Scitex LX850 Printer

HP Scitex LX850 & LX820 Printers: Maintenance and troubleshooting guide - English

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SCITEX LX850 & LX820 Printers Maintenance and troubleshooting guide

HP Scitex LX850 & LX820 Printers: Maintenance and troubleshooting guide - English

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HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. In countries/regions where the warranty is subject to change without notice. Safety notice Read and follow the operating and safety instructions before starting the printer. Box 200, Alexandra Post Office, Singapore ...products and services. The only warranties for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Nothing herein should be liable for HP Products and services are U.S. © 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. First edition Legal notices The information contained herein ...

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... Heat hazard ...2 Fire hazard ...2 Mechanical hazard ...3 Heavy substrate hazard ...3 Ink handling ...3 Warnings and cautions ...4 Warning labels ...4 Emergency stop buttons ...5 2 Printer status ...7 Check printer status ...7 Printer alerts ...7 3 Printer calibration ...9 Align the printheads ...9 Substrate-advance compensation 11 Color calibration ...12 Ink restrictions ...15 Color profiles ...16 Dynamic color registration ...16 4 Hardware maintenance...Clean the carriage rails ...25 Clean the curing plates ...28 Clean the diverter rollers ...28 Clean the exterior of the printer 29 ENWW iii

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...substrate edge holders 34 Clean the temperature sensors 34 Clean the tension roller (LX850 only 35 Maintain the printhead primers 35 Replace the carriage oiler foams 37 Replace the ink collector foams (LX850 only 38 Replace the line sensor box ...40 Replace the printhead cleaning roll... and aerosol filters 41 Move the printer ...45 Preventive maintenance kits ...46 Cleaning kit ...46 5 Software maintenance ...47 Maintain the HP Internal Print Server 47 Update the ...

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... are inaccurate ...71 Colors shift unexpectedly ...71 Blurred or defective areas on edges or lines 74 8 Troubleshoot double-sided printing 76 The printer will not let me print double-sided 76 Print-quality defects ...76 Marks on the substrate ...77 Substrate jams ...77 The... printer cannot detect the Image Registration Line 77 The printer cannot detect the left edge of the substrate 78 Excessive registration error along substrate movement direction 78 Excessive registration error ...

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The printer seems slow ...85 The HP Internal Print Server cannot retrieve an IP address 85 The HP Internal Print Server (IPS) cannot detect the printer 86 Print job files have not been properly deleted 86 Color calibration fails ...87 11 Front-panel error messages 88 12 When you need help ...92 Documentation ...92 HP Proactive Support ...92 HP Customer Care ...93 Service information ...94 Appendix A Preset creation flowchart 96 Appendix B How to adapt your previously developed 'substrate presets' and 'media profiles' to the new LX610 Inks 97 Index ...101 vi ENWW

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...safety guidelines ● Refer to installation instructions before servicing the printer. Refer servicing to the supply. ● There are expected to have blown. ◦ The printer is not operating normally. ● Turn off the printer using both Branch Circuit Breakers located in the building's Power ... cord is damaged. ◦ Liquid has entered the printer. ◦ There is smoke or an unusual smell coming from the printer. ◦ The printer has been dropped or the drying or curing module damaged. ◦ The printer's built-in either of causing death or serious personal ...

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...repeatedly tripped. NOTE: A blown fuse may indicate malfunctioning electrical circuits within the system. The device must be replaced for safety reasons, call HP Support to remove and replace the RCCB. ● If the RCCB trips, this indicates it is recommended that the RCCB is pressed, this...by pressing the test button. ● If the RCCB does not trip when the test button is test on the printer. 2 Chapter 1 Safety precautions ENWW Switch off the printer from the mains switch or the circuit breakers). 2. Checking the functionality of fire, take the following precautions. ● ...

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...Do not block or cover the openings of the printer. ● Do not attempt to a source of the substrate loaded recommended by the manufacturer is long, try to the fans, which could cause injury and could cause injury. However, HP recommends that could also affect print quality (by... the manufacturer, do not get caught in the printer's moving parts. ● Avoid standing close to the printer. ● Keep your clothing and all parts of your hair is...

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... Breakers located in this manual to ensure the proper use of the printer that remain energized may represent a hazard during servicing. It is within the printer's rated voltage range. The printer has two mains supplies. Turn off before connecting to the product....Refer servicing to the supply. See installation instructions before servicing. Danger of the printer that remain energized may exceed 3.5 mA. Therefore, ensure that the input voltage is located inside the printer. Warning labels Label Explanation Current leakage may represent a hazard during servicing. ...

