HP Scitex FB700 User Manual

							Position and eject options
The sheet-fed printing option Position/Eject, on the Printer Options menu, enables you to control
how images are positioned and whether the automatic sheet eject feature is enabled. By selecting
Auto Eject Off, you can save media by combining print jobs that are smaller than the sheet size onto
the same sheet, instead of on separate sheets. In this mode, you can print the jobs one after the
other, or “nest” them across the width of the media in rows. Position/Eject is available when the
printer is configured for sheet-fed media.
●Position options — for print jobs with a width that is less than the width of the media, you can
control where the image is positioned (flush left, flush right, centered, or nested).
●Eject options — for sheet fed jobs, you can control whether the media is ejected after each job to
the output side, input side, or not automatically ejected (Auto Eject Off).
●Nested output — when you set Eject to Auto Eject Off, and Position to Nested, the print jobs
are nested onto the media until all jobs are printed or there is no more room on the sheet.
Figure 4-2  Position options with Auto Eject Off
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							Printing tips
CAUTION:Synthetic media commonly used for inkjet printing can build up a static charge,
especially in environments with low relative humidity. This charge can pose an electrostatic discharge
(ESD) hazard to persons, the printer, and other equipment. It can be safely discharged by draping a
grounded chain or tinsel over the top of the media, or by wiping the media with a solution of 90%
isopropyl alcohol and allowing it to dry for five minutes before printing. A relative humidity of
40%-60% will greatly reduce problems with static electricity.
●Rigid cut-sheet media — use only flat, unwarped, undamaged sheets, with parallel opposite
edges and 90° corners. For optimal image quality, use smooth-surfaced media. Images printed
on porous media will lack fine detail.
●Curing continues for 24-48 hours — the UV ink will continue to cure for a day or two after
printing. Maximum durability and adhesion is achieved when the ink is fully cured.
●If you print on the media drive belt, clean the ink off the belt as soon as possible. The longer that
ink remains on the belt, the more difficult it is to remove. To remove ink from the belt, moisten
the ink with isopropyl alcohol, let stand for a few minutes, and wipe with a paper towel. Carefully
remove any flaked ink from the area.
●To avoid printing on the media drive belt when printing edge-to-edge (0 margin) jobs, you can
affix dark-colored masking tape on the belt where the sides of the media will be. Remove or
replace the tape periodically as ink accumulates on the tape.
●Do not attempt to adjust the vacuum level for the printheads. It has been factory adjusted for
best performance.
●Lighter, smaller media rolls — for lighter, smaller rolls of media, you can use the rigid media
tables and media rollers to feed the media like rigid media.
●Printing on reflective media will reflect UV light onto the printheads, which will cure the ink over
time and clog the ink jets. To minimize this:
◦Do not keep reflective media loaded on the printer when not in use.
◦Perform a manual purge after printing on reflective media.
◦Visually inspect the printheads via the service door for ink buildup or ink curing, If observed,
clean the printheads (see 
Clean the print head orifice plates (bi-weekly) on page 70).
●To load reflective media, the General Media Setting “Visible to Printer” should be set to
Visible.
●The margins for print jobs sent from the Onyx RIP cannot be set from the RIP. The margins can
be adjusted once the print job is stored on the printer, or white space can be added to the
document before it is sent to the RIP.
●To reduce printing artifacts when printing on Corrugated Plastic (Coroplast) or Polystyrene
(Sintra) sheets, try creating a custom media type with the lamps set to Low, Low. Note that this
setting could reduce the gloss of the print.
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							5 Use white ink
Introduction
With the white ink option available from HP, you can replace the light magenta and light cyan inks
with white ink, resulting in four colors of ink plus white ink. This enables you to print with white ink
using various techniques.
Printing with white ink may require special preparation of the image to be printed or special setup in
the RIP. Refer to the documentation provided with the application software and RIP for step-by-step
procedures.
White ink option overview
White ink printing is available as an option that can be delivered with a new printer or as a field
upgrade to an existing printer. If the option is delivered with a new printer, it is installed with the new
printer. In the case of a field upgrade, the option is designed to be installed either by a service
technician or by the customer operator.
The white ink option consists of two parts (see instructions that accompany the kit for detailed
instructions):
●White ink option upgrade — a one-time process that upgrades the printer to a white-ink capable
printer
●White ink conversion — replaces the existing light cyan and light magenta inks in the printer with
white ink.
Refer to the White Ink Upgrade Kit Installation Instructions, HP part number CQ114–90006, included
in the white ink upgrade accessory kit, for detailed instructions for the upgrade and conversion.
Types of white ink printing
Many different design effects can be achieved with white ink that would not be possible otherwise,
especially when printing on dark, colored, metallic, or clear media. There are three basic design
techniques for printing with white ink:
●Under-fill — a solid rectangle (or irregular shape) of printed white ink that is cured, then a color
image is printed on top of it. When used on a non-white, transparent, or reflective surface, this
can provide better color saturation or allow colors that are similar to the media color to be visible.
●Over-fill — a color image is printed and cured, a solid rectangle (or irregular shape) of white ink
is printed on top of it. This is most often printed on clear media to create a sign that is viewed on
a light box (for example, a shopping mall map, airport advertisement, or bus stop signage).
When viewed from the opposite side of the media on which it was printed, the image must be
reversed (mirrored) in the RIP or application software before printing.
●Spot color — any white shape (including text) that is cured with and in the same plane as the
rest of the artwork, rather than in a separate plane or layer. In conventional (analog) offset or
screen printing, this might be called a “knockout,” because none of the colors are overprinted.
NOTE:When printing a CMYK or CMYKcm image without a white under-fill on non-white
media, color saturation may be reduced, depending on the color of the media used.
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							White ink maintenance 
●HP White Ink Homogenizer — white inks used in wide-format printing have pigments that have a
tendency to settle over time. The printers white ink option incorporates a vibrating homogenizer
base that keeps the white ink pigments in suspension without operator intervention.
●Printhead — the automatic printhead servicing (purging and wiping) must be supplemented with
manual printhead cleaning, to enable optimal print quality.
●Shelf life — the white ink has a maximum shelf life of six months from date of manufacture.
Replace the white ink after the Warranty Ends date printed on the box.
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							6 Use the control panel
Overview
The touch-screen control panel shows you the printer’s current status, and enables you to interact
with the printer, respond to an error condition, and configure options.
The control panel is organized into pages of related functions. To switch between the pages, press
the corresponding icon at the bottom of the screen (the Activity Tray, see 
Figure 6-1 Home page
on page 29).
The control panel provides various forms of online user assistance: online help, interactive
procedures, scheduled cleaning reminders, and diagnostics.
Home page
Figure 6-1  Home page




