Setting Leaf Media - MIMAKI TS500P-3200 Operation Manual

• Surface waviness or ruck may affect the quality of
currently printed image.
When fixing media with tape, align the media
along the direction indicated with an arrow in the
figure.
• If you pull the media too much when fixing with
tape, the media tension may not be even. And, it
may negatively affect the media feeding.
16
Press
• Loosen the media until it reaches to the floor.
17
With switches of the take-up device, roll up
the media about once.
(1) Making the left switch to [MANUAL] and the
right  switch to the direction taking up the
media, take up the media.
(2) Just before the media stretched tight, turn
the left switch to [AUTO] to stop.
• Rolling up the media too tight, covers of take-up
device opens and an error [Cover Open] appears.
In this case, open the right cover of the take-up
device, and loosen the tension of the media.
18
Press
• Loosen the media until it reaches to the floor.
19
At the front, lift the tension- bar down
slowly.
• Unlock the tension-bar, and then lift it down.
Tension bar
20
Press
and to stretch the loosened media.
• Turn the switch to [AUTO]. Tension-bar lifts, taking
up the media, and automatically stops at the
proper position.
• When the tension bar does not move upward even
if you press the [][] switch, stretch the slack
media by operating the switch.

(1) Set the
the media, and turn the switch to [MANUAL].
(The tension-bar is lifted.)
• When the media is fed and the ten-
sion-bar is not lifted, turn the
switch to the other side.
(2) When the tension bar arm becomes parallel
with the floor, turn the switch to [AUTO] to
stop the tension bar.
(3) Turn the
of the media.
• The media between the take-up device and
carriage cannot be printed.
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to loosen the media.
again to loose the media.
Tension-bar lock plate
to lift the tension-bar up
switch to the take-up direction of

switch to the take-up direction

Setting leaf media

Unlike roll media, leaf media does not need to be retained
with the roll holders.
1
Open the front cover.
Front cover
2
Raise the clamp lever.
3
Insert the leaf media between the platen
and the pinch rollers.
• Set the media so that no media sticks out from the
right end pinch roller to the right side.
• Set the media so that the media end does not
reach the slot of the post-heater.
Pinch roller
4
Hold the media with the media press
gently.
• Set the media so that no media sticks out from the
right end pinch roller to the right side.
• When using a thick media, remove the media
press from the media before printing.
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Media press
• If the media gets near to the right side too much,
the warning message "MEDIA SET POSITION R"
displayed after media detection. Set the media
again.
Clamp lever