Epson L-6034VW (EN)

Operation Guide CMP0133-07 EN Original

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Copyrights and Trademarks

Epson L-6034VW Operation Guide Copyrights and Trademarks Copyrights and Trademarks No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Seiko Epson Corporation. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this Epson printer. Epson is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers.

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Epson L-6034VW Operation Guide Contents Contents Copyrights and Trademarks Summary of the Maintenance Screen. . . . . . . . . 92 Check Print Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Head Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Summary of the Press Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Detailed Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Periodic Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Preset Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 For Printing/For Reverse Feeding Screen. . . . . 104 Creating and Editing Preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Exporting and Importing Presets. . . . . . . . . . .

116 Creating and Editing Print Info.. . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Exporting and Importing Print Info.. . . . . . . . 119 Job Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Waiting/Pause/Printed Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Print Settings/Reprint Settings Screens. . . . . . . 122 Substrate Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Change settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Introduction System Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Press Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 External Image from the Front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 External Image from the Rear. . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . 9 Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Corona treater control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pilot lamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Meaning of Symbols and Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 General Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Notes on Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 General Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Handling the Substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Processing Waste Fluid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23 Regarding the Uninterruptible Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Various Print Settings Substrate Reverse Feeding Function. . . . . . . . . . . 127 Adjusting the Print Position when Using Eye Marks with the Substrate Reverse Feeding Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Adjusting Using Print Data with Ruled Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Adjusting the Print Position Using a Ruler. . . . 132 Printing Over the Printed Substrate Base (Additional Printing). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Positioning the Eye Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. 134 Settings and printing method for additional printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Settings when the Eye Mark Offset Exceeds 500 mm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Reverse White Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Replacing the Substrate and Performing Reverse White Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Performing Reverse Feed of the Substrate and Performing Reverse White Printing. . . . . . . . . 144 2-Sided Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Necessary settings and procedures for surface printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

149 Necessary settings and procedures for rear surface printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Group Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Example of using group printing. . . . . . . . . . . 154 Group Printing Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Preparing to Print and Printing Printing from Start to Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Starting up the Press and Startup Inspection. . . . . . 26 Loading the Substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Substrate Path Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Loading Procedure for the Substrate. . . . . . . . .

33 Eye mark detection and sensor sensitivity settings during additional printing. . . . . . . . . . . 55 Preparing to Wind the Substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Removing Wound up Substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Preparing to Wind up the Substrate. . . . . . . . . . 65 Basic Printing Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Creating Print Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Start Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Pausing Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Canceling a Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Daily Maintenance and Shutting Down the Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Touch Panel Basic Operations Screen Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Setting Item List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Operation Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 3

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Epson L-6034VW Operation Guide Contents Group Printing Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Notes on Performing Group Printing. . . . . . . . 158 Head Stitch Density Adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Making adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Using Gloss Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Using this Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Auto Gloss Control is Selected in the Preset. . . 163 Spot color for Dv ink created in Adobe Illustrator and so on (spot gloss control). . . . . . 165 Using Banner Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Creating Print Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

167 Printing procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Mode for Data Processing Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Mode for Data Processing Only Workflow. . . . 169 Set operations when job received. . . . . . . . . . . 169 Start mode for data processing only. . . . . . . . . 170 Process data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Finish mode for data processing only. . . . . . . . 172 Starting the Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Daily Report Transmission Function. . . . . . . . . . 175 Daily Report Transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

175 Daily Report Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Workflow for Variable Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Performing efficient substrate replacement. . . . . . 178 Continuing Printing Jobs from the Previous Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Finishing Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 When starting (normal printing). . . . . . . . . . . 182 When starting (additional printing). . . . . . . . . 186 Stopping Press Operations in an Emergency. . . . . 218 Shutting Down the Press in an Emergency. . . . 218 After making an emergency stop. . . . . . . . . . .

219 When Stopped due to Foreign Substances being Detected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Position and Detection Errors for the Foreign Substance Detection Roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Solutions After Stopping Due to an Error. . . . . 222 When Problems Cannot be Resolved. . . . . . . . . . 227 FAQ Frequently Asked Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 When do I need to re-process images for print data?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 When do I need to change the tension settings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

229 The print position shifts when replacing with the same type of substrate during a print job. . . 230 "Manually specify the last eye mark" is displayed when you resume printing after pausing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Can I stop the press from entering head maintenance mode during printing?. . . . . . . . . 232 Is there any way to suppress the ink odor?. . . . 233 Concerned about small text and distortion of thin lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Stripes may appear in the print outs when using film substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Printing may stop automatically. . . . . . . . . . . .

234 Substrate becomes discolored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 How can I reduce waste?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Print quality declines due to ink distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 When using white gradation, you cannot print correctly on parts that overlap with color sections.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Eye mark pitch (interval) when printing on single-ply films. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 How do I print label designs with a pitch (interval) of less than 30 mm?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 When Telescoping Occurs in the Substrate. . . .

238 When performing additional printing, the print position gradually shifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Banding occurs when using Wh ink or Dv ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Blurred characters or bar codes are noticeable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Gaps or boundary lines of another color appear between an object and its background. . . . . . . 243 Mixing and Replacing Ink Cartridges Notes on handling ink cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Notes when Storing White Ink Cartridges. . . . . . . 191 Status of the Ink Cartridge Arrangement and Lamps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . 193 Mixing Ink Cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Replacing Ink Cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Troubleshooting When an Error is Displayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Error Alarm and Pilot Lamps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Error Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Cannot Clear a Displayed Error. . . . . . . . . . . . 202 When Removing and Re-loading Substrate. . . . . . 204 Removing the substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Loading the Substrate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 4

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