Maintaining The Printer; Routine Maintenance Schedule - Stratasys Objet30 User Manual

Objet30 User Guide

Maintaining the Printer

Performing routine maintenance tasks is essential for getting satisfactory
results from your printer. Perform the tasks at specified intervals.
When switching the printer to online mode, a message is displayed if a
maintenance activity is required to ensure optimum printing quality.
Maintenance notifications can be disabled/enabled from the Options menu.

Routine Maintenance Schedule

Frequency
After every print job
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly—when printing with
Biocompatible materials
Weekly
Every 300 hours of printing (A
reminder message appears.)
Every 300 hours of printing
Monthly, and after replacing
print heads
Every 500 hours of printing, or
once every six months
Every 1000 hours of printing, or
once a year
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Task
Clean the print heads and the roller surface.
Perform the Pattern test.
Clean and inspect the wiper.
Calibrate the UV intensity.
Restart the printer computer and the
server computer.
Calibrate the UV intensity.
Optimize the print heads.
Check the alignment of the print heads.
Calibrate the load cells.
Preventive maintenance.
6 Operating and Maintaining the Printer
For More
Information
See "Cleaning the
Print Heads and
the Roller" on
page 6-34.
See "Pattern Test"
on page 6-40.
See "Cleaning and
Replacing the
Wiper" on page 6-
37.
See "Testing and
Calibrating the
UV Lamp" on
page 6-71.
See "Testing and
Calibrating the
UV Lamp" on
page 6-71.
See "Optimizing
(Calibrating) Print
Heads" on page 6-
51.
See "Aligning the
Print Heads" on
page 6-47.
See "Calibrating
the Load Cells" on
page 6-75.
See "Preventive
Maintenance
Tasks" on page 6-
108.
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