Starting Printing - Stratasys J826 User Manual

Stratasys J826 User Guide
You can monitor printer status by switching the printer interface display. To do
this, click the display toggle button on the printer interface screen.
Figure 4-4 Printer status

Starting Printing

To begin printing:
➢ On the printer interface, click the red button to switch the printer to online
When switching the printer to online mode, a message is displayed if a
maintenance activity is required to ensure optimum printing quality. (See
"Routine Maintenance Schedule" on page 4-31.) Maintenance notifications
can be disabled/enabled from the Options menu.
In the printer interface, the printer mode changes from Idle to Pre-print, as the
printer's components prepare themselves for production:
• The print block is heated.
• The UV lamps are powered and they warm up.
When printing begins, the print manager program sends a number of slices to
the printer-control application. This fills the buffer between the print manager
and the printer to ensure continuous printing. As each slice is printed as a layer
on the build tray, another slice is sent to the printer.
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mode.
The color of the button changes from red to green (see the figure on
page 4-4). If there is a job in the printing queue, it is sent to the printer.
4 Operating and Maintaining the Printer
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