USER MANUAL

ARTEMIS 1621

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 Thank you for purchasing Artemis series Eco solvent printers!

Section 1. Body Installation

1. Precautions before installation

Caution
Do not put in the place Do not put in the place where Following the below temperature and
where exposed to direct is not smooth! humidity!
sunlight!
Use the device under the
following environment.
Operating environment:
1. 20~35°C(68~95°C)
2. 35~65%Rh
Do not put in the place Do not put in the place where Do not expose the machine in the fire
where always vibrate! exposed to direct air blow environment!
from air conditioner, etc.

2. Printer Assembly Diagram

Please assemble the printer body according to the diagram below:

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3. Choose the right place to install the device
Please find a suitable place to install the machine, make sure the space is big enough, and also pay attention
to the temperature and humidity to be suitable for the normal working of this machine.

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4. Locking/unlocking the lock on the foot.
As the picture shows below:

5. Method of moving the device

We suggest to move the printers by at least 2 peoples.

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6. Configuration and function
Front Side: as the picture below:

No. Name Function

1 Rear Heater Heating the printed image

2 Front cover Protect the other people touching the printer, and also good for looking.
3 Carriage Moves the print head from side to side.
Calibrate the printer, and the daily operation usually through this operation panel. This is the
4 Operation panel
most use parts.
5 Clamp lever It is made to go up-down the pinch roller for holding medium.
6 Take-up device To roll up the printing media.
It supports the main unit. It is provided with casters that are used to
7 Stand leg
move the device.
8 Waste ink tank Waste ink gathers in this tank.

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 The Rear side:

N Name Function
9 o cartridge
Ink Contain the ink to support printing

10 . holder
Roll Hold the media, ensure the stable media feeding!

11 Heater operation panel Provides the heater power switch and the heater status LED indicator.
12 Heater switch Control front, middle, rear heater.
13 AC inlet The power cable is connected to the AC inlet.
It turns on/off the power to the device.
14 Power switch When the power switch is turned on, the POWER indicator lights in red.

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Operation Panel Keys Introduction:

Print Eclosion, it have 4 level:off,weak,normal,strong

quality

Cancel Cancel printing work

Cleaning It’s a shortcut menu for cleaning, and this
function will run as you set in panel
Pause Pause printing work, press again will go on to
work
Function Not enabled(back up for higher function)
Base Set print origin
point
Menu Enter to the setting function.
Enter Confirm your setting( always used key)

7. Printhead & Capping Station

As the picture below, the printhead was installed in the carriage.

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wiper

Cap

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8. Ink cartridge
Before you using ink cartridge, please clean it with professional cleaning solution, insert them from left to
right, the color sequence for 1 head should be: K、C、M、Y.
While the color sequence for 2 heads should be: K1、C1、M1、Y1、K2、C2、M2、Y2

9. Prepare to use this machine

1)、The first important thing is to remove a screw beside the carriage.It’s used for fixing carriage during
transportation. Do not turn on the power if you haven’t removed it.

2）、Fix the printhead( DX5 printhead)—Very Important!!!

How to distinguish Head 1 and Head 2? (If only one head, no need to care about this point)
Please check the picture below:

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 Head 2
Head 1

First, connect the printhead and the control board:

head 1(left head) : the up side connect to J14
head 1(left head): the down side connect to J12

head 2(right head): up side connect to J15

head 2(right head): down side connect to J13
Please check the picture below:

UP

Note: Down
Do not make mistake in this section, or your heads will burn-up.
Usually, we suggest connecting one head only, then turn on the power,
if no any abnormal phenomenon, then connect to the other head.

For DX7 printer, please ask the supplier to give the detailed head cable connecting manual!
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3)、Fill the ink

First fill the ink to the ink tank

Then fill the ink to the ink damper by injector, check the picture:

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4)、Put the printing media on the device

Please follow the steps below to install the media on the machine:
A.

B.

C.

D.

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E.

F.

Section 2: Software Installation

1)、PM software
For the way how to install the PM software, please click the hyperlink below to download it:
“How to install the PM software” (please download from this site, thanks!)
After finishing the PM software installation, please connect the printer to the PC, you will see this piture:

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2)、RIP Software Installation.
Here we also provide the download for how to install the RIP software.
“RIP Software Installation Manual”
If your RIP is Maintop, please download “Install the maintop software”, if your RIP is Photoprint, please
download “Install the photoprint software”

Section 3: Printer Calibration ( Important)

As we know, eco solvent printer is high resolution printer, so we have to do the printhead physical
calibrations to guarantee it can printing the high quality pictures.

Before starting the head calibration, we have to enter to the advance mode, please go to the download the
detailed ways about “how to enter to the advance model” (Please click this link and download it)
Attn: we need the password to enter to the advance model, our password is “DI”, please input the
password by operation panel.

1. Check nozzle

Click “ check nozzle” on the operation panel, then you can check the printhead status, for example:

This proves the head status is good enough!

