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TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Confidential
Dear Customer::
Thanks for purchase our TJ-4080 UV printers, this user manual will guide your the installation, using and maintain of
TJ/TJ White digital flatbed printer , Please make sure you had read and full understand this manual before your
installation and using. Please keep this manual well for your reference in emergency, Thanks for your cooperation again.
TJ-4080 USER MANUAL
DIGITAL FLATBED PRINTER
DIGITAL UV PRINTER

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  • Page 1 Dear Customer:: Thanks for purchase our TJ-4080 UV printers, this user manual will guide your the installation, using and maintain of TJ/TJ White digital flatbed printer , Please make sure you had read and full understand this manual before your installation and using.
  • Page 2: Chapter 1 Introduction

    TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd Index Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Customer Care ..................3 1.2 Safe Information ....................4 Chapter 2 Before Installing the Printer 2.1 Accessories Details and the Use ............... 5 2.2 Control panel ......................
  • Page 3: Customer Care

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 1 Introduction 1. 1 Customer Care Welcome, and thank you for choosing TJ flatbed Printer ! Your choices and supports are our great honor. Congratulations, you owned an all-round industrialized printer with pluralistic print mediums and wide-ranging applications at the same time.
  • Page 4 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Choosing a Right Place to Put Printer Precluding place printer in somewhere temperature and humidity are changeable. Likewise, the sun penetrating directly, strong light or heat. Strong light may influence the sensor of printer’s normally work.
  • Page 5: Front View

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Accessories Details Serial Model Name Amount Description Power Cord Connect printer and outlet Connect printer and USB Cable computer CD Driver Driver of this machine User’s Guideline of using this...
  • Page 6: Right Side

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Home position Flatbed UV controller 2.3. Right side Rotary/Flatbed motion transit Flatbed switch button Flatbed DOWN button Printer Emergency stop button power General switch Rotary device motor port 2.4. Flatbed...
  • Page 7 Position hole (4pieces*4 angle) TJ-4080 designed with 2 flatbed. The top flatbed and bottom flatbed for printing with different thickness media, it can print on 40cm thickness media. So put the both flatbed if the media thickness is small than 15cm, and take out the top flatbed if media thickness is over 35cm.
  • Page 8: Ink Tank

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Print head Cleaning Waste ink tube pump Wiper Cleaning cap 2.7. Carriage: print head cable UV lamp power cable Down print UV lamp water head cable Circulation tube Print head...
  • Page 9 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Ink level sensor cable Lack ink alarm light level sensor Ink refill hole Ink pre-dust cover inside tank Ink color mark Lack ink alarm light 2.9. Sensors:...
  • Page 10 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual X axis encoder fim sensor ( The encoder film must at the middle of the senor and without scratch the both side if the sensor!) Transparent encoder film Right motion...
  • Page 11 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Forward limit sensor Backward limit dector sensor dector Backward limit Forward limit sensor sensor 2.10. Electronic system: Mainboard: Backward Forward limit sensor limit Sender optical cable from Carriage board with RX...
  • Page 12 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Combo function port: SAF: White ink circulation pump signal cable Wiper motion signal cable UV light on/off signal cable Head cleaning pump 1 signal cable Head cleaning pump 2 signal cable...
  • Page 13: Carriage Board

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Carriage board: DC42V power port Encoder sensor port Home limit sensor 42V+ Sender optical 42V+ port from cable mainboard with RX Working status digit code RX Receiver optical cable from...
  • Page 14: Power Supply System

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Power supply system: 42V power supply box 24V power supply box 2.11. Motor: Flatbed backward/ Forward motor Carriage motor Flatbed UP/Down motor Flatbed UP switch relay Flatbed DOWN switch relay...
  • Page 15 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Rotary device motor driver Rotary device motor Rotary device / flatbed Rotary device transit relay switch 2.12. UV system: Cooling AC220V cable cooling cable water tube port lamp control power...
  • Page 16 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual controller controller power switch working temperature curing power adjust knob lamp power cable Water cooling circulation tube curing lamp (Carriage)
  • Page 17 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 3. Install Printer Please check if the four angel of the flatbed is water level as the flatbed may out of position during rough delivery, so we check first, If not, then we need to adjust the screws as following to make the flatbed with same distance between the carriage bottom at any position, it used for prevent the media scratched print head during printing later.
  • Page 18 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Place the machine after removing the package. Insert the power cord as indicated in Fig.1. Please pay attention to voltage in your own area. Make sure the ground wire is well connected to avoid the leakage of electricity.
  • Page 19 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3.2. Install the print head to the machine. 1. Power off the machine, be sure the flatbed is free without anything leave on the flatbed. 2. Connect the print head cable to the left two port of the carriage as show as the following picture.
  • Page 20 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 5. Then check if the Digit code of the carriage show Carriage board working correct status digit light 6. Power off the machine! Must power off!, or it will short the print head! 7.
  • Page 21 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Ma a n n u u a a l l 3.3. Install the ink damper to the print head. 1. Hold the ink damper with correct way, must take the ink damper by the front and back side, do not take the ink damper by the left and right side.
  • Page 22 .4. Adjust the cap station he cap statio bottom surface to suck the ink out from the ink damper and print head uring load ink and print head cleaning at the next chapter. ormaly we had adjusted the cap station already before delivery, but the position may changed during rough delivery , so e need to check first, power off the machine, then move the carriage to the right end that can not moved anymore, then heck if the print head get suround by the around cap sation rubber or not.
  • Page 23 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3.5. Install the UV system: 1. Fill 2/3 of the water to the UV controller water tank for supply the water circulation cooling system, then close the cover: 2. Connect the two water tube to the UV controller which named IN/OUT:...
  • Page 24: Install The Rip Software

    TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 4. Install the software (Must install under computer system as WIN7/VISTA/XP!) 1. Install the compat driver Open the compat runtime folder and install the compat driver named VCX86Runtime.exe Then click FINISH to finish the installation.
  • Page 25 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Install the RIP software driver first: 2. Click finish to finish the RIP driver installation 3. Install the RIP software Find out the folder named “UltraPrint” then unzip the folder and runing the file named “UltraPrint.exe” for using.
  • Page 26 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 4. Install the control system software. 1. Insert the USB key of the control system to your computer 2. running the “WellPrintExp.exe” for using...
  • Page 27 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 5. Power on machine As Frigga support print by flatbed and rotary two motion method, so different printing method use different power on way, if print by flatbed way, then the rotary device will not working, and if print by rotary device, then the flatbed will not working.
  • Page 28 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 4. Press up the printer emergency button to release the printer power: (If the carriage and flatbed get locked already that can not moved by push by hand, then no need press) 5.
  • Page 29 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 8. Software will start to detect the printer automatically, it will show REAY and “ Print connect: HIGH” when succeed 9. Printer carriage will move 1-2cm far away from the cap station then stop:...
  • Page 30 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 10. Printer power on succeed. 5.2. Power on for print by rotary device way 1. Power on the machine 2. Move the flatbed down by Press the flatbed down button:...
  • Page 31 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 4. Put the rotary device to the top of the 2 flatbed: 5. Put a rotary media at the top of the middle two running pole. Adjust X axis: Move the top rail to the top of the bottle, And then adjust the rotary device with X axis straight, Adjust Y axis: Adjust the top point with the same line of the middle of the print head.
  • Page 32 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 6. Connect the rotary device motor cable to the backside of the printer: 7. Press up the rotary device button to transit the motor motion signal to rotary device. (If the carriage and rotary device pole get locked already that can not moved by push by hand, then no need press) 8.
  • Page 33 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 10. Connect the USB key to the computer. 11. Open the control system, choose the CFG file that name“2EPSON_8H4C-ROTARY”, Then click OK to open the software. 12. Software will start to detect the printer automatically, it will show REAY and “ Print connect: HIGH” when succeed...
  • Page 34 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 13. Printer carriage will move 1-2cm far away from the cap station then stop: 14. Printer power on succeed.
  • Page 35 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 6. Fill ink. 6.1 Fill ink to the ink tank 1. Open the ink tank cover, Fill the ink to the ink tank according to the ink mark at the ink tank by the funnel, different ink fill with one new funnel.
  • Page 36 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Load ink to the ink damper Hold the both rear side of the ink damper , then connect the ink damper with the injection, pull out 5ml ink per each ink damper, then connect back to to the print head.
  • Page 37 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 6.3 Load ink to the print head. Open the control software, choose the CFG file that you want, The “1EPSON_8H4C-Flatbed.cfg” file is used for print with flatbed table. The “2EPSON_8H4C-Rotary.cfg” file is used for print with rotary device for print with mug or bottle! Connect the USB cable with printer and computer.
  • Page 38 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Power on the machine, then the printer will start self-testing and software also will start detect the printer, when the software show READY, and printer connect show:HIGH...
  • Page 39 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 5. Then open Parameters/functions/heads/load ink, Then the ink will fill to the print head by the clean pump from all ink damper. Put a white paper on the flatbed to do a nozzle check of the print head. Go to the software/TEST/head status, and if you...
  • Page 40 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 7. Printer calibration adjustment 7.1 Calibrate the X motor gear ratio: 1. Power on the machine, be sure the machine is powered by flatbed way, please refer to chapter 5.1 2.
  • Page 41 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3. Go to Maintainance/Motion setting/X-motor configuration/Move/200mm ( the number can not bigger than 400mm, as the TJ4080 max. X printing width is 400mm. 4., Then carriage will start move from home position to left for a certain distance then stop, press the REPOSITION button when carriage stop move.
  • Page 42 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 7.2 Calibrate the Y motor gear ratio: 1. Press feed button to move the flatbed to the front and wait it automatic stop: 2. Then we measure the size between the carriage and the outside of the front flatbed cover as following, then save the size, for...
  • Page 43 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 5. Then measure the size between the carriage and printer front cover again as following: 557mm 6.. So the distance that the top printer moved is 557-57=500mm, then the 1mm=? pulse flatbed motion gear ratio will changed autmatically, then we put the minus number to the software and press APPLY to save the setting.
  • Page 44 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 7.3. Calibrate the print head vertical calibration: 1. Go to control software/TEST/Vertical calibration/, to do a vertical calibration for the print head on a white paper, be sure the printed out line for each color must keep straight!
  • Page 45 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3..Then adjust the front screw as following to adjust the print head vertical: 4.. After adjust, then print the vertical check printing again, be sure the print head is vertical , if not, just do as above step again.