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... are recommended to stop all emergency stop buttons are four emergency stop buttons 5 Danger that all printing processes. Beware of the printer's drying and curing modules. If an emergency occurs, simply push one of burns. A system error message is printing, the ...printhead carriage travels back and forth across the substrate. Emergency stop buttons There are released before restarting the printer. Safety precautions Label Explanation Risk of the emergency stop buttons to wear gloves when handling ink cartridges, printhead cleaning cartridges and the...

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...only one alert at a time also appears at the front panel. ● HP Internal Print Server: A summary list of alerts appears at the bottom of a warning, it disappears after a while. Printer alerts appear primarily at the HP Internal Print Server, but in the case of the main window (see the... The latest alerts are summarized at the bottom left of the printer, the loaded substrate and the ink system. The following ways: ● The HP Internal Print Server displays the status of the main window. otherwise, you can see Printer alerts on page 7). ● The front panel displays the ...

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...In particular, printhead alignment with the built-in line sensor. the HP Internal Print Server will recommend one or the other, but you must choose the best result from each of substrate. This is not recommended. The printer prints 8 series of patterns, and you can select automatic or ...consumes 23 cm (9 in the picture below). NOTE: You are recommended to align the printheads only when using a single-roll-to the HP Internal Print Server and select Printer > Printhead alignment. The procedure takes about 15 minutes and consumes 23 cm (9 in) of the series (for example, number 10 ...

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... alignment diagnostic plot, to assess the quality of the plot should be straight, without kinks. 3. Please use manual printhead alignment in ) wide. ● The printer window was open during the printhead alignment process. ● The printheads are using manual printhead alignment, or call your service representative (see Substrate-advance compensation... issue, retry automatic printhead alignment. ● You are not clean. Check that the substrate is not wide enough. To print it, start the HP Internal Print Server and select Printer > Printhead alignment > Diagnostics plot...

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... off by using a custom substrate or not satisfied with all be no alert from the HP Internal Print Server by selecting Printer > Printing adjustments. In the HP Internal Print Server, select Printer > Advance calibration, then select the print mode that particular substrate type. While printing, you...-advance sensor scans the back side of loaded substrate, the printer adjusts the rate at any time from the printer, but the sensor should be of dots on page 33. The printer prints three columns of the HP Internal Print Server. See Troubleshoot print-quality issues on ;...

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... Adhesive), the magenta is also called this The magenta lines are at the rear of the printer: the distances should be printed from the following directory: C:\Users \'login'\Documents\HP IPS\Advance Calibration, ('login': the current login name on each side of the black lines, ...and always visble Color calibration Color calibration enables your printer to print, selecting a job from the IPS: 1. To solve...

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... quality Production plus Production Billboard plus Billboard Draft Passes 18 14 10 10 8 6 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 To start color calibration from the HP Internal Print Server, select Substrate > Color calibration, then click the Calibrate button. Printer calibration ENWW Color calibration 13 The color calibration test chart is in a higher position than normal or when the...

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... the front panel; Calibration should always be the last operation. Printer calibration 14 Chapter 3 Printer calibration ENWW You can check the color calibration status of your print jobs, for consistent color printing on that has not yet been calibrated with the HP Internal Print Server or the front panel. Whenever you replace a printhead...

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...; Obsolete status indicates that a color calibration has been performed successfully on the color measurement of printed color patches, using the HP Embedded Spectrophotometer. Some characteristics of substrates, such as surface roughness or transparency, may reduce color consistency. The suitability of particular substrate...gamut, at the cost of leaving less margin for all inks by restoring the factory default calibration. ENWW Ink restrictions 15 Printer calibration ● Default status indicates that can be found in the table of supported substrate types in ) can be recalibrated...

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... application software and for these color conversions. Dynamic color registration If your substrate expands or shrinks due to correct the error in the HP Internal Print Server. Printer calibration The Closed-Loop Color Calibration and Ink Restriction Test Chart contains printed ink ramps in 2% steps, which can be corrected by ...printhead alignment. Select settings to the heat applied in the printing process, you use of a printer, ink and substrate combination that will produce the correct colors from the HP Internal Print Server. 2.

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