Epson SC-F3000 Series User Manual page 4

SC-F3000 Series User's Guide
Maintenance
When to Perform Various Maintenance
Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Cleaning Locations and Cleaning Timing. . . . . . 76
Locations of Consumables and Replacement
Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Other maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cautions when operating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using ink cleaner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Cleaning the Sensor Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Clean around the print head and the edges of
the metal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Cleaning the Suction Cap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Cleaning the Platen Without a Grip Pad. . . . . . . 88
Replacing Consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Shaking and Replacing Ink Supply Units. . . . . . 89
Disposing of Waste Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Replacing the Head Cleaning Set. . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Replacing the Anti-Drying Caps. . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Replacing the Air Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Other maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Checking for clogged nozzles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Head Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Changing the Printer Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Pre-Storage Maintenance for Long-Term
Non-Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Disposal of used consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Disposal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Control Panel Menu
Menu List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Details of the Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
General Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Media Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Maintenance menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Supply Status menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Status menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Problem Solver
What to Do When a Message Is Displayed. . . . . . 121
When a Maintenance Request/Printer Error
Occurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
You cannot print (because the printer does not
work). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Contents
The printer operates, but does not print. . . . . . 124
Print results are not what you expected. . . . . . . 124
Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Appendix
Options and Consumable Products. . . . . . . . . . . 133
Ink Supply Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Maintenance Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Notes When Moving or Transporting the Printer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Preparing to Move. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Setting up the Printer After Moving. . . . . . . . . 139
Transporting the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Printable area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Table for Platen Gap setting values for media
thicknesses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
When using L/M/S size hanger platens or the
XS size platen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
When using the sleeve or medium grooved
platens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Epson Edge Dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Garment Creator for SC-F3000 Series. . . . . . . . 145
Garment Creator Easy Print System
(Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Specifications Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Where To Get Help
Technical Support Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Contacting Epson Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Before Contacting Epson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Help for Users in North America. . . . . . . . . . . 150
Help for Users in Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Help for Users in Taiwan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Help for Users in Australia/New Zealand. . . . . 151
Help for Users in Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Help for Users in Thailand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Help for Users in Vietnam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Help for Users in Indonesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Help for Users in Hong Kong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Help for Users in Malaysia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Help for Users in India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Help for Users in the Philippines. . . . . . . . . . . 153
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