Maintenance - Contex Wide Format Color Operator's Manual

Maintenance

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6. Maintenance
Regular scanner maintenance is a sure way to minimize costly
downtime. The Automatic Scanner Maintenance system supported on
your scanner hinders your scanner from degrading over time. The
three routine maintenance procedures cleaning, camera alignment
and calibration will improve image quality and reduce your service
costs.
The three maintenance functions are closely entwined and they
should all be performed in a single maintenance session, starting with
cleaning the scan area and ending with calibration. The reason for this
is simple. If you clean the glass or adjust the cameras then you will
have changed conditions in the scanning area and will need to
calibrate in order to readjust black, white and color interpretation. This
works the other way as well – scanner calibration must always be
preceded by cleaning and camera alignment to get reliable calibration
results.
Scanner Maintenance is very easy to perform and most of it is
completely automatic. After manually cleaning the scan area, you just
insert a Maintenance Sheet, start the Maintenance program and let
the wizard take over as it performs camera alignment and calibration.
The tools for scanner maintenance were supplied with your scanner -
including the program that will check your scanner and guide you
through the maintenance steps. For best results, install the Scanner
Maintenance program from the WIDEsystem TOOLS CD-ROM and
run the maintenance procedures after setting up your scanner for the
first time.
Full instructions for perfect scanner maintenance through
cleaning, alignment and calibration are included on the
WIDEsystem TOOLS CD-ROM that came with your scanner.