  • Page 46 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 7.4. Calibrate the Bi-direction calibration: 1. Put a new white paper on the flatbed, Go to control software/maintainance/Bias calibration/180dpi/slow/, then click Print. 2. Check the printing result, be sure the 0 is best squares, if 0 is not squares, just find out the number that with squares, the...
  • Page 47 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 4..Then click Print again to check if 0 is most squares, if 0 still not most squres, then need to do the step as following again. 5.. Do the calibration for 180dpi middle/fast speed as the same way.
  • Page 48 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual + (+8) 4. Then click print again to check the revised result. Be sure the 0 number is most accrossed, if not, just do as above again. 0 is most across 5.
  • Page 49 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 8.. Printing 6.1. Process the normal printing job from Photoshop: 1.. remove the background base if no need print white ink at the background, keep it as transparent base and adjust the color model by CMYK, then save as .tiff format.
  • Page 50 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 2..Choose Filter/Stylize/Find edges 2. Click Chanel,(Beside the layer option)
  • Page 51 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3. Select the color chanel that you want to make the embosed result : Press Ctrl at the computer, and one color of CMYK that you want do the embossed result. For example take Cyan for make the embossed result, just press Ctrl and click Cyan layer.
  • Page 52 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 5.. Then Press Ctrl+Delete for more than 10times to filling with black color to the alpha1layer: 6.. Right click the Alpha1 layer, choose Spot color, density 100%...
  • Page 53 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd. TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 7.. Click on all chanel switch: 8..Go back to the Layer, switch off the copy layer: 9..Save the file to local with named embossed file.png 10.File processed for embossed texture printing finished. Then printer will detect the spot color to print with white for get a...
  • Page 54 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 6.3. Process the job from UltraRIP: 1.. Open the UltraPrint RIP software/file/printer setup/HSR800/make default/check the default setting as following: 2.. Go to UltraRIP/Setup/Option/Advanced/ Choose General CMS Mode. 3.. RIP a file for print only with color ink.
  • Page 55 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual B: Click Load image symbel to load a image that processed from photoshop as above with tiff format, be sure the image is inside the square, do not make the image over the outside square line. If out of the sqaure line, it will can not be riped.
  • Page 56 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual E: Click Print icon, then choose the print resolution and icc profile that matched this resolution. Then click print:...
  • Page 57 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual F: Choose the folder to save the riped file and then start RIP: The file rip finished for printing: 4.. RIP a file for print with white ink and color ink/embossed texture result both(For print on dark media with white ink underbase) A: Go to UltraRIP/FILE/NEW to set up a new template.
  • Page 58 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual √ × C: Right click the image, to choose the output size/Width/Height, Be sure that the width is small than 40cm, and Height is small than 80cm, as theTJ4080t max. printing size is 40*80cm, the machine will get faulty if print over this size.
  • Page 59 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual E: Click Print icon, then choose the print resolution and icc profile that matched this resolution. Then click print: F: Choose the folder to save the riped file and then start RIP:...
  • Page 60 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual The file rip finished for printing: 6.4. Load media to printer 1.. Power on the machine as Chapter 5 2. Press Back to move the top printer to the front, make it automatic stop:...
  • Page 61 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 4. Do the coating at the surface of the media, then put media to the flatbed, then move the carrriage out to the media position, adjust the gap between the flatbed and media as 3~5mm...
  • Page 62 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 8.6. Printing 1.. Open the control software, be sure the printer is power on and connect with software by status connection: HIGH and READY 2.. Open the RIP that you want print from control software, set the PASS model you want to print, the more pass the more high...
  • Page 63 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 3. . Click on/off the White ink print, if the rip file is rip as 4 color ink without white, just click off white ink print, if the rip file is 5 color with CMYK+White ink, so need to click on the white ink print 4..Setup the magin as the media at the flatbed, if the X.Ymargin is 0, then it will start print from the top 0 left 0 edge.
  • Page 64 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 6. Start printing:...
  • Page 65 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Chapter 9. Maintenance 9.1. Daily job after printing 1..Move the carriage out of home position about 15cm by press TO left Fill in some head cleaning solution to the cap station, then use the injection to connect with the waste ink tube to flush out the waste ink at the cap station.
  • Page 66 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 5. Fill in some new clean solution full of cap station without leak out. 6. Power off the machine by press the general power...
  • Page 67 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual 7. Move the carriage back to the home position without move, to make the print head keep wet with the cleaning solution at the cap station. Make sure the print head is suround by the cap station without leak air.
  • Page 68 TEC Industry and Trade Co.,Ltd TJ-4080 UV Printer User Manual Please feel free to watch the installation video or contact with TJ digital support team when you need further support. Do not operation without full understanding. TEC INDUSTRY AND TRADE CO.,LTD...