How To Calibrate And Clean UV Printer Printhead

Every UV printer requires regular maintenance and care. If negligent maintenance, then it is likely to lead to nozzle infarction or other problems occur. As one of the central components of UV printers, changing a nozzle can easily be thousands of dollars. Therefore, good printhead maintenance and maintenance on the production of connectivity and improve economic efficiency is essential.

Some maintenance, such as cleaning and calibration of the printhead, is able to UV printers through the built-in procedures to easily complete.

If the printed image has streaks or lighter colors, this indicates that the printhead has a blockage phenomenon. To make the printhead back to normal work, you need to carry out a self-test or cleaning of the printhead. Both of these processes require the consumption of ink. Therefore, unless necessary, it is not recommended that you use these two functions.

Maintenance procedures for UV printer printheads are usually built into the printer driver or can be found by accessing the printer options on your computer. It is important to note that once the printer begins to perform maintenance procedures, please wait patiently for the entire process to complete before proceeding with other items. Otherwise, it will harm the UV printer.

UV printer printhead check when the output color becomes light or a certain color can not be output, you need to check whether the printhead can be in normal operation.

First, use the UV printer to play a ribbon out to see if a color ribbon is not intact. If so, it is marked corresponding to the color of the ink cartridge congestion. When the color is lighter, this clarifies that the nozzle blockage occurred.

So how to clean the UV printer nozzle it

If the printhead self-test indicates the need to clean the printhead, or the entire printhead complete obstruction (can not print), you need to clean the printhead. Cleaning the printhead can wash out the blockage in the printhead. If the printhead infarction serious, continuous cleaning, but continuous cleaning can not be more than three times, and each cleaning distance time to be in about 15 minutes.

Generally speaking, the printer on the market today as long as a nozzle automatic cleaning form. If the automatic cleaning can not wash through the nozzle, then you need to do manual cleaning.

UV printer print head calibration

If the printed lines and colors are out of balance, or there are streaks, this indicates the need to calibrate the print head. The printer has a special built-in program to stop the calibration of the print head. For newly installed printheads, perform this operation to stop accurate calibration of the printhead.

If cleaning and adjustment can not deal with the problem, you can promptly contact the consumer manufacturers. Professional manufacturers can be the first time to determine the fault, the proposed plan to deal with. As long as the problem is not too big, customers are able to deal with their own under the guidance of engineers.