Your Arizona printer uses LED UV-curable ink. Daily and weekly maintenance activities are necessary to maintain optimum printing performance. Due to the use of UV LED curing technology, the ink is effectively cured immediately after printing, but a small residual curing effect can continue for up to 24 hours. In most cases, the printed material can be handled or cut directly after printing.
Managing Your UV-curable Ink
Your printer is optimized for UV-curable ink supplied by Canon Production Printing. The ink is supplied in a collapsible bag. To install ink on the printer, the bag is inverted and a quick connect coupler is engaged. This opens up the flow path for the ink. The bags contain tags that identify them to the printer when they are loaded. This allows the printer to ensure that the correct ink is loaded.
Ink bags have several benefits over bottles or cartridges:
Self-collapsing bags make it easy to see how much ink remains in each bag.
Virtually all the ink is successfully extracted from the bag by the printer, reducing the otherwise costly waste of usable ink.
Ink changes are performed without mess or spills, keeping the environment around the printer clean.
Ink changes can be performed during printing. This prevents wasted prints and lost time.
Only qualified ink can be used. If a bag of ink with an invalid serial number, expired use-by date, incorrect color placement in the ink bay, or if an expired tag is connected to the printer, then the operator is alerted and an error message is displayed.
NOTE
Some ink types have a varnish available and some have not. Consult your Canon representative for the details.
Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for the ink and Flush are available from http://downloads.cpp.canon. Read and periodically review this safety information to ensure optimal safe handling procedures. Follow proper emergency responses when using UV inks and flush.
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.
IMPORTANT
Do not install ink that is not certified by Canon Production Printing for use in this printer, as this may result in poor quality prints, uncured ink in the finished prints and permanent damage to the ink pumps, filters, ink lines or printheads.
The printheads in your printer are protected from contaminants in the ink by means of ink filters. These are easily accessed and can be replaced by the operator when they become blocked with debris (see the Maintenance section "Change Ink Filters").
NOTE
A loss of pigment when printing a nozzle check or long ink fill times indicates that a filter is clogged and must be replaced.
To ensure print quality and to extend the life of printheads in your printer, UV inks must be properly handled and stored correctly.
Inks must be stored within a temperature range of 5 - 30°C (41 - 86°F). Exposure to extreme temperatures will reduce the expected life of the ink.
Do not use ink that is past the expiry date.
Store in cool, dry place and keep away from heat and direct sunlight.
If your printer has the white ink option and white is not printed on a regular basis, pigment settling can occur in the white ink printheads. During periods of white ink inactivity, the printer will automatically try to maintain the white ink channel using the following methods:
ink recirculating
spitting
Additional efforts may be required to recover nozzle performance for the white ink printheads.