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  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 29 Clogged jets Clogged jets cannot be automatically detected and therefore must be cleared manually. If a jet is clogged, it will appear in the prime pattern as a gap in the sloping line for each cartridge. To clear a clogged jet, clean the affected cartridge according to the Mainte- nance Guide on your system CD-ROM. Your goal is to eliminate all gaps in the “stair step” pattern before starting your job. If you are unable to clear the jets you should compensate for them manually. Start by printing the manua

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 11 7 Rotate the heater back into place and reinstall the screws. Reinstall the rest of the heater assembly. When replacing the grill, be sure to slide it securely into the interlock switch. Removing protective shipping material CAUTION: Before turning on the printer, make sure to remove the protective foam material that secures the carriage and remove the protective film from the control panel. Connecting power 1 Plug the power cord into the power connector on the back of the printer and plug the other end into an appropriately-rated, grounded outlet. Be sure to use a 20

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 3 Contents Environmental considerations ...............................................................6 Unpacking your printer.........................................................................6 Assembling the printer.........................................................................6 Installing the infrared (IR) bulb ..............................................................9 Removing protective shipping material ................................................. 11 Connecting power ....

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 14 Choosing menu functions To select a function, press the button adjacent the function displayed. The display will list options available for the selected function. Press the button for the option you want and press OK to accept the selection. Depending on the type of menu, you can return to the previous menu level by pressing the OK or Exit button. There is no way to immediately return to the top level menu. Press the Cancel button to restore the previous setting and exit the menu. Refer to the Reference Guide on the System CD for a description of all the menu features. Setting the language With the appropriate firmware vers

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 35 Cartridge recognition The printer is designed to use only cartridges specific to your printer model. To eliminate potential damage to the printer, a Cartridge Recognition feature checks to ensure that the proper cartridges are installed, and that they are installed correctly. Cartridge recognition is performed when a print request is received (i.e., image data, prime, etc.). In addition to cartridge recognition, the printer automatically performs tests on the cartridges and uses the information t

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 5 VinylJet Quick Start Congratulations on your purchase of a VinylJet wide format color printer. This guide gives you details on the following: • unpacking and assembling the printer • installing the infrared (IR) bulb • loading media • filling ink reservoirs • installing ink cartridges • installing the media cutter • priming ink system • aligning cartridges. Your printer is designed to print on uncoated, untreated vinyl. The printed piece does not require

  • ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 31 Paper axis calibration Choosing Utility Menu/Calibration Menu/Paper Axis Test lets the printer draw a set of vertical marks to calibrate the paper axis. To measure the marks laid down by the printer, you will need a ruler or scale at least 33 inches (838.2 mm) long. (CD#2 of the System CD set contains a ruler file than can

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 26 8 Open the ink delivery line by pushing the valve down. 9 Wait 60 seconds for the ink pressure to stabilize. Remove the cartridge from the carriage and remove the blue tape from the jet plate area of the cartridge. CAUTION! Do not tilt the cartridge up higher than a 30 degree angle. This could cause the cartridge to lose pressure.

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet Series Printer Quick Start Guide P/N 219523-00 (Text P/N 219509-1 Rev. 1) Copyright Eastman Kodak Company, 2002 KODAK, ENCAD ® , VinylJet ® , NovaJet ® , CADJET ® , Extreme Color Printing™, and Graphic Outdoor Matched System™ (GO) are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No part of this manual may be copied or distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated in any human or computing language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic or otherwi

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 27 Check for ink on the jet plate. Continuous bleeding of the jet plate indicates a loss of vacuum in the cartridge or an air leak in the lines. A small amount of ink can be cleaned off the jet plate by dabbing with a moist, lint-free cloth. 10 Reinstall the cartridge into the carriage. 11 Repeat for each ink delivery line being used. 12 Press Utility Menu/Access Cartridge to return the carriage to the service station. 13 With power on, allow the printer to warm up for at least 15 minutes. Perform the Start Routine

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 17 6 Insert the media's leading edge into the back of the printer, aligning the media edge with the alignment mark on the platen. Continue pushing the media up into the printer. After a few seconds, the printer will sense the presence of the media and feed it automatically. Be sure that the media is fed so that it passes in front of the IR bulb safety shield. Note: Be sure that a media core is installed on the takeup roll. Attach the leading edge of the media to the takeup roll with three pieces of tape: o

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 22 Installing ink cartridges Your printer uses cartridges that were specifically designed for it. They are not compatible with cartridges designed for other printer models. Use of other cartridges may damage the printer and/or prevent it from printing. Ink cartridges ship prefilled with ink and preprimed. Leave the needle assembly connected when installing the cartridge. ! Do not touch the jet area or the flex contact area of the ink cartridge. ! Work with only one