	




The Home page is displayed when the printer is first powered on. To switch to the Home page from
another page of the software, press the Home icon in the Activity Tray.
1 Ready icon — displays when the printer is ready to print. One or more Warning informational messages may be present
(see 
Attention messages on page 30), but printing can proceed.
2 Media detection status — indicates whether media is detected. The media sensor can only detect the presence of white
or light-colored media. Clear or reflective media cannot be detected. In this case, you must enter the media width
manually when prompted by the control panel.
3 Network status — indicates whether the printer is connected to the local area network.
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							4 Ink levels — shows the current ink level for each color.
5 Printer status — indicates whether the printer is ready to print, and lists any error messages.
●Media — name of the currently configured media.
●UV Lamps — when printing, lamp intensity levels are displayed. Icons show the lamp status: black=off, yellow=on,
blinking=warming up.
6 Jobs — displays the Stored Jobs feature. See 
Stored jobs on page 23 for details.
7 Sleep/Wake mode — Sleep unloads the media, powers down the UV lamps, ionizer bar, printheads, carriage, ink
pumps, and media drive motors, but maintains vacuum to the printheads to prevent ink leakage. The fans over the
service station also continue to run. Wake powers up the printer components. The printer goes into sleep mode
automatically after a user-defined period of time, and “wakes” automatically when a print job is received or a printer
operation is performed from the control panel.
NOTE:If printhead vacuum is ever lost, the ink in the printheads will seep onto the service station. (Vacuum loss will
not result in additional ink being drawn out of the ink supply boxes.)
To prevent ink leakage during an unexpected power outage, use the vacuum system’s 24 volt auxiliary power supply
and connect it to an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). See Appendix A for specifications. It is not necessary to
connect the entire printer to a UPS, only the vacuum system needs to be connected to avoid ink seepage.
8 Configure, Load, Eject buttons — depending on whether media is configured and loaded, the appropriate buttons are
displayed.
9 Activity Tray — press any icon here to switch between control panel pages.
10 Attention icon — displays when the printer issues an Action message, which you must address before printing can
continue.
11 View Attentions — press to view Warning or Action messages .
Attention messages
The printer issues an Attention message to inform you of a condition that needs your attention. There
are three types of Attention messages:
●Actions — an error condition that stopped printing or will prevent printing from starting. You
must correct the error before the printer will be ready to print. The Attention icon blinks between
yellow and red when the message is new. After you read the message, the icon turns red.
●Warnings — a condition that, if left unaddressed, could result in substandard prints or a
condition that will require an action before printing can continue. Any action on your part is
optional. The Attention icon blinks between yellow and red when the message is new, After you
read the message, the Attention icon turns into the Ready icon unless an Action message is
present.
●Errors — detailed error information for technical support personnel. These messages do not halt
printing and require no action from the user.
When the printer issues one of these messages, press View Attentions on the Home page to display
a list of message titles, and select a title to display a detailed cause-and-recovery screen.
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							The messages are dismissed by correcting the condition, or by pressing the applicable button on the
Detail screen.
Figure 6-2  Home page with Attention message and View Attentions button
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Printing page
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							To switch to the Printing page, press the Printing icon in the Activity Tray at the bottom of the screen.
1 Status messages
●Stored Jobs status — current mode (print and save, print only, save only), number of stored jobs, number of locked
jobs. See 
Stored jobs on page 23 for details.
●UV Lamps
2 Jobs — displays the Stored Jobs feature. See 
Stored jobs on page 23 for details.
3 Options — displays the Printer Options menu. See 
Printing Options menu on page 32 for details.
4 Calibrate — displays the Calibrate Printer menu. See 
Calibrate the printer on page 45 for details.
5 Turn On Lamps/Turn Off Lamps — enables you to manually switch the UV curing lamps on and off.
Printing Options menu
●Print Position and Eject Settings — this menu option controls two related functions that enable
you to control how print jobs are positioned on sheet-fed media, and how to eject the sheets:
◦Position — when the printed image does not span the entire width of the media, positions
the printed image flush left (nearest the control panel or user side), flush right, centered, or
nested on the media (if Auto Eject Off is selected).
◦Eject — you can choose whether the media is ejected to the output or input side after each
job prints, or disable automatic eject.
See 
Position and eject options on page 25 for further details.
