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DIGITAL PRINTING MACHINE

Printhead Installation Manual


ENG
Original document

Edition 1.00 / 2022

SPGPrints Austria
Preface

Preface

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Preface

Product liability
It must be understood that the liability of SPGPrints, whether due to breach of guarantee, negligence or
otherwise, is limited to the furnishing of such replacement parts, and SPGPrints will not be liable for any other
injury, loss, damage or expenses, whether direct or consequential, including but not limited to loss of use,
income or damage to material arising with the sale, installation, use of, inability to use or the repair or
replacement of products of SPGPrints.

All mentioned values are indicative.

Compliance
The system has been designed and built in accordance with the applicable EU directives. This is confirmed by
the 'CE' logo on the type plate and a copy of the 'CE Declaration of Conformity' which can be found at the end
of this manual.

NOTE
This system may only be installed, adjusted and/or started up for the first time by specialised staff
of SPGPrints. Guarantee expires if installation, adjustments and/or starting up are done without
supervision or written approval from SPGPrints personnel.

Therefore these starting points are valid:


• Follow the regulations and remarks in this manual.
• Use the system within its operating limits.
• Use the system in its original condition, changes on the system is only allowed with a written permission
of SPGPrints.

Contact Information
If you have any questions, need further details on specific matters, special adjustment or maintenance and
repair work concerning the equipment, please do not hesitate to contact your local SPGPrints organization or
following service department:

SPGPrints Austria GmbH

Address: Kufsteiner Straße 4


A - 6336 Langkampfen
Austria
Tel.: +43 (0)5372 / 6993 - 0
Fax: +43 (0)5372 / 6993 - 54
E-Mail: austria@spgprints.com
Website: www.spgprints.com

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DIGITAL PRINTING MACHINE ........................................................................................... 1


1 Overview.................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1 Printhead Overview .................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2 Printhead Parameter ................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.3 Printhead Appearance ................................................................................................................ 1-2
1.4 Printhead Appearance ................................................................................................................ 1-2
2 Printhead cleaning and installation ........................................................................ 2-1
2.1 Workflow of new printhead installation ....................................................................................... 2-1
2.2 New Printhead Cleaning ............................................................................................................. 2-2
2.3 PCB Power on, Printhead Parameter Setting, Nozzle Test Printing ........................................... 2-3
2.4 Adjust Printing Accuracy & Color Difference of Printhead .......................................................... 2-5
2.5 Print effect images or customer samples.................................................................................. 2-10
3 Basic Operation of Printing Software ..................................................................... 3-1
3.1 SPG Printer Install, Maintenance & Uninstall ............................................................................. 3-1
3.2 The Software Main Window Introduction .................................................................................... 3-2
3.3 Job Print ...................................................................................................................................... 3-3
3.3.1 Job List .................................................................................................................................... 3-3
3.3.2 Job Property............................................................................................................................ 3-4
3.3.3 Job Print Area ......................................................................................................................... 3-5
4 Operation Area .......................................................................................................... 4-1
4.1 Printing Operation ............................................................................................................................. 4-1
4.2 General Motion Control ..................................................................................................................... 4-2
5 Printhead & PCB Setting .......................................................................................... 5-1
5.1 PCB Control & Connection ................................................................................................................ 5-1
5.2 Printhead Setting ............................................................................................................................... 5-2
5.2.1 Setting Interface ............................................................................................................................ 5-2
5.2.2 Printhead Parameter Setting ......................................................................................................... 5-3
5.2.3 Dot Line Fix .................................................................................................................................... 5-4
6 Ink System Interface ................................................................................................. 6-1
7 Motion Control Interface .......................................................................................... 7-1

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1. Overview

1 Overview

1.1 Printhead Overview

Kyocera inkjet printhead has the characteristics of high printing speed, high resolution and high reliability, which
are widely used in various industrial printing scenarios. SPGPrints apply KJ4B-QA06 series printheads to scan
type textile digital printer, combined with various gray scale printing, and a variety of textile fabrics and media
requirements of inkjet printing. Single printhead printing width up to 108.25mm. SPGPrints digital printing
equipment technology and Kyocera inkjet printing head technology can be organically combined, so that the
textile digital printing machine can achieve high precision, high productivity and high quality.

