Correct The Ink Drop Position For Bidirectional Printing - MIMAKI TS500-1800 Operation Manual

Correct the ink drop position for bidirectional printing

When the condition for printing (media thickness/head height/etc.) has been changed, perform the following
operation to correct the ink drop position for bidirectional (Bi) printing and obtain the proper printing result.
Example of a Drop Position correct Printed Pattern
Output
direction
1
Set a media on the machine and set a printing origin. (
2
Press the
3
Press the
4
Press the
• Multiple test patterns are printed. (The printed patterns are called
Pattern 1, Pattern 2, Pattern 3... in the order of printing.)
5
Press
1~.
• Corrected feeding rate: -40.0 to 40.0
• Check the test patterns. The position where an outward feeding
line and a return feeding line become one straight line is the
correction value.
• When the correction value in not between -40.0 and 40.0, adjust
the head gap and then perform the operations in Step 2 and later.
2-34
key in LOCAL twice.
key.
key to start pattern printing.
to correct the dot position of Pattern
The dots at the fourth position counted from the zero
position in the positive direction form a straight line.
In this case, the dot position correction value is 4.0.
P.2-5)
DROP . POS c o r r e c t
DROP . POS c o r r e c t
PR I N T
* * PR I N T I NG * *
P A T T ERN 1
=
[ EN T ]
[ EN T ]
P L E A SE WA I T
0 . 0