MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual General Power Switch USB Cable Ground connection sign and machine serial number Power Cable Back-side appearance of printer 1.1.1 Machine Installation and Relevant Parameter Machine Brand Name MT-FP6090-UV (The short name: 6090-UV Direct Printer) Interface USB2.0 Power Requirement 50/60HZ 220V(±10%) <20A Environment...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 1.1.2 Machine Use Notices Please remove the print head holder from the left and right side of the printer body(eg: below photo) Turn on the machine and use machine every day, which is suggested. If you don’t have printing job someday, please just make a nozzle check pattern and print some pictures.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual the print gap between print head and print object set to 1-2mm 1.2 Machine main parts and assemblies instruction 1.2.1 Carriage assembly Carriage assembly is the key part of print unit and the carrier of print heads. When carriage is back to home position, the carriage assembly is just above of capping pump station with cap top sealed with print head nozzles surface.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Ink tubes Head board(inside) Head cables (inside) Raster encoder cable Dampers Print Head Carriage Assembly Head cables Raster encoder cable Head Board...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Encoder Strip Raster Encoder Home position sensor for carriage assembly Cap top When carriage assembly returns to home position, the cap top will seal with print head nozzles surface...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 1.2.2 Print head 1.2.2.1 MT-6090-UV printer is assembled with Epson DX5 print head. In order to ensure the ink injection be smooth and printing be fluent continually, the print head nozzles need to be kept moist always and not clogged. Besides, don’t let the print head port gets in any water or other liquid, otherwise the print head will get burned down.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Nozzle check pattern of white Testing strips 1.2.3 Damper Damper is the part to connect print head with ink supply and stock the ink temporarily for print head. Damper must be kept sealed when machine is working. ...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 1.2.4 Encoder strip When machine is under printing, the carriage assembly moves leftwards and rightwards along a transparent strip, 1.2.4- which is called encoder strip Figure 1. The encoder strip controls the movement of carriage assembly where to move to and where to stop.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Raster Encoder Encoder strip 1.2.5 Capping System Capping system is the cleaning unit to make ink supply system runs normally and keep print head nozzles moist all the time. Before every print job, the capping pump station will make a small ink suction automatically. When to make head cleaning, besides ink automatic suction, the wiper blade will move accordingly to scrape the print head to ensure no remains to block the nozzles.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual If the wiper gets too much stained, use some cleaning liquid to clean it Wiper blade Normally the seal rubber of cap top will properly seals with print head nozzles surface, after the carriage assembly is back to home position and locked. The seal between cap top and print head is to ensure the smooth ink suction of all nozzles and is also important for printing.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual X-axis servo Electric circuit control system Y-axis servo Y-axis servo X-axis servo motor motor Integrated servo Servo motors 1.2.7 Main circuit boards We use advanced motherboard, chip does not need ink and decoder, thereby reducing the volume of machines Main board Cleaning board Sensor transfer...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Main board cables Main Board Power supply Air extractor Control panel motor Cleaning board Sensor transfer board Ink suction pump Main board cable Cleaning motor Wiper sensor Cleaning Board Left position sensor Back position sensor Front position sensor Power supply Main board cable (signal) Sensor Transfer Board...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 1.2.8 LED UV lamp and UV lamp Power Supply Control The LED UV lamp power supply control device is located inside the chassis, and connect with LED UV lamp by cable. When start to print, turn the LED UV lamp switch on by press the third button from right side in machine front cover. The exhaust fan will start sucking air.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual air out air in LED UV lamp cable Exhaust fan air in LED UV Lamp 1.2.9 X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis Mute linear Guideways Linear guideways Linear guide-ways...