Correcting For Misalignment In Bidirectional Printing More Precisely; Print A Test Pattern - Roland XC-540 User Manual

Description
The bidirectional-printing mode (in which the heads perform printing during both their outbound pass and return pass)
offers the advantage of being able to shorten output times, but subtle misalignment occurs during the outbound and
return passes. The procedure to correct this and eliminate misalignment is bidirectional correction. This misalignment
varies according to the head height and the thickness of the media, so we recommend performing correction to match
the media you're using.
This setting also serves to correct for misalignment when you're performing printing followed immediately by cutting,
or when you're performing printing and cutting using crop marks. In such cases, check or adjust this setting.
P.104 "Correcting Misalignment of the Printing and Cutting Positions During Printing Followed Immediately by Cutting", P.107 "Correcting
Misalignment for Printing and Cutting When Using Crop Marks"

Correcting for Misalignment in Bidirectional Printing More Precisely

Procedure
1.

Print a test pattern.

–
MENU
ADJUST BI-DIR
—
ADJUST BI-DIR
DETAIL SETTING
˜
DETAIL SETING
TEST PRINT
2.
Read the correction values from the test pattern.
Test pattern
H6
H5
H4
H3
H2
H1
NO.4
H6
H5
H4
H3
H2
H1
NO.3
H6
H5
H4
H3
H2
H1
NO.2
H6
H5
H4
H3
H2
H1
NO.1
6-7 Correcting Misalignment for Printing or Cutting
Press .
Press .
Press .
Press .
Press .
Press to start printing.
H1
NO.1
Choose the value that pro-
duces the least misalignment.
Current correc-
tion value
Chapter 6 Feature Reference
Correction-value
scale
101