Setting A Media; Setting Feeding And Take-Up Unit - MIMAKI Tx300P-1800B Operation Manual

Chapter 2 Basic Operation

Setting a Media

This machine can be used with a roll media and leaf
media.
For usable medias, refer to P.1-14 "Usable sizes of
media".
• Take care not to drop the media on your foot when
setting the media.It may cause an injury due to the
media.
• When setting a roll media, work by two or more
people. Otherwise, you may hurt your back by the
weight of the roll media.
• Adjust the head height prior to setting the media.If
the head height is adjusted after the media is set,
this may cause a media jamming, deterioration of
the print quality or head damage.

Setting Feeding and Take-up unit

For the "Feeding and Take-up unit" settings, set the
following items:
• Use feeding unit and take-up unit/ Do not use feeding unit or
take-up unit.
• Use/Do not use feeding tension bar.
• Use or not use of the peeling.
• Operation when the ON/OFF switch for feeding/ take-up unit
is pressed.
In this machine, by selecting how to use the feeding
tension bar in the feeding/take-up unit setting, you can
print by any of the following two methods.
Feeding tension bar
Use Set the media refer to
Do not use Set the media refer to
In addition, by selecting the manner to use the peeling
function, you can print by any of the following two
methods.
Peeling
Use Set the media refer to
Do not use Set the media refer to
Press
1
in LOCAL.
• MACHINE SETUP MENU will be displayed.
Press
2
UP UNIT", and press the
Press the
3
• "FEEDING UNIT" will be selected.
Press
4
press the
• Set Value: ON/ OFF
• When you select [OFF], proceed to the Step 7.
Press , and press teh
5
• "FEEDING TENSION BAR" will be selected.
Press
6
press the
• Set Value: ON/ OFF
2-4
How to set the media
P.2-7.
P.2-13.
How to set the media
P.2-14.
P.2-14.
(MENU) (twice)
to select "FEEDING/TAKE-
key.
key.
to select a set value, and
key.
key.
to select a set value, and
key.
Press , and press the
7
• "TAKE-UP UNIT" will be selected.
Press to select a set value, and
8
press the
• Set Value: ON/ OFF
Press , and press the
9
• "PEELING UNIT" will be selected.
Press to select a set value, and
10
press the
• Set Value: ON/ OFF
Press , and press the
11
• "Feeding/ Take-up SW" will be selected.
Press to select a set value, and
12
press the
• Set Value: Continuance/ Temporary
Continuance:
Switching ON / OFF the winding operation when
pressing the switch each time. (Take-up unit in
operation does not stop until press again ON /
OFF switch.)
Temporary:
Do the winding operation only while holding
down the switch. (When release the switch,
winding operation is stopped.)
• If you are using the direct-connection unit, the
winding operation will be carried out with the
"TEMPORARY" setting even if you select
"CONTINUANCE".
Press the
13
end the setting.
• Set up the feeding tension bar on the feeding/take-
up unit before setting up the media. The tension
bar cannot be set after the width of the media has
been set.
• You can change the ON/OFF settings of Feeding/
Take-up unit after detecting the media width.
When turning OFF from ON
Feeding/take-up unit does not operate.
When turning ON from OFF
If torque limiter is attached, only take-up
operation without using tension bar is
performed.
If direct-connection unit is attached, take-up
operation is not performed.
• If you want to change the feeding/ take-up method
while setting media, remove the set media and
carry out the operations from step 1 again.
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key several times to