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 1.2.10 Auto height sensor system Automatic height sensor system can detect the height of objects, rise to the required height, makes nozzle height adjustment easier and more accurate. Steps: 1. Press the up key, make the height of the nozzle up to certain height for putting the items you need in print platform, items need to be between the 2 infrared sensors.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual press the button for 3 seconds to clear the nozzle, it can prevent the nozzle from clogging.(the machine need to be switched off after press the cleaning button , moved ink carriage to the left manually, clean the nozzle and top cap with cleaning cloth first, then move the ink carriage back to original place manually.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual the ink filling is complete, open the ink on the ink bottle hole switches, push button switches to the left to open up is down, white ink bottle without ink hole switch. 2.4 .As shown in Figure, after completed all the ink filling, capped the lid . Power on, the white ink mixing system and Ink amount sensor would be working.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.5.As shown in Figure, Use a screwdriver to open the lid of the ink carriage . (Note : When doing , please careful; do not move the ink carriage strike to the ink nozzle ) 2.6 As shown in Figure, after opening the lid, in turn using the syringe to pump ink to the correct color ink dampers . (Note : Be sure ,don’t insert syringes into the ink damper ,only to the ink damper hole is ok )
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.7 Platform Operation 2.7.1 Platform Operation Power indicator Printing Quality Cancel Emergency Cleaning Pause Testing Power Printer Bridge down Enter Origin Printer Bridge up Menu 2.7.2 Control panel setting 2.7.2.1 Origin Setting “Origin” is to set the printing start location. Any place on control panel can be set as origin.When the carriage assembly is back to home position,screen will display“H 0mm V 0mm”.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Press the "up and down" button to adjust the origin, then press the "origin" key, the origin point is reset. After origin location resetting, press on button “ENTER”, the carriage will be back to home position 2.7.2.2 Print direction setting Press on button “QUALITY”, the screen will show “UNI-DIRECTION”...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Press button “RIGHTWARD”,choose “BI-DIRECTION”,Press on button “ENTER” to save the setting 2.7.2.3 Print Eclosion Setting “Eclosion” is a print parameter to control print quality.When Eclosion is turned off, there will be probably horizontal lines created during printing.After the Eclosion is turned on, print speed will be slower ,but there will be no horizontal lines.Usually we choose“ECLOSION TYPE1”...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.7.2.4Automatic cleaning nozzle Note: Cleaning option, START: cleaning, INKFILL: power cleaning 2.7.2.5 Printing Testing strips Notice: Press “left forward” to got back to below display after cleaned printer head, it can work well to print out testing strips.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Press “PRINT” button to print out testing paper. Color ink testing from left to right: KCMY White ink testing...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.7.2.6 Bi-direction readjustment When Bi-direction is selected to make printing, Bi-direction readjustment is required in order to make an accurate printing quality for 1, 2, 3, H. Press on button “MENU” to enter menu interface Press button “downward” to find “BIDIRECTION”...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Press button “Rightward” to enter the interface of “BIDIRECTION ---TEST PRINT B” There’s 4 options here: 1, 2, 3, H Under “TEST PRINT B” press button “ENTER” to make the test printing Press the "confirm" button that can print in Bi-direction The fine-tuning data of Bi-direction readjustment is on the left, the offset adjustment data is on the right, pls.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual When the Calibration chart confirmed ,press ▼ button to enter Settings menu of Bi-direction readjustment , using ◄ And ► to change the setting, the following picture display the status of testing, To increase the number if the direction of the + are straight, and decrese the number if the the direction of the - are straight.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual computer. Copy all the documents in the disk to the hard disk of the computer (Note: Before copy, pls turn off the anti-virus software on the computer in case of destroying the documents in the disk. The documents should not put in C disk).
