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Maintenance Guidelines

Introduction

This section describes what is required for printer maintenance.

Equipment

  • Safety glasses with side shields

  • Gloves (for example: Ansell Microflex 93-260)

  • Foam Tipped Swab (3010118211)

  • Cloth-Poly Wipe 10cm x 10cm (lint-free)

  • Surface Cleaner

  • Isopropyl alcohol - IPA (>= 98%)

CAUTION

Wear gloves when contact with ink or maintenance materials is possible. Gloves should always overlap sleeves. Follow the ink related Safety Data Sheets (SDS) guidelines carefully in order to ensure maximum safety. For example use Ansell Microflex 93-260 gloves, which offer a protection against UV inks and flush up to one hour. Pollution with other chemicals can shorten the protection time against UV inks and flush.

Wear eye protection as prescribed in this document when performing a task or action in this area.

Wear protective sleeves during printhead maintenance (for example DuPont Tychem 6000 F oversleeve model PS32LA).

Operator Maintenance

Daily

Procedure

Startup procedure

(at the beginning of each work day)

  1. Print a nozzle check

    When there are too many failing nozzles, do the following procedure:

  2. Dry Printhead Swabbing Procedure

  3. Print a nozzle check

    If the print is not ok, do the following procedure:

  4. Automatic Printhead Maintenance (AMS)

  5. Print a nozzle check

    If the print is not ok, do the following procedure:

  6. Manual Ink Purge and Printhead Swabbing

Maintain White Ink

Clean Ink Spit Tray

Clean Carriage Underside

Clean Automatic Maintenance Station

Shutdown procedure

(at the end of a productive session before a long time idle state (overnight or during the weekend))

Weekly

Procedure

AMS Printhead Maintenance

Clean Printheads

Empty the Waste Trays

Monthly

Procedure

Replace UV LED unit Filters

Clean Linear Gantry Rails

Clean UV LED unit window

Check Coolant level

Incident based, as needed

Procedure

Clean Horizontal Surfaces

Remove Ink from Table

Clean the covers around the Spit Tray

Needed when indicated on the operator panel

Procedure

Bleed ink filter (CMYK)

After 5 Bags

Bleed ink filter (White)

After 1 Bag,

and weekly

Change Ink Filters

After 50 liters of ink, or if pigment looks weak