Contents
Meaning of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Screenshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Manual Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Viewing Video Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Viewing PDF Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Front Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Rear Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Interior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ink Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Understanding and Operating the Display. . . . . . . 17
Screen View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Operating procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Notes for using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Notes for when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . 23
Notes on Handling Ink Supply Units/Cleaning
Ink Supply Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Notes on Handling White Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Notes on Handling T-shirts (Media). . . . . . . . . 25
Introducing the Supplied Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Supplied software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Built-in Software in the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using Epson Edge Dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Instructions for Starting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Registering the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Checking and Managing the Printer's Status. . . . 30
Copying media settings of other printers. . . . . . 32
Exiting procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using EPSON Software Updater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How to Use Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How to Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Function Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Closing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Under Normal Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Items for Use in Pre-treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Pre-treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cautions when operating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Agitating the polyester pre-treatment liquid. . . . 40
Opening the pre-treatment liquid. . . . . . . . . . . 41
Diluting the pre-treatment liquid. . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Applying the pre-treatment liquid. . . . . . . . . . . 43
Fixing the pre-treatment liquid. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Creating and Sending Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Workflow for Creating and Sending Jobs. . . . . . 46
Overview of Garment Creator for SC-F3000
Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Selecting the base color (T-shirt type). . . . . . . . . 50
Image arrangement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sending and printing jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Notes on Receiving Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Preparing the Platen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Attaching/Removing a Grip Pad. . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching from Polo to Zipper (only when
using the medium grooved platen). . . . . . . . . . . 56
Replacing platens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
How to change the platen position. . . . . . . . . . . 58
Load the T-shirt (media). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Loading on a Grip Pad Covered Platen. . . . . . . . 59
Loading on a Platen without a Grip Pad. . . . . . . 62
Loading on Sleeve Platens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Loading on Medium Grooved Platens. . . . . . . . 67
Starting and Canceling Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Checking the platen position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Starting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Canceling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Fixing the Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Printing from a USB Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
USB memory requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Printing Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Deleting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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