1.2 Printhead Parameter

Brand Kyocera

Printhead Model Kyocera KJ4B-QA06

Resolution(dpi) 600

Nozzles Qty 2558

Max Printing Width 108.25mm

Fire frequency 30kHz

Drop size 5, 7, 12, 18pl

Dimensions(L×W×H)
200×25×57.9(mm)
(Printer Only)

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1. Overview

1.3 Printhead Appearance

Appearance of Kyocera KJ4B-QA0 is shown below:

1.4 Printhead Appearance

1 2 3

1 6-pin cable port for heat 2 8-pin cable port for power 3 Signal control cable port

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1. Overview

5 9

6
8

1. Quick seal plug 6. F-type positioning 8. V-type positioning


5. Ink outlet 7. Printhead seat 9. Ink inlet

CAUTION!
Do not perform the following operations which will damage the printhead seat!

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2. Printhead installation

2 Printhead Installation

2.1 Workflow of new printhead installation

① Take out the printhead package from the box ② Check the printhead model & serial No

③ Connect the cables and arrange it well ④ Loose the seat screws and take out the printhead

⑤ Place the printhead in the position of carriage slot, fix it with two M4x12 stainless steel screws. When
tightening the screws, push the printhead inward and tighten the positioning column to the left side. The two
screws should be tightened at same time but not one two loose, the other one is tight at that moment.

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⑥ After finish all the printhead installation, connect the printhead cable to corresponding control board ports.
⑦ Connect the ink tube connector to the corresponding color pipe.

2.2 New Printhead Cleaning

Only for newly installed printhead.


Before cleaning the head, ensure that all channels have been cleaned and there’s appropriate amount of
distilled water or deionized water in the ink tank.

2.2.1 Open ink system interface on the software, reduce the negative pressure to 20-30. Purge and clean the
printhead from the first channel to the last channel.

2.2.2 Take out the distilled or deionized water from the ink tank. If there’s special requirement for the ink and
the ink can’t mixed with distilled or deionized water, please use the corresponding ink flush to clean the ink
system and printhead. Then take out the flush from the in tank.

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2.2.3 Load the ink into ink tank as standard ink sequence or customized sequence. Use automatic ink injection
or purge function to get rid of the bubble in the printhead.

2.2.4 After finish all the printheads ink filling. Increase the negative pressure to a proper value (No ink drop
and no obvious ink suction).

2.2.5 Run printhead purge cleaning on the software. Double check the cleaning parameter and negative
pressure.

2.3 PCB Power on, Printhead Parameter Setting, Nozzle Test Printing

2.3.1 Click the icon to power on the PCB. Wait for about 20-30s,then click connection to finish the PCB
communication initialize.

2.3.2 Open the printhead parameter setting interface, enable all printheads and obtain the printheads
information (serial number, voltage, correction voltage) and save it. Obtain the temperature to check if it’s
normal or not. If any exception occurs, disconnect the PCB power supply of the board immediately.

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2.3.3 Waveform
Update the corresponding waveform to the ink. Click waveform to open waveform file and choose the one
which need to be used, double click the file to finish the update process. Setting a proper temperature to the
printhead and save.

2.3.4 Nozzle Test


Place one piece of A3 paper horizontally on the belt to print the margin offset. Set an proper print height and
click Head checkon the main menu bar to check the nozzle state. If there’s nozzle missing or nozzle skewed
happens, there should be some clog happen in the printhead, purge and clean need to be done to solve the
problem.

8 colors nozzle test Normal state

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2. Printhead installation

2.4 Adjust Printing Accuracy & Color Difference of Printhead

Accuracy adjustment process:


physical accuracy of printhead head → parallel accuracy of printhead mount plate → vertical accuracy of X-
axis beam → left and right step joint accuracy of belt → color calibration → nozzle joint position and color
difference adjustment → color calibration checking → bidirection calibration → multi-pass overlapped
accuracy detection.

2.4.1 Unselect all the printhead except the reference color, load print head align and select 1pass, left
unidirection.
If the angle lines are uneven, please calibrate the physical position.
If the lines are parallel misaligned, adjust the forward offset parameter of X axis.
After left finish, choose to print right and use the X-axis reverse offset parameter for straighten.

