the color balance of the printer...

Page 43: ...rd to allow for the UMAX scanner d Computer has a free com port for densitometer optional If you do decide to install the balance application on another computer other than the Chromira printer please...

Page 44: ...ust like all other Chromira print jobs they will show up in the Chromira Workstation program s queue view The Test Print is simply a job that prints the Test Image TIF file located in the C Chromira P...

Page 45: ...both the Scanner Analysis and the Densitometer Analysis Run the Scanner Analysis first then read it on the Densitometer After both analyses are complete make your next Test Print The Test Print has li...

Page 46: ...2 Place the Test Print on the scanner so that the top of the Print is toward you as you stand in front of the scanner The print must also be centered left to right on the scanner To aid in this you c...

Page 47: ...er hookup from the Settings button in the balance program 1 To begin click the Densitometer button on the Balance Program s main window This will display the Densitometer dialog box as well as a graph...

Page 48: ...log box back to the main screen and calculate the changes to the EMU file that are necessary to correct the color balance These changes will not be made to the EMU file itself until you click the Appl...

Page 49: ...ere you have exceeded the maximum exposure level that the material you are calibrating can handle This is caused by the D max Targets being set too high in the Chromira Balance program s Densitometer...

Page 50: ...window that is too high for the Chromira to achieve on the particular material being used This causes the Balance program to increase the Chromira s exposure output above the point where changes in th...

Page 51: ...nt you should see that at least the top few patches look like they are all black If they do not then increase the Density setting in the Emulsion dialog box even more and try another print 5 On this D...

Page 52: ...is set up in such a way that the computer running Chromira Balance can not open and change the Emulsion EMU file on the Chromira Computer Note that this can happen even if the Balance program is runni...

Page 53: ...this was not the problem you may have to ask a network administrator to help find this problem If the network settings were not preventing the Chromira Balance program to make changes to the EMU file...

Page 54: ...s or less of print or fan in after about 24 inches of print The Chromira head is Experiencing a slight drift in balance This can be overcome by printing about 12 inches of print then immediately makin...

Page 55: ...Rev 3 2001 55...

Page 56: ...n Encoder Remove the paper from the machine and clean the drum with alcohol and a soft clean cloth paying close attention to the area under the Drum Position Encoder Lines appear on one side of print...

Page 57: ...Rev 3 2001 57 information...

Page 58: ...pear all the way across the print but appear inconsistently in no apparent order Printer may also experience slow printing speed The Drum Drive belts are dirty or are at incorrect tension adjustment P...

Page 59: ...Rev 3 2001 59 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS Simple Windows NT Networking Setup...

Page 60: ...should also have your Windows NT Installation Disk handy if doing this procedure on a Chromira NT computer this disk will not be needed Please perform the following steps on each NT workstation 1 Rig...

Page 61: ...umbers with a number from 1 to 253 which will be unique to this computer Use the period dot key to advance through the four numbers 12 Fill in the Subnet Mask as 255 255 255 0 13 Make sure the Default...

Page 62: ...know you have more than one setup according to the procedure outlined here try pinging one as follows Start a Command Prompt Start Menu Programs Command Prompt At the command line type PING 192 168 0...

Page 63: ...even if it is in another Workgroup If Find does not work please review the settings you made during the setup procedure If Find works then you simply have to wait a bit for Windows to figure out the...

Page 64: ...WinNT to allow non Administrators to run the Chromira Application As Administrator Go to Start Settings Control Panel Devices Scroll down to the entry labeled Galil Choose Startup and change the type...

Page 65: ...iage and allows the computer to place the pixels onto the photo paper as the head traverses the length of the air rail Important The Linear Encoder Strip is very fragile and should be handled with car...

Page 66: ...total screws 2 With the Air Pressure turned ON move the head over to your left 3 Loosen and remove the two screws B holding the right end of the Encoder Strip This will free both the retainer block a...

Page 67: ...Encoder Strip 1 Orient the new Strip in the same position as the old one The thin film part of the strip should be at the bottom 2 Gently move the head as far as it will go to the left 3 Holding the n...

Page 68: ...ld it in place removed in Step 3 Some of the strip will be sticking out from the far side of this clamp This is normal 9 Tighten these two screws moderately to hold this end in place 10 With the Linea...

Page 69: ...corrected using the tensioning screws 17 Adjust the tensioning screws until the strip is straight As a rule during adjustment do not loosen these screws as a loose screw will not hold a setting Over...

Page 70: ...Chromira 70...

Page 71: ...99 25 inches You would then divide 100 inches by this 99 25 inches You divide into 100 inches because this is the actual size of the digital file 100 99 25 1 00756 5 decimal points is fine 5 Next ins...

