November 2003 © TOSHIBA TEC 4 - 1 e-STUDIO3511/4511 GENERAL OPERATION
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4. GENERAL OPERATION

4.1 Overview of Operation

Operation of equipment Operation during initializing, pre-running and ready
Drawer feed copying by the [START] button
Copying operation Bypass feed copying
Interrupt copying

4.2 Description of Operation

4.2.1 Warming-up
(1) Initialization
• Power ON
• IH coil ON
• Set number “1”, reproduction ratio “100%” and “Wait Warming Up” are displayed.
• Fan motors ON
• Initialization of laser optical system
- The polygonal motor rotates in low speed.
• Initialization of feeding system
- Each drawer tray goes up.
• Pre-running operation is stopped after five seconds.
• Cleaning of transfer belt
- Main motor is turned ON.
• Initialization of revolver motor
- Detects home position.
- Rotates the developer unit to the waiting position and stops rotating.
(- Performs image quality control.)*1
• Initialization of scanning system
- The carriage moves to the home position.
- The carriage moves to the peak detection position.
- The exposure lamp is turned ON.
- Peak detection (white color is detected by the shading correction plate)
- The exposure lamp is turned OFF.
• “READY (WARMING UP)” is displayed.
(2) Pre-running operation
Pre-running operation is started when the temperature of the fuser belt surface reaches a certain
temperature.
• Transport motor is turned ON.
- Fuser roller rotation.
(3) When the temperature of the fuser belt surface becomes sufficient for fusing,
• “READY” is displayed.
*1: Image quality control should be performed only at change of environment or periodical
performing timing.