Media Feed Calibration This calibration allows you to calibrate the accuracy of the media feed process. You perform this calibration when loading media, or later if prints requiring very accurate length (for exam- ple, output that will be tiled) are found to be the wrong length.

To perform this procedure, it is helpful to have a magnifying glass or printer’s loupe to examine the test patterns.

◆Before performing a Media Feed calibration, print the Prime Bars and clean the ink jets to get the maximum number of jets working.

◆After performing a Media Feed calibration, run AutoSet.

1.If you will be performing this calibration with a new roll of media, advance the media to the floor, back it up to the platen, and remove the supply loop (see page 2-13).

This will remove the advance error that would be introduced by the tighter winding at the beginning of a new roll of media.

2.Press the ￿ (Menu) key from the Front Page screen on the control panel to display the menus.

3.Press the ￿ (Menu In) key display the Calibrate Printer menu.

4. Press the ￿ key to highlight Manual Calibration.

5.Press the ￿ (Menu In) key.

6.Press the ￿ (Menu In) key to select the Media Feed option.

The following prompt appears:

Press Proceed to print pattern

Press Cancel to adjust without printing

7.Press the Proceed key to print a test pattern, or Cancel to skip printing.

If you press Cancel, to go step 13.

When you press Proceed, you can choose between the fol- lowing calibrations:

◆34-Inch (900 mm) Calibration — prints two reference marks along the direction of media feed; measure the distance between the marks to determine advance accuracy.

◆12-Inch (305 mm) Calibration — same as previous cali- bration, uses less media but may be less accurate.

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Manual Calibrations