Page 72: ...Chromira 72 Chromira Motion Control Reset and Re Burn Procedure Please follow these procedures exactly as stated...

Page 73: ...ormation window will appear 5 Change the Model to read DMC1700 by clicking the arrow next to the Model box 6 Check that the Timeout setting is 5000 and set the Delay setting to 0 7 In the Bus Controll...

Page 74: ...ng the bottom 11 Click the Editor button at the bottom of this box A small text editor window will appear 12 In the text editor click File then Open A standard Windows style File Open box will appear...

Page 75: ...e controller has now been reconfigured Close this program completely so that you come back to a blank Windows desktop 18 Re connect the AC Power plug removed in step 2 19 Restart the Chromira Printer...

Page 76: ...ton Tensioner Arm Pots Paper Feed Tensioner Arm Motor Encoder Head Motor Encoder Drum Motor Encoder Drum Position Encoder Paper Take Up Tensioner Arm Motor Encoder Side Plate and Motors on this side E...

Page 77: ...ad Power Cable D 25 Female Connects to Chromira s Head Power Supply Head Control Cable D 25 Female Connects to Chromira s Main Head Cable Head Data Cable 100 Pin Male Header Connects to Chromira s Mai...

Page 78: ...Head Feed Take Up Pot 1 Full CCW Full CCW Full CCW Full CCW Pot 2 Full CW 8 turns CW 6 turns CW 6 turns CW Pot 3 Full CW Full CW Full CW Full CW Pot 4 No adjust No adjust No adjust No adjust Pink Gre...

Page 79: ...n for calibrate NO then set modes YES Press button under words to change their settings to p1 BAUD PN5 9600 OFF p2 aid rci p3 COMP DPT p4 LANG ENG Note All of these settings are case sensitive X Rite...

Page 80: ...2 Interface Cable Pinout Notes This is a not a standard Null Modem Cable For PC s with a 25 pin Serial Connector use a standard RS 232 9 Pin to 15 Pin adapter D 9 Female Connector to PC Pin Function D...

Page 81: ...on Then press the cnfg button Match the setting to the following P1 Lang Tone Net ENG optional OUT P2a RCI PIN5 XON P2b dpt comp alf P2c del AXMT ref P2d baud the higher the baud the fast the data tra...

Page 82: ...e of the densitometer Set data bits to the default 8 Set the Parity to the default None Set the Stop bits to the default 1 Set the Densitometer model to X Rite 880 Series Click ok To read a strip clic...

Page 83: ...unction again to select No for calibrate Then press Zero to choose Yes for modes Press the Function key twice to reach the I O RS232 menu then press Zero to select it Press the Zero key to change sett...

Page 84: ...onfiguration Menu Settings Enter the mode menu as for the X Rite 414 using the down arrow key at the far left in place of the FUNCTION key Select the following settings RESP G T E N COMP ON OFF X10 ON...

Page 85: ...Read Enter button on the lower left to switch between screens Output Type SERIAL Yes PRINTER Yes No End of line characters CR Yes No LF Yes No Baud rate Don t care Data Stop bits DATA 7 8 STOP 1 2 Se...

Page 86: ...Chromira 86 Note Other model densitometers may work with the Chromira balance application Check your manual for serial port information and setup instructions...

Page 87: ...at the proper position Appendix C refer back to page 46 is the view from the bottom of the machine It is very important to connect all the cables in the right positions The best thing to do is note t...

Page 88: ...for position 6 Unscrew each of the six screws that mount the board to the main deck The screws are located on the top side of the deck See Appendix A 7 Remove board and replace with new one 8 Screw ea...

Page 89: ...e for the installation of the Air Solenoid and its related components Warnings Before beginning this installation please observe the following Power should be turned off before doing any work on the C...

Page 90: ...es Utility Knife or razor blade Motion Control Power Supply provided by ZBE Air Solenoid provided by ZBE The installation procedure starts on the following page For any questions or other problems ple...

Page 91: ...hey are routed 7 Take out all four screws from the top of the Power Supply case 8 Take out the four screws inside the Power Supply which hold it to the floor inside the Chromira and remove the Power S...

Page 92: ...removed in step 8 18 Put the new Power Supply s cover back on 19 Route the two cables from the new Power Supply to the Junction Board female connector goes towards the feed side and male connector go...

Page 93: ...e Chromira Air Solenoid and the new Motion Control Power Supply When the machine has started up again go into the Preferences Menu in Chromira Printer to set the amount of time the air will stay on af...

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