Océ Arizona 200/250/350 Gt Ink - Oce Arizona 200 GT User Manual

Océ Arizona 200/250/350 GT Ink
Océ Arizona 200/250/350 GT Ink
Introduction
The Océ Arizona 200/250/350 GT uses UV-curable inks including Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow, and Black. Due to the UV curing technology, the ink dries immediately, but can
take up to 24 hours to cure fully. In most cases, the printed material may be handled or
cut directly after printing.
These inks have very little odor, but for optimal safety some ventilation is needed. The
printer should operate in an area where a good standard of general ventilation is available
at 5 to 10 air changes per hour. Mechanical ventilation must be added where the air
changes are under 5 per hour. The minimum space/working room volume for the printer
is 69 m3 or 2430 cubic feet.
Note:
Read the section on ink safety
you handle the ink.
The printer is optimized for the specific UV-curable ink supplied by Océ Display
Graphics Systems. The ink is supplied to the printer in 2 liter collapsible bags that are
loaded into the printer by means of quick-change connectors that are bonded into the
top corner. To install on the printer, the bags are inverted and the quick connect couplers
are pushed into their corresponding female coupling. This opens up the flow path for
the ink. The bags contain tags that identifies them to the printer when they are loaded.
This allows the printer to ensure that the correct ink is loaded.
This method of ink delivery has several benefits over bottles or cartridges:
The self-collapsing bags make it easy to see how much ink remains in each bag without
having to reference the user-interface.
Virtually all the ink is successfully extracted from the bag by the printer, reducing the
otherwise costly waste of usable ink.
Ink changes are performed without mess or spills, keeping the environment around
the printer clean.
Ink changes can be performed during printing - this prevents wasted prints and lost
time.
Only qualified inks can be used. If a bag of ink with an invalid serial number, expired
use-by date, incorrect color placement in the ink bay, or if an expired tag is connected to
the printer, then the operator is alerted and an error message is displayed.
The ink delivery system provides the printheads with ink at the appropriate temperature
and pressure. Each printhead has a corresponding ink reservoir on the carriage. Pumps
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'Safety Guidelines for Ink Materials' on page 24 before