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual driver install 、After installation, the install options will pop up and click “ Finish”: 、After installation of USB driver ,double click the working procedure in English version in the folder . A same sign will appear on the lower right corner of the computer (As shown below) after double click:...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual At the same time, the carriage will move rightwards to the right limit switch of the printer. Then the limit switch will turn red and the platform will move toward to limit switch on the back. The platform stops moving when the limit switch turns red.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 、 Choose “Enable Test Mode” and click “ Next”: ④、The option box pops up and informs to restart computer. Then click “OK”:...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual ⑤、 Choose Exit and click Next to restart the computer: ⑥、 Pls turn off the anti-virus software to install USB driver after restarting computer. Double click , install options will pop up and then click “Start”:...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual ⑦、 The install options will pop up after installation and click Finish: ⑧、 Open the file folder after USB driver installation: After installation of USB driver ,double click the working procedure in English version in the folder , A same sign will appear on the lower right corner of the computer (As shown below) after double click: At the same time, the carriage will move rightwards to the right limit switch of the printer.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Click the right button of mouse to check the connection status of the computer and printer and the settings of the engineering mode: ⑨、Then 64BIT driver installation is finished. Pls click trust and allow the driver installation when there is prompt by anti-virus and firewall reminding you the program being installed is virus: 2.8.6 Driver Engineering Mode: 、...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Note: Please do not change the data of the engineering mode if no special requirement. ④、Click the User Mode, then enter the User Mode. 2.9 Photoprint Printer Control Software Installation 2.9.1、Preparation before installation computer hardware and software configuration recommend: hardware:...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual (2) double click to open folder“Software”: Installation instructions: 1、To install Photoprint software, to open , to choose language 2.Then, next step: Select “I accept the terms of the license agreement”, then “Next”...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Find “Choose Destination Location” dialog box, and choose Destination Folder, then click “Next” Above several options are necessary,another features can be selected according to different requirement. Click “Next”...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Keep default selection as above steps, do not choose other option, then “Next”. Installing status will be shown as below.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual When the program to run the installation is complete , as shown below: After completion of the program will run automatically pop up" Install Manager ", please choose according to the diagram , after the selection is complete click Done, as follows :...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual From the next dialog box “Install Manger”, click “OK”. Then installing continues, click “OK”.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Click “Finished” on next dialog box, as shown:. Photoprint software programs need to be updated after the installation is completed : First turn off antivirus software after restart the computer , as shown below Go back to RIP software disc folders and find and open it.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Find the RIP software icon on desktop, and double click it. Then the software opens and comes the dialog box “Add Setup”...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual From the combo box “What is the model name of Apexjet Apexjet FlatBed, Then click “Next” Note : If there are no options in the choice of these two options Apexjet Apexjet FlatBed,because 12-step program no updates. As below select “TCP/IP”, Then on the pop-up dialog box “Communication”...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual From left to right please check button function: Wizard: Set Print Wizard Job: Add a new job RIP: View job records Send: send the newly added jobs Estimate: not in use Nest: multiple sheets of different sizes simultaneously print map Unnest: not in use Abort: Abort ongoing operations Delete: Delete the job...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.10.2 .: Double-click to open the ICC folder shown: Apexjet 2.10.3 Finally copy the necessary ICCProfiles into the folder “ ”. 2.10.4 Here to all the installations are finished.
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.11 Software Operation Introduction 2.11.1 Software notices Note : You can open the image via software or use the mouse to drag images directly into the software area to be printed , the picture only in the printing area can be set up , the software supports JPG, PNG, TIFF, AI, CDR, PSD and other image format.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 2.11.2. Double-click on the picture to be hold will appear settings printing page . Icon: print position, size and number of settings. Platform horizontal printing area :60cm Platform Vertical printing area: 40cm Image printing size settings area Image printing position settings area Image print quantity settings area...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Illustration: After the print job is completed whether to “delete” or “hold” settings. After printing to save image or not Priority: in default, “high”...
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual ICC profile settings To select ICC profile Illustration: print white ink and color ink option Remark: 1, double white: to print white color 2 times 2, double varnish: to print varnish liquid 2 times 3,white(varnish)only: only print white(varnish) White ink option: None: won’t print on white ink...
MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Illustration: spot color white ink print settings, follow the image (Note : to set it when you want to print spot white ink ) PART THREE: MAINTENANCE ※ After work each day, press “testing”button to print testing strip to check the nozzle work well or not. After work each day , to wipe the cap top with clean cloth.
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual 3.1 Printer head maintenance 1.After disassembly and cleaning the print head, put it on some plastic wrapper, and cover the print head inlets and nozzles with clean cloth, which could be dipped with a little cleaner liquid. (Notice: Don’t get the cloth dipped with too much cleaner liquid, in case that over abundant liquid flows into the cable ports of print head)
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MT-FP4060-UV Operating Manual Figure 3 2). After the print head inlets and nozzles are covered with clean fabric, wrap the print head in plastic wrapper. Then place the print head to somewhere dry and out of sunshine (Notice: The whole surface of print head nozzles needs coverage with fabric, Put to the nozzle after complete in dry dark place) Figure 4...
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