Only base color calibration Enlarged view of line alignment of between printheads

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2. Printhead installation

2.4.2 Set the print head align width to the maximum width. Set 5~10 copies in longitudinal direction; Paste 3-
4 pieces of A3 paper on both sides of the belt. Select 1pass, left, unidirection to observe whether the lines at
each pass overlap part is aligned or not (the first 3 passes on the printout are generally not used as a reference).
If there are misaligned lines on both sides, adjust the parallelism of the printhead installation plate according
to the actual printing situation.

2.4.3 Print unidirection of left and right as step shows, compare the overlap part in each pass and adjust x
beam align.

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2.4.4 Load light, medium, deep color bar, print one pass, unidirection, left to fun tuning the stepping value.
Make sure the joint part between each part has no obvious white or overlap (generally 2-3 pixel overlap line is
best).

2.4.5 Load color difference of printhead and print. Adjust the printhead color difference and printheads joint in
each printhead and between different printheads.

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2.4.6 Choose the rest color channel. Print ‘Print Head Align’ to adjust calibration. The calibration includes X
axis forward and reverse offset, Y axis initial nozzle parameter.

2.4.7 Select each color channel respectively, print the color difference diagram to adjust the color difference
inside the printhead, and between the nozzles and the color joint position.

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2.4.8 Select all printheads, print ‘Print Head Align’ to calibrate again.

2.4.9 Select 1Pass bidirection print to adjust the reverse correction value for bidirectional calibration.
Ensure alignment of the left and right pass lines.

2.4.10 Fine tuning bidirection value by check the 2 pass ‘Print Head Align’ quality.

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2. Printhead installation

2.5 Print effect images or customer samples

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3. Basic operation of printing software

3 Basic Operation of Printing Software

SPG printer software integrated motion control system, ink control system, printing control system.
The software has the function of adjusting printheads’ parameter, printing information record and so on. The
software interface is friendly and easy to operate. The software can match the different requirements of end
users and factories.

3.1 SPG Printer Install, Maintenance & Uninstall

Double click the SPG Printer software installation program and install it according to the installation guide. The
default software installation path is DISK D.
After the installation finish, double click the Shortcut of SPG Printer on the desktop to run the software.

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3. Basic operation of printing software

3.2 The Software Main Window Introduction

SPG Printer software main window includes the main menu bar, job list, job printing area, status display,
printhead PCB control and parameter setting, operation area and other parts in the following introduction.

1.

2
5

4 6.

NO. Part Name Function

1 Main menu Switch to the operation when needed, choose Head check

2 Job list Display job preview, management and property setting

3 Job print area Load the job and print

4 Status display Show relate information

One key cleaning, Power on/off the printhead PCB, display


5 Printhead PCB control
connection status, access to printhead parameter interface

6 Operation area Settings on motion, job printing control and related parts

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3. Basic operation of printing software

3.3 Job Print

The default job printing interface shows job list information, job preview, job management, print list, job property
check and modification.

3.3.1 Job List

In this part job can be load, delete, choose the job and add the job to job list, then right click the job. Pop-up
shows as below

No. Name Function

1 Open file Load the ripped file to software

Delete the chosen job


2 Delete the chosen job
(only delete job information but not the ripped file)

Delete all job information


3 Delete all
(only delete job information but not the ripped file)

4 Add selected Add the selected job to printing area

5 Preview Image preview of the selected job area

6 File name Job name

7 Insert selected Insert the selected job to designate spot on job list

8 Job property Open ripped file property

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3. Basic operation of printing software

3.3.2 Job Property

Left click “job property” on the menu bar to enter the interface as below:

No. Name Function


1 Job preview Display current job image preview, designated post can be cut out to print
2 Basic information Job origin information
Printing
3 Check and modify job printing information (just like pass, ink quantity)
information
Continuous printing on specified printing area, the parameter can
4 Joint mode be modified (such as horizontal length, vertical length or print copy,
printing gap and etc.)
Display size information of designated part, the size can be adjusted by modify the
5 Print area
parameter
Job feather enable or disable and scale percentage modify
(The newly added job is the same as the Settings on the main interface. If the main interface
6 Feather
is adjusted, the changes will be synchronized. It can be modified separately and will not
change with the main window setting)
Enable and modify color bar when job working, used to avoid head clog
7 Color bar (The newly added job is the same setting as the main menu window setting, it can be
modified separately)
The ink quantity of each color (unit: ml) and total ink quantity statistics are obtained
8 Ink amount
through the dot size.