If you found the testing image is as the below:

Then we have to clean the head( Press “Cleaning” button, you can find weak, normal and strong
options, we usually suggest to choose “Normal” )

2. Setting Print Origin

You can press the “left”, “right” buttons to move the carriage, find the suitable origin, then click “base
point” button to fix the print origin.
You can also set the print origin in the PM software:

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Click buttons to move carriage and click button to setup print origin, and click

button to move media, you can setup any place for print origin.

Section 4: Printhead Calibration ( The calibration way of DX5 and

DX7 printer are the same! )
As we said above, please operate as follows to entry the advance mode: MENU—SYSTEM—ADVANCE
MODE,then input code:”DI”, then we can see a lot of options in adjustment.

1. Interleave check

The Interleave check is to make sure the printhead is smooth in its horizontal direction.
Please click “Interleave check” to print the test image as below:
Now we have to prepare a 40 times microscope to the check the testing result.

We only need to check the black and yellow group to see the testing quality( Because we suppose the black
as the basic color, and the yellow color is farest from black, if black and yellow can align well, then other
colors of course align well too. For example, if we see the following test image:

As we can see, the 2 yellow lines just stand at the middle of the 3 black lines, which proved to be perfect.

However, if we find this testing image:

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Now the yellow line stand at the lower position, this proved the printhead’s left side is higher, while the right
side is lower. Then we have to push the head. As the picture below:

Head 1

Suppose:
we observed Yellow
is higher in the microscope.
We know, actually it’s
lower, we should push the
screw , untill it’s OK.After
that, we have to fix head 1.
Do not change it.

Pushing(Clockwise) Pulling(Clockwise)

Head2

Suppose: we observed Yellow is

lower in the microscope .
We know, actually it’s higher, we
should turn the screw in
clockwise direction. otherwise in
counter- clockwise direction.

Screw up it when interleave

checking is OK

2. Head slant check(usually no need to adjust, you’d better not to move the screw)
This step is to check whether the printhead’s front and back side is horizontal enough. Usually there is no
need to adjust this step if the interleave check is well done.
But when we need to adjust it, please follow the following steps:

Click the Head slant check to print the testing image:

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 Good condition!

We usually check the smaller line, For example:

Let’s check the black line for example, we see that the second black line was threw to the left side
of the first black line, which proved the head’s front side is higher, while the head’s back side is
lower. If so, we have to adjust the screws on the printhead plate. To make the front and back side
stand at the same line!

3. Head Vertical Interval Check ( If your printer is 1 head printer, please ignore this step)

As we know , our 2 printheads are staggered, that means the 2 heads might be separated or overlapped.
Usually we don’t move Head 1, because we have done “interleave check”, so all we need to do is to adjust
head 2. Now let’s print the test image, choose “Head vertical interval check”, press “enter”.
Please check the picture below: triangle is head 1,and trapezoid is head 2.

Print sample:

When check it through microscope, the situation is as below:

For example: if we print a sample as follows:

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Observe it in microscope ,we can see:

You can see Y is separated , and K is overlapped . we must adjust the gap like the picture below:
So we should push Yellow and pull Black

K Y

Pulling Pushing Pulling Pushing

Our goal is make the interval between head 1 and head 2 is even, just like it was printed by 1 head. Like the
picture below：

When we adjusted it well , we must screw up head 2( please turn the screw as the arrow shows, turn it in
clockwise direction)

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4. Feed Alignment
ATTN: Before adjusting the feed/step, we have to set the media type first, before the step value is variable
for different media!!
How to choose the media type? Please check the steps below:
Click “Calibration”, then get “Step/feed”

Then you will see High Glossy Photopaper, Self adhesive vinyl, PP, and other material name. for example, if
your media is high glossy photopaper, then choose it.

After this step, we can start to print the feed alignment.

Please operate on the panel as below:

Then choose 4pass ( We choose 4 pass as the basic pass, if we finish 4 pass, then the other pass step value
will be adjusted automatically ).

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 Print:

Our destination is to make lines at 0 in one line. For example, in this picture, obviously , -1 is better than 0 ,
so we should minus a little, like 0.05 more or less. then print again, until it’s OK.

5. Horizontal Alignment

The last calibration is the Horizontal Alignment, in this step, we need to adjust Bi-direction, left and right
alignment. Please check the picture below:

ATTN: Here we must adjust Bi-Director first , choose “VSD 3” .

Below is the Bi-direction printing image, let’s check:

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All we need to do is to make lines at “0” in one line , now we can see “0” is bad , we must find the best like
“-4”, so we change the step value. If origin value was “-3”, then we can change it to “-7”.then print:

This result is what we want.

Usually if the Bi-direction alignment is well, no need to adjust left and right alignment.
Here all the calibrations were finished, we can start to print!!

Section 5. Something Need to Remind.

1. Suggested printing model:
Below is our suggested printing model for user reference.

2. Cleaning Tool Manual

Please check the details with pictures below:

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 Head

Ink Cap

Before setting the cleaning parameters, we have to adjust well the position of the ink station, which means we h
guarantee the ink cap must cover the printhead well.

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