Maintaining The Printer; Routine Maintenance Schedule - Stratasys Objet500 User Manual

Objet500 User Guide
Maintaining the Printer
Performing routine maintenance tasks is essential for getting satisfactory results
from your printer. Perform the tasks at specified intervals.
Routine Maintenance Schedule
Frequency
Before printing
Before / after printing
Before / after printing
Daily
Weekly
Weekly—when printing with
Biocompatible materials
Weekly
Weekly
Every 300 hours of printing (A
reminder message appears.)
Every 300 hours of printing (A
reminder message appears.)
Monthly, and after replacing print
heads
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Task
Clean the UV lamp lenses.
Check the UV lamp overheating indicator.
Clean the print heads and the roller surface.
Clean and inspect the wiper.
Perform the Pattern test.
Calibrate the UV intensity.
Restart the printer computer and the
server computer.
Clean the roller waste collector.
Calibrate the UV intensity.
Optimize the print heads.
Check the alignment of the print heads.
6 Operating and Maintaining the Printer
For More
Information
See "Cleaning the
Print Heads and the
Roller" on page 6-
29.
See "UV Lamp
Check " on page 6-
29.
See "Cleaning the
Print Heads and
the Roller" on
page 6-29.
See "Cleaning and
Replacing the
Wiper" on page 6-
32.
See "Pattern Test"
on page 6-35.
See "Testing and
Calibrating the
UV Lamps" on
page 6-65.
See "Cleaning the
Roller Waste
Collector and
Inspecting the
Roller Scraper" on
page 6-37.
See "Testing and
Calibrating the
UV Lamps" on
page 6-65.
See "Optimizing
(Calibrating) Print
Heads" on page 6-
47.
See "Aligning the
Print Heads" on
page 6-43.
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