General Workflow For Improving Quality - Oce Colorado 1640 Operation Manual

General workflow for improving quality

General workflow for improving quality
Introduction
Follow the general workflow to solve quality problems and improve the output. The
preconditions are that you:
• Have performed maintenance regularly.
Perform automatic and manual maintenance with incidents, and perform periodic maintenance
once a month or when the printer requests it. For more information, see
printheads on page
• Have calibrated the media.
All media types have to be calibrated first. For more information, see
page 74.
• Are seeing a defect in a high pass mode: [High Quality], [Specialty], [Backlit], [Reliance].
General workflow to solve quality problems
You can stop at any step when the issue is solved.
Procedure
1. Print a printhead quality check chart on page 165
Start automatic maintenance on page 114
2.
Start manual maintenance on page 115
3.
4. Change the media settings on page
category in the RIP (e.g. [Media thickness]).
5. Calibrate the printhead on page 167
6. Calibrate the media on page 74
7. Calibrate the printhead carriage on page 168
8. Print a printhead quality check chart on page 165
chart on page 166
Result
In case the problem remains, use the printhead quality check chart to identify the issue and try to
solve that specific quality problem. For more information, see
page 217.
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112.
55. Check you used the correct media settings and media
to see if the problem occurs here as well.
Analyze the printhead quality check
again, and
Solve specific quality problems on
Maintain the
Calibrate the media on