SC-B9580

User's Guide CMP0482-00 EN

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Copyrights and Trademarks

SC-B9580 User's 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.

Neither Seiko Epson Corporation nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by the purchaser or third parties as a result of accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product, or (excluding the U.S.) failure to strictly comply with Seiko Epson Corporation’s operating and maintenance instructions. Seiko Epson Corporation shall not be liable for any damages or problems arising from the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original Epson Products or Epson Approved Products by Seiko Epson Corporation.

Seiko Epson Corporation shall not be held liable for any damage resulting from electromagnetic interference that occurs from the use of any interface cables other than those designated as Epson Approved Products by Seiko Epson Corporation. Microsoft ® and Windows ® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Mac and OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Intel ® and Intel ® Core ™ are registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Adobe, Illustrator, and Acrobat Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. YouTube ® and the YouTube logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of YouTube, LLC.

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Contents

SC-B9580 User's Guide Contents Contents Copyrights and Trademarks Basic Operations Notes on Manuals Workflow for Correct Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Registering Media Settings to the Printer. . . . . . . . 36 Notes When Handling Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Notes on Loading Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Loading Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Make Settings for Loaded Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using the Auto Take-up Reel Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Important Points for Correct Take-up. . . . . . . . . 41 Loading into the Auto Take-up Reel Unit. . . . . . 41 Replacing the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . 41 Replacing Expended Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Replacing Media that is not Expended. . . . . . . . 42 Removing the Take-up Roll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Optimizing Media Settings (Print Adjustments). . . 47 Precautions when Making Print Adjustments. . . 47 Automatic Adjustment Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . 47 When Automatic Adjustment Cannot be Performed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Changing Settings During Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Changing the Heater's Temperature. . . . . . . . . . 50 Correcting Banding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . 50 Printable Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Left and Right Edge Positions of Media. . . . . . . 52 Printable Area and Image Print Area. . . . . . . . . 54 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Meaning of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Screenshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Manual Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Introduction Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Front Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Inside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9 Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bulk ink solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Understanding and Operating the Display. . . . . 16 Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Notes when using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Notes when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Notes on Handling Ink Supply Units. . . . . . . . . 26 Precautions When Handling and Storing Media. 26 Software Supplied. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

28 Software Supplied (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Software Supplied (Mac). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using Epson Edge Print (Windows only). . . . . . . . 31 Starting Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Acquiring and Registering EMX Files. . . . . . . . . 31 Closing Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Epson Edge Dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Starting Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Registering the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Download the EMX File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Closing Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

32 Using EPSON Software Updater (Windows). . . . . . 32 Checking Software Update Availability. . . . . . . . 32 Receiving Update Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Starting Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Closing Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Notes on the Administrator Password. . . . . . . . . . . 34 Checking the Initial Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Changing the Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Maintenance When to Perform Various Maintenance Operations. . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Components Requiring Regular Cleaning and Cleaning Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Locations of Consumables and Replacement Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Other maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 What You Will Need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Precautions Regarding Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Performing Regular Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Daily Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Cleaning the Media Cleaner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Replacing Ink Supply Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

65 Precautions When Replacing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Replacement Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Disposing of Waste Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 3

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SC-B9580 User's Guide Contents Precautions When Replacing the Waste Ink Bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Replacing the Waste Ink Bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Replacing the Head Cleaning Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Preparing and Replacement Timing. . . . . . . . . . 67 Replacement Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Replacing the Media Edge Plates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Using Cleaning Liquid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Cleaning the Capping Station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Cleaning the Suction Cap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Cleaning Around the Print Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

70 Cleaning the Flushing Pad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Cleaning the Inside Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Handling Used Consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Print Head Nozzle Check. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Types of Nozzle Checks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 How to Print a Nozzle Check Pattern. . . . . . . . . 72 Head Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Types of Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Performing Head Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Pre-maintenance when Storing in Environments Below -10˚C (14˚F). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

73 Performing Pre-maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 When Resuming Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Appendix Options and Consumable Products. . . . . . . . . . . 108 Ink Supply Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Supported Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Moving and Transporting the Printer. . . . . . . . . . 110 Moving the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 How To Use Pressure Roller Spacers. . . . . . . . . . . 120 How to install spacers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . 120 How to remove spacers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Making Parallel Adjustments for the Auto Take-up Reel Unit/Media Feeding Unit. . . . . . . . . 122 Media Settings List for Each Media Type. . . . . . . . 123 System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Epson Edge Dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Epson Edge Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Specifications Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Control Panel Menu Menu List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Details of the Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . 83 General Settings Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Media Settings Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Maintenance Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Supply Status Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Replacement Part Information Menu. . . . . . . . . 99 Printer Status Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Problem Solver When a Message is Displayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 When a Maintenance Call/Printer Error Occurs. . 102 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 You Cannot Print (Because the Printer Does Not Work). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

104 The Printer Sounds Like It Is Printing, but Nothing Prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Prints Are Not What You Expected. . . . . . 105 Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 4

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