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 20 Filling the ink reservoirs The printer can support long, uninterrupted printing runs because of the large capacity of each of the four ink reservoirs. The ink reservoirs are located on the left side of the printer. Note: Refill reservoirs when the ink level is approximately 50ml or 1/4 inch from the bottom. Allowing ink levels to drop lower increases the risk of getting air in the ink lines and losing pressure. Be sure to use the same ink type in all the reservoirs and ink cartridges. ➪ To fill the ink reservoirs 1 Open the reservoir door. 2 Push the button on the valve to r

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 32 You should perform Color Deadband Compensation before performing Vertical and Horizontal Color Calibration. Perform Color Deadband Calibration and Color Calibration each time a cartridge is replaced with a different cartridge. ➪ To perform color deadband compensation 1 With media loaded, press Utility Menu/Calibration Menu/Color DB Menu/ Color DB Test. The test pattern prints as shown below. 9 8 7 6 Y M C K 2 For each color, examine the vertical lines and select the straightest lines. Note the compensation number at the bottom of the lines you selected. 3 Existing compensation values are printed

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 34 ➪ To perform horizontal color calibration 1 With media loaded, press Utility Menu/Color Calib Menu/(color) Horizontal. The test patterns print as shown below. -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 Horizontal head-to-head test pattern Black Cyan Magenta Yellow CURRENT HEADS (Y,M,C) Examine the registration + in the Current Heads Test Pattern. If they are in register, your calibration is correct. If not, perform the following steps to align the printer heads. 2 Examine the Horizontal Head-

  • ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 7 CAUTION: Be careful not to pinch the cable when attaching the leg. 4 We recommend two people perform the following steps. Turn the box 90 degrees so that the media sensors are on top. Slide the printer out of the box and then rotate it upright. Remove the assembled printer and stand from the box. Save th

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 30 ➪ To print the manual jet compensation list: 1 From the main menu, select Utility Menu/Calibration Menu/Open Jet Menu/Print Jet List. o Black Edit List Print Jet List o o Cyan Edit List o o Magenta Edit List o o Yellow Edit List Exit o The jet status list prints as illustrated below, showing current jet compensation list by number for each cartridge. Manual Jet Compensation List Y: None M: 1,3,10 C: None K: 10,21,30,128 2 To add a jet to the compensation list, select Utility Menu/Calibration Menu/Open Jet Menu and press the button that designates the cartridge where the jet resides. o Black Edit

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 25 6 When ink is visible in the ink primer sight tube (should take 5-10 seconds), close the ink delivery lines by pushing valve up and remove the needle assembly from the cartridge and discard or save as a spare. Note: Once removed from the delivery line, continue to press the button on the ink primer a few seconds longer to prevent leaking from the primer. 7 Connect the needle assembly from the cartridge to the fitting on the carrier.

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 36 ➪ To connect your computer directly to your printer 1 Attach an IEEE 1284 parallel cable from the parallel port on your computer to the parallel port on the printer. Network configuration An optional network configuration is available. Refer to the documentation that accompmanies the print server for installation instructions. Installing and configuring your print server Your print server connects to the parallel port on the back of the printer. A bracket is included to provide

  • ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 23 Priming the ink delivery lines After filling the ink reservoirs and installing the cartridges, you will need to prime each of the ink delivery lines to establish ink flow through the lines to the ink cartridges. An ink primer is included with your printer. Be sure it has batter- ies in it before continuing. (Refer to the Main

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 10 3 On the right side of the printer, pull back on the pin to rotate the heater down. Remove the screw on the left side. 4 Remove each of the two end covers from the bulb contacts by squeezing their bottom edge and rotating them upward. 5 Push the bulb into the clips, centering the bulb in the contacts. 6 Reinstall the end covers.

  • ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 37 Canceling a print To cancel a print, first send a cancel order from the computer using the appropri- ate command for your software application. For example, you can delete the file in the Print Manager/Print Options. To clear the buffer after cancelling a print, press Reset on the Main menu. Startup routine Whenever the printer has be

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 13 ➪ To set the cure heat 1 Refer to the table above for the proper dial setting. 2 Turn the rheostat dial so that the indicator points to the proper dial setting. Using the control panel The control panel at the right side of the printer includes eight buttons and a display which indicates modes and settings. An overview is provided here so that you can load media and ink cartridges. Details on menu options are in- cluded in the Reference Guide on the system CD-ROM. The menu tree in Appendix C of the Reference Guide also gives you a summary of all the p

  • ENCAD VinylJet 36, ENGLISH VinylJet 36 Printer Quick Start Guide 21 5 Repeat for the remaining reservoirs and replace the caps. Return the reservoir to their housing and press the valve into place. Inspecting the ink cartridges Visually inspect each cartridge before installing it. Cartridge Recognition Chip Flex Contact Area Jet Area ➪ To inspect the ink cartridges 1 Check for leakage in the sealed bag in which the cartridge was shipped. If you detect any leakage, do not attempt to use the cartridge. Return the cartridge in the sealed bag for a warranty replacement. 2 Remove the cartridge from the sealed bag. Make sure the blue tape is in

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