●Space Between Prints (roll-fed) — sets the blank space between print jobs, between 0–25 cm
(0–10 in).
●Measure Media (sheet-fed) — for cut-sheet media, you can choose various levels of precision
for finding the left (user end), right (service end), and front edges of the media. First, the printer
prompts you to select a measurement frequency (trade-off between precision and speed):
◦Measure only on first load — measure only once, after you configure the media; best for
fast throughput when precise image placement is not required or when using the media
alignment pins
◦Measure on all loads — best for precise image placement, such as for N-UP and edge-to-
edge printing
◦Don’t measure media — best for fast throughput when precise image placement is not
required and there are very wide margins around the image
After you select one of these options, the printer prompts you to select a measurement type:
◦Minimal — measures the width of the media once and finds the front right edge; no skew
detection
◦Standard — measures the width of the media once, and finds the front edge in two places
to estimate skew
◦One Edge — (available with Measure on all loads is selected) measures the user- and
service-end edges on the first sheet, user-end edge only on subsequent sheets, and the
front right edge (no skew detection). For single-sheet jobs only, not available for multi-sheet
N-UP. Works best on jobs with wider margins.
◦Maximal — measures the width of the media in two places to estimate skew
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							Choose Minimal for fastest throughput, Maximal for greatest precision and skew detection
when printing edge-to-edge.
●Measure media (roll-fed) — for roll-fed media, you can choose various levels of precision for
finding the left (user end), and right (service end) edges of the media.
◦When loading — locates the left and right edges only when loading a roll of media.
◦Before each copy — locates the left and right edges of the media before each print. This
enables the printer to compensate for any “drifting” of the media, and print the image at the
correct location.
●Use Ionizer Bar — sets whether to use the ionizer bar to reduce the electrostatic charge on
synthetic medias (the default setting is on or enabled). You may want to disable the ionizer in
humid environments where electrostatic charge is not present on the media, or to reduce the
wear on the ionizers discharge electrodes. The ionizer bar is powered on only during media
load, printing, and when the lamps are on.
●Use Thickness Sensor — sets whether to use the automatic media thickness sensor, or to
prompt you to manually enter the thickness.
●Head Height off Media — automatically raises the rail to set the printhead clearance from the
media, at the height you specify. A lower height reduces overspray, but increases the chances
for a head strike on the media. Bidi calibration is automatically adjusted for changes in this
value.
●Print White Space — provides the option of causing the printer to advance the media past
unprinted space in the document file without the usual “printing” carriage motion. The printer will
finish curing any printed areas before skipping this space. This option increases the printers
effective speed (throughput).
●Top Gutters — allows you to turn On or Off the gutter data at the top edge of the print, which
shows the job name, ink, media, date and time printed, print mode, lamps setting, printer,
embedded software version, plus write-in blanks for other data.
●Quality Check — when enabled, prevents printing from occurring if more than a certain number
of missing or misfiring jets are not replaced by working jets. You can specify whether the printer
asks you whether to stop printing with a Warning message, or if printing stops automatically
without a Warning.
●Increase UV Lamp Power — when the printer is no longer fully curing the ink on prints, use this
option to incrementally increase the lamp power. If the power needs to be increased again,
create a custom media and set the UV Lamp Power to Medium or High, or replace the bulbs (the
bulbs should be replaced in pairs). In this case, the printer will warn you that the print may not
fully cure until the bulbs are replaced. (Printing Page > Options > Increase UV Lamp Power)
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							Media page
Figure 6-4  Media page





	

To switch to the Media page, press the Media icon in the Activity Tray at the bottom of the screen.
1 Media information — media name, size, print area, printable length
2 Media Wizard — displays the Media Wizard. See 
Configure media on page 9 for details.
3 Settings — enbles you to adjust media handing and printing settings.
4 Configure — configures the printer for a media type. See 
Configure media on page 9 for instructions.
5 Eject Sheet buttons (when sheet fed media is loaded) — ejects the media sheet to the input our output side of the printer.
6 Media advance buttons — press the ▲ button to advance the media forward. Press the ▼ button to reverse the media
back.
7 Advance to cut — when roll fed media is loaded, advances the media toward the output side far enough so that it can be
cut from the supply roll.
8 Load/Unolad — depending on whether media is configured and loaded, loads or unloaded the currently configured
media.
9 Sheet Ready — when a sheet of the currently configured media is in the load position, press this button to continue the
load process.
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