Printing At 90; Positioning Multiple Printheads - Kodak VERSAMARK DS5110 Operator's Manual

Chapter 1. Getting Started
Setting Up the Printhead
Substrate moving vertically
Print array
1 - 8
Printing at 90°
The printhead starts up, prints, and shuts down from all angular positions
between 6 ft (1.83 m) above and 2 ft (0.61 m) below the base plate of the
printer.
When printing with the substrate at a 90° angle to the ground, position the
printhead so that the front cover of the printhead faces the ground and the
print array faces the substrate, as shown in Figure 1.5.
Figure 1.5 Printing at 90°

Positioning Multiple Printheads

Position multiple printheads as closely together as possible. The most
downstream printhead (the last printhead to print) must finish printing
before the next substrate passes under the cue sensor. (See the section
"Determining Cue Distance and Cue Delay" in this chapter.)
The following dimensions, shown in Figure 1.6, need to be considered:
• Feedstroke - the substrate length plus the distance between
substrates
• Cue distance - the distance between the cue sensor and the print
array of each printhead
• Image length - the length of the image being printed.
For proper positioning, feedstroke must be equal to or greater than
the cue distance for each printhead plus the image length.