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3. Basic operation of printing software

3.3.3 Job Print Area

Job print area has been divided two modes like independent mode and joint mode with job management,
information display and print function, showed as below

(1) Independent Mode


In this mode, each job enables queue print independently and there is no unified requirement for pass setting
and feather percentage setting. After one job finished, carriage returns to the moisture position and starts to
print after the next job loading complete.

(2)Joint Mode
This mode requires that the pass, resolution, horizontal width must be smaller or equal to the first job.

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3. Basic operation of printing software

No. Name Function

Delete Delete the selected job information in print area


1
selected (don’t influence origin job list and don’t delete the ripped file)

Delete all job information in print area


2 Delete all
(don’t influence origin job list and don’t delete the ripped file)

Independent
3 The mode when run queue print, please the instruction above
mode

4 Joint mode The mode when run queue print, please the instruction above

5 Job print Start printing

5.1 Current job Only print the current job

5.2 Job queue Start print all the jobs in queue

5.3 Cancel Cancel printing

6 Pass over The print process end with pass complete

7 Copy over The print process end with the whole picture complete

8 Set top Move the job to the top list

9 Move up Move the job upward

10 Move down Move the job downward

11 Job property Open job file property

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4.. Operation area

4 Operation Area

4.1 Printing Operation

No Name Function

1 Enabled Tick to enable feather

Feather percentage adjust


2 Feather A(%)
(range from 0-70%, over 50% comes with color change)

3 Feather type Choose the feather type (only one type for choose)

4 Print offset The distance between print start point to a big fixed plate

5 Print height The distance between printhead surface and the belt surface

6 Print direction Select unidirection or bidirection

7 Print startLR Select the print start direction

Pass
8 Step adjust
Adjustment on stepping direction

9 Continue Continue print after pause

10 Pause Pause print when printing

11 Stop Stop print when printing

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4.. Operation area

4.2 General Motion Control

No. Name Function

1 DryRoom Dry room active

2 BeltDry Drying the belt

3 Select Select if carriage sealed when carriage goes seal position

4 Seal Carriage search seal position

5 maintain Carriage moves to the maintenance position

6 Reset Reset the software when running error

7 ForwardY Belt move forward

8 BackwardY Belt move backward, the distance is 1 pass

9 Pressroll Lift down the roller to touch the fabric

10 Wash Run wash belt

9 Heat Run belt heat

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

5 Printhead & PCB Setting

5.1 PCB Control & Connection

The main icons are shown as below:

1 2 3 4 5

No. Name Function

1 OneKeyClean Purge and clean all color channels

2 Fire PCB power on/off

3 Connect SW & PCB connection status

4 Flash Printhead flash spray

5 Printhead Setting Printhead setting

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

5.2 Printhead Setting

5.2.1 Setting Interface

For general Settings of the print process, only color bar, spray need modified, the rest use the default Settings.

5 6 7 8

No. Name Function


5 Rev modify Bidirection calibration
6 G offset X Calibrate the print start point
The color bar used to avoid nozzle missing, related parameter can be enabled
7 Color bar
or modified (set the parameter for newly added job)
7.1 Left distance The left side distance between color bar and image
7.2 Right distance The right side distance between color bar and image
7.3 Bar width Color bar width
7.4 Bar dot Color bar ink quantity
7.5 Colorbar type 1 Color bar print position
7.6 Colorbar type 2 Color bar presentation pattern
7.7 Colorbar type 3 The way how color channel distributed
8 Wave Dither Enable or disable dither to avoid ink solidify
9.1 Flash fre The spray fire frequency (less than 30KHz)
9.2 Flash Num The spray quantity of ink
9.3 Flash Gap The interval between each spray time

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

5.2.2 Printhead Parameter Setting

Relevant parameters are defined according to the type of printhead and the physical location (set before
delivery). Installation only need to print the calibration items to check the physical location, voltage and XY
color calibration.
Note: When installing or replacing a new printhead, the voltage and unit voltage should be obtained at the first
time and saved, after that the adjustment can be continued.

