Epson D88 manual

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    Tel: 01332 855 085 Fax: 01332 855 080 T echnical Support: 01332 858 333 Instruction Manual Subli-Print Epson D88 V2.0 July 2007[...]

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    CONTENTS Page 16 Section 1 Section 2 Driver Installation & Setup CorelDRA W setup Section 10 T roubleshooting General troubleshooting and tips Page 1 Installing & setting up the Epson D88 Printer Section 3 Printing Page 2-3 Installing & setting up the Xpres Subli-Print colour profile Page 3 Printing with the Xpres Subli-Print colour pro[...]

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    1 Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 5 Diagram 4 Diagram 3 Diagram 6 Diagram 7 Diagram 8 Diagram 9 Diagram 10 Diagram 1 1 Click Advanced Name it Subli-print Click 'Save' then click OK until all open boxes are closed. Installing & Setting up the Epson D88 printer Insert the Epson Stylus D88 software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. The CD will [...]

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    2 Setting up Cor elDRAW 10 onwar ds Diagram 2 Before you start this section you will need to download the Xpres Subli-Print colour profile from the Xpres website. The address is www .xpres.co.uk/technical.php Y ou can also find the profile on the Subli-Print CD supplied with the bulk feed system. This disk can also be sent out upon request. Close C[...]

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    3 3. 4. 5. Monitor : Select the ICC profile for your monitor (If you also have Adobe Photoshop on your system you can select the profile you created in Adobe Gamma). Y ou may also check out the website of your monitor manufacturer for ICC profiles for your particular monitor . If you do not have an ICC colour profile use the 'Generic Profile&a[...]

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    4 ITINER Y 1. Bottles and cartridge assem bly (pre-filled and including 2 smal l clamps for fitting to printer ho using). 2. 10ml Syringe 3. Smal l need le (only required f or re-priming, see page 7) 4. Lar ge extension 5. 4 x air filters 6. Subli-Print CD (including colour corr ection profile and i nstructions) 1 2 3 4 5 6 D88 Bulk Feed Instructio[...]

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    5 T urn on the printer and press the ‘ink’ button. When the printhead has moved to the cartridge removal position unplug the mains cable from the printer . This allows the printhea d to be manually moved. Remove any cartridges from the machine. Remove all the small bungs from the bot- tles. ( do not throw these away as you will need these for r[...]

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    6 Place the bottles to the left of the printer as shown. NEVER PLACE THE BOTTLES HIGHER T HAN THIS (If the bottles are placed higher the n the ink may siphon into the bottom of the printer .) Make sure there are no twi sts in the tubing. Feed the cartridges th rough the opening in the printhead lid. (If you have previous ly removed this lid already[...]

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    7 Plug the printer back into the mains supply and the printhead will move back and forth then perfo rm it’ s initial ink char ge. Remove the backing tape from the black clamp on the tubes and fit it to the p rinter housing as shown. During this ink charge you should see the ink flowing through the tubes near the connectors. The air you may see in[...]

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    After the ink char ge print out a nozzle check to see if all the colours are printing correctly . If they are, you are set to go. If not perform a head clean and test the nozzle check again. Y ou should see an improvem e nt on the next nozzle check. If still not perfect you can perform one or two more head cleans ( do not overdo this exercise ) unt[...]

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    Re-filling the bottles Remove the air filter and replace it with the small rubber bung (th at you did not throw away). Remove the large rubber bung. This prevents the centre cham b er filling up with ink. (6 colour set shown he re) Fill the chamber through the large opening. Replace the l ar ge rubber bung first! Then remove the small bung and repl[...]

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    Re-priming a sy stem that air has been allowed to infiltrate. If ink is allowed to fall below the reco mmended minim u m levels on the bottles it may be possible for air to get int o the tubing and ultimately into the cartridge. This will prevent the printer working (colours co mpletely missing on nozzle checks). This is completely different to the[...]

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    W or king with templa tes In this section you will learn how to open a sublimation template, import an image and use the power clip tool to fit the image to the template. For this exercise we will use the 9cm² square coaster . If you have had an installation by an Xpres engineer , you will find the templates in a folder on your desktop called &apo[...]

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    W or king with templa tes continued If your image does not fit the power clip correctly first time, right click on the image and choose 'Edit Contents' from the drop down menu (diagram 1 ). Y ou can also click on Effects > Power Clip > Edit Contents. Drag the image (you will see the image and the template on the screen) until you ha[...]

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    13 Intr oducing Cor elDRA W & its tools CorelDRA W is an extremely powerful program of which you will probably only need to use half of the tools and features of the program. In this section we will introduce you to the tools in CorelDRA W and what they do and also take you through the most common tasks you will need to complete in CorelDRA W. [...]

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    14 This is the main tool that you will use in CorelDRA W, it is used for manipulating anything onscreen in the main window and also for selecting and using any of the other tools, holding the left mouse button and dragging a box will select anything within the area that you drag over , clicking an object onscreen with a single left mouse button cli[...]

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    Common CorelDRA W tasks continued Sublimation printable's hints and tips Sizing images There are many ways to resize an object in CorelDRA W . Y ou can click and drag the selection handles around the object by using the pick tool. Property bar Y ou change the dimensions of an object proportionally by preserving its aspect ratio. Y ou can size [...]

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    Gener al tr oubleshooting and tips 16 Useful CorelDRAW tips T o ensure CorelDRA W performs at it's best, click on T ools > Options, click on 'snap to objects' and un-tick the 'snap to objects on (AL T+Z)'. Now click on the + next to 'T ext' and click on 'Quick correct'. Un-tick all five boxes. Dependi[...]