Epson 7000 service manual Head Alignment Menu, Head Alignment sections

EPSON Stylus Pro 7000 Revision B

1.6.6 Head Alignment Menu

The head alignment function allows you to perform the parallelism adjustment. See the illustrations and table below for details.

To perform the parallelism adjustment:

1.Load A1-size roll paper.

2.Press the SelecType button and select the Head Alignment Menu. Then press the Item button.

3.If using EPSON special media (paper thickness = 0.2~1.2mm), select “STD”. If using other media, enter the paper thickness in 0.1mm increments. (See “Detecting Paper Thickness” on page 44 if necessary.) Press Enter.

4.Select the pattern #1~12 or patterns “ALL” that you want to print. See the table below for details. Press the Enter button to print the test patterns.

5.There are twelve sections in the printout, and for each section determine which pattern is vertically aligned and enter the corresponding value (1~7). You will notice in the printout that sections six through eight are a little different than the others.

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Effective Buttons

Item = next

Enter = select

PF +/- = change

Figure 1-8. Head Alignment sections

The adjustment values for head parallelism are stored in NVRAM.

This is too far apart. In this example, #4 is the correct pattern.

Figure 1-9. Head alignment printout

Product Description SelecType Settings 46