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Preface
Preface
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1 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.
Brand Kyocera
Resolution(dpi) 600
Dimensions(L×W×H)
200×25×57.9(mm)
(Printer Only)
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1 6-pin cable port for heat 2 8-pin cable port for power 3 Signal control cable port
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CAUTION!
Do not perform the following operations which will damage the printhead seat!
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2 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.
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.
2.2.1 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.
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.
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.
2.4.1 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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1 Main menu Switch to the operation when needed, choose Head check
6 Operation area Settings on motion, job printing control and related parts
The default job printing interface shows job list information, job preview, job management, print list, job property
check and modification.
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
7 Insert selected Insert the selected job to designate spot on job list
Left click “job property” on the menu bar to enter the interface as below:
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
(2)Joint Mode
This mode requires that the pass, resolution, horizontal width must be smaller or equal to the first job.
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
7 Copy over The print process end with the whole picture complete
4 Operation Area
No Name Function
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
Pass
8 Step adjust
Adjustment on stepping direction
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For general Settings of the print process, only color bar, spray need modified, the rest use the default Settings.
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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.
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This function used to deal with a small white or overlap line between two printheads, the function shows below:
12 Set all Apply the current printhead group setting to all printhead group
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
3 Switch ID ID
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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