HP Latex 360 Wallcovering Printing Tips and Tricks

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    /Severity: Medium Support Area: Wallcovering applications with Latex Confidentiality: Public Wallcovering Printing Tips and Tricks SCOPE OF THIS DOCUMENT This document is designed to help you to successfully print wallcovering products with the following HP Latex printers: • HP Latex 310/330/360
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    Contents Scope Of This Document ...1 1 TIPS FOR PRINTING WALLCOVERINGS WITH HP LATEX 300 Series PRINTERS 3 1.1 Application Process and Control Variables 3 2 Spindle 7 3.3 Skew Acceptance ...7 3.4 Counterweight Kit for take-up reel 8 4 PRINTER CALIBRATIONS AND SETTINGS 9 4.1 Printer Firmware
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    300 SERIES PRINTERS 1.1 APPLICATION PROCESS AND CONTROL VARIABLES In order to ensure a proper workflow when printing wallcoverings with the HP Latex 300 Printer series, users should follow the following process. Each of these steps is described in detail in this document. LFP Customer Assurance
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    any width for your image. 1. Create tiles for your file. 2. Set the tiling option for all the jobs, go to Configure Printer. LFP Customer Assurance 4 HP
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    jobs. Rotate the tiles The diagrams below show the appearance of the two printed tiles, with the color shift greatly exaggerated to better illustrate the problem. 1 2 Solution: Rotate the tiles so you do not see the color difference anymore. 1 3 5 4 2 LFP Customer Assurance
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    . Print Spit bars Use Spit bars at the sides of each tile. They help with startup problems by preparing the printheads for printing a job. It should be noted that the Spit bars available within some RIP applications width of the spit bars is 3.5 cm (approximately 1.4"). LFP Customer Assurance 6 HP
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    curing process and allows for higher printing speeds. NOTE: The 76 mm (3 in) diameter spindle is supplied with the HP Latex 360 printer and is available as an accessory for the HP Latex 330 printer. 3.3 SKEW ACCEPTANCE During the substrate loading process, the available values for skew acceptance
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    of the Counterweight Kit can reduce the length deformation to 1 mm per meter. Other applications and substrates will work better without this Service Kit (e.g. Banners, textiles ...). Please contact your reseller in order to purchase this kit. Kit reference: B4H70-67145 Dancer Counterweight 64 SERV
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    CONSIDERATIONS Please ensure your HP Latex 300 Series printer (310/330/360/370) always has the latest firmware version. You can download the latest firmware from HP's Web site or from the HP Latex 300 Series printer's control panel: • Web Go to: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/drivers.html . Find your
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    profile you have cloned. 4.2 CALIBRATIONS Color consistency with HP Latex printer is very accurate for jobs printed across several printheads that are currently installed in your printer, and to determine whether any printheads are experiencing clogging or other problems. How to print the printhead
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    or if you are experiencing problems with color accuracy or grain; you might need to align the printheads. To request printhead alignment from the front panel , the process consists of the following steps. Color calibration for the HP Latex 360 and 370 printers 1. Ensure that the take-up reel is
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    quality maintenance > Color calibration > Calibrate. Color calibration for HP Latex 310 and 330 printers 1. Start color calibration of the loaded consistent color printing on that substrate type. 4.3 PRINTER SETTINGS Each supported substrate has its own characteristics and so the printer changes the
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    Curing is needed for the latex to coalesce, creating a polymeric accurately when using supported substrates in normal environmental to the substrate from the input spindle. It needs to be consistent over printheads. The substrate may be permanently deformed or damaged. Substrate-advance problems
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    washed-out. If selected, there can be an excess of ink and some problems related to poor drying and curing. TIP: Select High-ink level for backlit platen. Clean the sensor after using the substrate. • When you are instructed to do so by the front panel because the sensor is dirty or unable
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    5 PRINTING 5.1 GENERAL PRINTING ADVICE If you have any print-quality problems, it is important to make sure that the substrate type that you select on the front panel, you can expect the following amounts of shrinkage: • Paper: 1mm/meter. • Self-adhesive: 1mm/meter. LFP Customer Assurance 15 HP
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    To solve the tiling problem and improve the repeatability of the printed size, you are recommended to ensure that the OMAS sensor is enabled in the the details of the substrate and click Modify > Advanced settings. • Check that the option OMAS enabled is enabled. LFP Customer Assurance 16 HP
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    can be considered to remove the white space on the left and right side of each tile printed with your HP Latex 300 Series printer. These two methods can be used to yield a perfect seam between each tile. 6.1 TILE- into place and that all edges are sticking down. LFP Customer Assurance 17 HP
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    setting is suggested for the thickness of the cut marks. Set up your cut marks for Fotoba XLD170WP cutting (Caldera RIP software) From the Caldera driver controller, select the Placement tab and then the Marks tab. Enable Trimmers and then click Edit. In the new window, select Cutter tab. Select
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    cutter. Please check and set the Double mark and Single mark as follows: Press Apply in order to confirm the selections. LFP Customer Assurance 19 HP
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    disable the "Proportion" option. + 4 mm, both width and height Select the number of columns. For this example, we set four columns. LFP Customer Assurance 20 HP
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    Select all tiles except for the side ones and select an overlap of 2 mm for both the right and the left side. Select the left tile and set a right overlap of 2 mm. The left overlap is set to 0 mm. LFP Customer Assurance 21 HP
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    Select the right tile and set a left overlap of 2 mm. The right overlap is set to 0. NOTE: Every other overlap different from 2 mm must be set to 0 mm. Enable "same print size for all tiles." If requested, answer Yes in the window that appears. LFP Customer Assurance 22 HP
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    Check that all the tiles now have the same printing width. For this example, they are all 1004 mm (1000 mm + 4 mm overlap cut-out). To proceed, click Create Poster. LFP Customer Assurance 23 HP
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    then select Placement. You can adjust the printing position in the General tab. This might be different depending on your printer. LFP Customer Assurance 24 HP
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    Set up your tiles for Fotoba XLD170WP cutting (Onyx RIP software) Open a new job in the Job Editor and select enable Tiling. Now go to the Preview and Size tab and insert the desired overall wall dimension (in this case 4000 x 2250 mm). LFP Customer Assurance 25 HP
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    enable the Enable Image Bleed option. Select a 2-mm bleed for each side. For Bleed type, we suggest using the Mirror option. LFP Customer Assurance 26 HP
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    using a sloping collection table outside the cutter to prevent any problems with handling the weight of the cut material. Depending on the will, of course, create problems when cutting or applying the tile to the wall. The most effective way to eliminate or reduce this problem is to print a "fake
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Wallcovering Printing Tips and Tricks
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This document is designed to help you to successfully print wallcovering products with the following HP Latex
printers:
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HP Latex 310/330/360/370 printers
It is intended for use by customers that have received HP training on these products. This document is subject
to change as and when new information is available.
Date
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September
2016
Region
: WW
Audience
: Support
HP Latex 300 Series Printers
TECHNICAL NEWSLETTERS FROM CUSTOMER ASSURANCE
Impact/Severity
: Medium
Support Area
: Wallcovering applications with Latex
Confidentiality:
Public