Maintaining The Printer; Routine Maintenance Schedule - Stratasys Objet24 User Manual

Operating & Maintaining the Objet24 3D Printer

Maintaining the Printer

Routine
Maintenance
Schedule
6–18
The performance of routine maintenance tasks is essential for getting
satisfactory results from Objet 3D printers. Perform the tasks at specified
intervals for optimum performance.
When switching the printer to online mode, a message is displayed if a
maintenance activity is required to ensure optimum printing quality.
Maintenance notifications can be disabled/enabled from the Options menu.
Frequency
After every print job
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly
Every 300 hours of
printing (A reminder
message appears.)
Every 300 hours of
printing
Monthly, and after
replacing print heads
Every 500 hours of
printing, or once every
six months
Every 1000 hours of
printing, or once a year
Once a year
Task
Clean the print heads
and the roller surface.
Perform the Pattern test.
Clean and inspect the
wiper.
Restart the printer
computer and the
server computer.
Calibrate the UV
intensity.
Optimize the print
heads.
Check the alignment of
the print heads.
Calibrate the load cells.
Preventive maintenance.
Preventive maintenance is
performed alternately, by
the customer and an
authorized service
engineer.
Inspect the activated‐
carbon odor filter, and
replace if necessary.
For More Information
See "Cleaning the Print
Heads and the Roller"
on page 19.
See "Pattern Test" on
page 20.
See "Cleaning and
Replacing the Wiper"
on page 22.
See "Testing and
Calibrating the UV
Lamp" on page 48.
See "Optimizing
(Calibrating) Print
Heads" on page 30.
See "Aligning the Print
Heads" on page 27.
See "Calibrating the
Load Cells" on page 51.
Contact your Stratasys
service provider.
See "Replacing the
Odor Filter" on
page 53.
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