10 11 12 13

No. Name Function


10 Ticked Enable printhead print
11 calibration Calibrate X axis of printhead, calibrate Y axis overlap print
12 ID configuration Corresponding printhead control PCB ID
Before adjustment, click "Obtain voltage" to read the factory voltage value and
save it. On the basis of the original voltage, adjust the overall ink
13.1 Voltage depth of the printhead by modifying the voltage value (range ±4, the minimum
adjustment value is 0.1V). After modification, click "Set voltage"
to complete adjustment
If the color difference occurs in a single printhead, it can be adjusted by
change the voltage (the minimum adjustment value is 0.1V). Before
13.2 Unit voltage adjustment, click "Obtain the interval voltage" to read the factory original
voltage value and save it. After modification, click "Set the interval voltage" to
complete adjustment
Set the printhead temperature, use the heating function of the printhead itself
to achieve a constant temperature(if the heat emitted or the external ambient
13.3 Temperature temperature exceeds the value, the heating function will stop working);Click
"Get Temperature" to view the temperature of the current nozzle when the
printhead power on with printer idle.

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

5.2.3 Dot Line Fix

This function used to deal with a small white or overlap line between two printheads, the function shows below:

No. Name Function

1 Head A Represent the first printhead when joint

2 Head B Represent the second printhead when joint

3 SML Represents the corresponding droplet percentage when spray

4 Line0-7 Corresponding to 8 adjacent rows of nozzles


Corresponding to 8 adjacent jet holes

5 Color N Color channel

6 Head N-Head M The corresponding heads been adjusted

7 Enable lines Enable the nozzles numbers for use

8 clear Clear the current printhead group setting

9 save Save the current printhead group setting

10 copy Copy the current printhead group setting

11 paste Paste the last printhead group setting to current group

12 Set all Apply the current printhead group setting to all printhead group

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

Step:
(1) Ensure that the physical position of all printheads is in the optimal state, and the color difference between
printheads is basically no difference

(2) Determine the approximate number of nozzles that can be handled (it is recommended that kyocera use
at least 2 lines and Starfire use 1-2 lines for common spray heads)

(3) Set the SML values corresponding to line N-M between heads A and B to 50, and copy the current
printhead group parameters to all printhead groups

(4) Only check the reference color nozzle 1pass to print multi-level color bar diagram. Adjust the initial nozzle
value first and then adjust the SML value to be less than the white or overlap line between adjacent head
nozzles. S corresponds to 0-33% depth color, M to 34-67% depth color, and L to 68-100% depth color.

(5) TIck all color channels, and make calibration according to the reference color

(6) After completing color calibration, tick each single color channel separately to adjustment according to
step 4

(7) After all colors adjusted finish, tick all color channels and print the color calibration option again to check
the alignment accuracy

(8) Print gradient color blocks for inspection according to production mode

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5. Printhead and PCB setting

5.2.3 Information Getting

No. Name Function

1 Device ID Input main board ID

2 Version Version of the software driver

3 Switch ID ID

4 Get coder The color 1 of head 1 location on X axis

5 SerialNum Corresponding head No.

6 Get Get the information which has been needed

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6. Ink system interface

6 Ink System Interface

No. Name Function

1 Color channel icon Corresponding color channel icon

2 Channel select Enable/disable ink channel

3 Press select Select the purge channel

4 Clean select Purge and clean the heads

5 Bottle level up Liquid sensor for upside level protection

6 Bottle level down Normal signal for bottle level

7 Barrel level Warning when ink tank level low

8 Press time The positive pressure valve turn on duration

9 Clean delay The delay time during purge finish and before head clean start

10 Head clean All channel start purge and clean at same time

11 Overflow When the bottle level is over bottle upper sensor, run auto decrease ink level

Shield the ink supply stop function when system detect ink lack happen at the
12 Irrigate
first fill time.

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6. Ink system interface

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7. Motion control interface

7 Motion Control Interface

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