Printing; About Roland Colorchoice; Downloading Printing Data - Roland FJ-500 User Manual

2 Basic Operation

2-5 Printing

NOTICE
Opening the front cover while printing is in progress causes an emergency stop. This means that printing may
not be carried out correctly even if operation is resumed, due to drop-out or misalignment of the image.
To pause printing for any other reason than an emergency stop, press the [PAUSE] key.
Note pressing the [PAUSE] key to pause operation may result in differing image quality before and after the
pause. It is a good idea to avoid pausing operation while printing is in progress whenever possible.
If you will leave the printing head being uncapped for a long time (for example, open the front cover while
printing is made on the middle of platen), printing heads may get clogging and, in some case it results unrecov-
erable damage to the printing head.
Do not use the [
pass over the printed surface, smudging the ink.
Also, do not use the [
may make tracks on the material, resulting in poor printing precision.
During printing, do not touch the portion of the material that's already been discharged.
Doing so may obstruct material feed or cause the material to rub against the heads, which may result in a paper
jam or damage to the heads.

About Roland COLORCHOICE

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Roland COLORCHOICE , which is on the included Roland COLORCHOICE
takes printing data such as a PostScript file received from a program, performs raster image processing on the computer, and outputs the
data to the FJ-500/400.
(Raster image processing converts images and text in a format such as PostScript to bitmap data.)
For more information about Roland COLORCHOICE

Downloading Printing Data

Printing is started when data is sent.
If the top menu isn't displayed, printing doesn't start even when
data is sent from the computer.
Conditions for starting printing
The material must be already set up (with the SETUP LED
lighted),
and the display must show the top menu.
If another menu screen is displayed, press the [SETUP] key to
go back to the top menu.
(Pressing the [SETUP] key when another menu screen is
displayed does not cancel the set-up for the material.)
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] key to return a portion of the material that's already been printed. The pinch rollers may
] and [ ] keys to feed and return unprinted portions many times. The grit rollers
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, see the Roland COLORCHOICE
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CD-ROM, is a software raster image processor, or RIP. It
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User's Manual with the machine.
Top menu
W 1234 mm
NORMAL BI-DIR