Evaluating The Diagnostic Stripe - Oce Arizona T220 User Manual

• After opening the carriage cover always check that the tubes exiting the
bottom of the ink reservoirs are clipped to the side of the ink reservoir,
otherwise the acceleration of the carriage may affect the performance of the
heads.
• Ensure that the Prefire Stripe Catcher is set to the correct height. Also make
sure that any sacrificial media or the aluminum hold down strips used for
bleed or for prefire stripes is at the same height or no more than 1mm
thinner than the media.

Evaluating the Diagnostic Stripe

3.5.6
The Diagnostic Stripe is an option that can be turned on in the Print Parameter menu. If
the option is turned on, then on the first swath of printing, a stripe is printed on the away
side of the image. The stripe is printed every time the gantry has stepped approximately
250mm. The stripe can yield a lot of information regarding the position and condition of
the heads.
Make sure the media is large enough to allow the stripe to print on the away
Note:
side.Otherwise the stripe may print on the table. Alternately, use a piece of
scrap media of the same thickness to print the stripe on.
Each head has a row of 128 nozzles. The outer nozzles are not fired in the image or in
the Diagnostic Stripe. Due to the nature of the head, adjacent nozzles can't be fired at the
same time. Nozzles are labeled in the following order:
Outer Nozzle A B C A B C ........... A B C A B C Outer Nozzle
1 • • • • • • • .............• • • • • • • 128
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