MT-FP4060-UV: Microtec Technology Co., LTD
MT-FP4060-UV: Microtec Technology Co., LTD
MT-FP4060-UV
Direct Printing Machine Manual
Model UV4060
Fast installation and configuration maintenance
instructions
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Cleaning button
Waste Tank
Printer Bridge UP
Power
Power Indicator
Printer Bridge Down
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Cartridge
Printing Bridge
Encoder Strip
UV LED
Printing Table
Ground connection
sign and machine
serial number
Power Cable
Back-side appearance of printer
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Machine Brand Name MT-FP4060-UV (The short name: 4060-UV Direct Printer)
Interface USB2.0
Environment 20 ~ 28 ℃ HR40-60%
Materials to Print Metal, Plastics, Glass, Wood, Ceramics, Acrylic, Leather, etc
Please remove the print head holder from the left and right side of the printer
If the machine will not be used for over 30 days, the print heads are suggested to disassemble and make a cleaning,
and then keep well
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Before printing, please adjust the print gap between print head and print object to be 1-2mm, and then start
printing. Be cautious, if the print head is lower than print object surface, the print head will get scratched or
clashed.
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Reflective materials, like stainless steel, mirror, etc are not allowed to print, Because their reflective surface will
reflect UV light onto print head nozzles and get nozzles clogged by UV ink.
Holder for platform(to remove them from the left and right side of the printer body before using)
Please put the red fixed plated removed before using the machine
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Carriage
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Carriage
Head board(inside)
(inside)
Head cables
Dampers
Print Head
Carriage Assembly
Head cables
Head Board
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Encoder Strip
Raster Encoder
Cap top
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When placing the print head, always keep the nozzle side downward.
When make the print head cleaning manually with syringe, please don’t make with too much strength in case to
cause damage to print head. Every print head has 1140 nozzles, which are divided into 8 rows, every row has 180
nozzles. So DX5 has the features like high accuracy and fast speed.
When cleaning the nozzle surface, cotton bud or soft clean cloth is suggested to use.
Don’t scratch the nozzle surface with hard thing.
Don’t drop the print head from high.
Don’t disassemble the print head without any instructions.
Print Head
1.2.2.2The easiest way to check the print head condition is to make a nozzle check on machine. Color ink can be
printed on white blank paper, but white ink needs black paper to print on, then you can check the nozzle check patterns.
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Testing strips
1.2.3 Damper
Damper is the part to connect print head with ink supply and stock the ink temporarily for print head. Damper must be
kept sealed when machine is working.
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Encoder strip
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Raster Encoder
Encoder strip
ink stack
Wiper Blade
Ink pumper
Wiper Blade
sensor
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Wiper blade
Normally the seal rubber of cap top will properly seals with print head nozzles surface, after the carriage assembly is
back to home position and locked. The seal between cap top and print head is to ensure the smooth ink suction of all
nozzles and is also important for printing.
。
Cushioning material
Seal rubber of cap top
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X-axis servo
Y-axis servo
Y-axis servo
X-axis servo motor
motor
Integrated servo
Servo motors
Sensor transfer
board
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Main Board
Cleaning Board
Power supply
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When start to print, turn the LED UV lamp switch on by press the third button from right side in machine front cover.
The exhaust fan will start sucking air. The air will be sucked in from the two lateral grooves, then goes by LED UV
lamp and come out from top, which can help to cool the LED UV lamp and prevent LED UV lamp be overheated.
LED UV Power
UV Temperature Switch
LED UV Lamp
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air out
air in
LED UV Lamp
Linear guideways
Linear guideways
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1. Press the down key to down the height of nozzle, until the infrared correlation illumination in print items then press
the stop button, nozzle will automatically rise to the height of printing required at this time.
2. The nozzle height adjustment is complete.
Function of Cleaingn button is when machine not working, just switch on the machine, no need to connect to computers,
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press the button for 3 seconds to clear nozzle, it can prevent the nozzle from clogging.(the machine need to be switched
off after press the cleaning button , moved ink carriage to the left manually, clean the nozzle and top cap with cleaning
cloth first, then move the ink carriage back to original place manually.
2.2 As shown in the picture, open the lid of the ink system, to connect correct ink color pipeline to the ink bottle hole.
(note: white ink bottle withe one connector connect to 2 ink tubes)
2.3 Open the ink -bottles as shown, poured the corresponding color ink into the ink bottle , (Note : White ink bottle with
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a stirring system , the ink must be shaking before use : color inks five minutes , the white ink 10 minutes ) below after
the ink filling is complete, open the ink on the ink bottle hole switches, push button switches to the left to open up is
down, white ink bottle without ink hole switch.
2.4 .As shown in Figure, after completed all the ink filling, capped the lid . Power on, the white ink mixing system and
Ink amount sensor would be working.
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2.5.As shown in Figure, Use a screwdriver to open the lid of the ink carriage . (Note : When doing , please careful; do
not move the ink carriage strike to the ink nozzle )
2.6 As shown in Figure, after opening the lid, in turn using the syringe to pump ink to the correct color ink dampers .
(Note : Be sure ,don’t insert syringes into the ink damper ,only to the ink damper hole is ok )
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Cleaning
Pause
Testing
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Notice: Press “left forward” to got back to below display after cleaned printer head, it can work well to print out
testing strips.
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There’s 4 options here: 1,
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2, 3, H
The fine-tuning data of Bi-direction readjustment is on the left, the offset adjustment data is on the right, pls. refer to
printed calibration chart as follows. Find out the most direct calibration data
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When the Calibration chart confirmed ,press ▼ button to enter Settings menu of Bi-direction readjustment , using ◄
And ► to change the setting, the following picture display the status of testing, To increase the number if the
direction of the + are straight, and decrese the number if the the direction of the - are straight.
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2.8.4 The driver types include 32BIT and 64BIT. Pls install the proper driver according to the specific
PC software. Before driver installation, pls get the printer powered on by turning on the power supply.
Connect the printer and PC with USB cable. Below is installation instruction for 32BIT driver. Double
click :
After double click to setup “USB Driver” , the setup options will pop up
and click “ Start” to install:
driver install
、After installation, the install options will pop up and click “ Finish”:
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、After installation of USB driver ,double click the working procedure in English version in the
folder . A same sign will appear on the lower right corner of the computer (As shown
below) after double click:
At the same time, the carriage will move rightwards to the right limit switch of the printer. Then the limit switch will
turn red and the platform will move toward to limit switch on the back. The platform stops moving when the limit
switch turns red. So the printer is get connected:
Click the right button of mouse to check the connection status of the computer and printer and the settings of the
“engineering mode”:
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④、Then 32BIT driver installation is finished. Pls click trust and allow the driver installation when there is prompt by
anti-virus and firewall reminding you the program being installed is virus:
2.8.5 64BIT driver installation instruction shown as below: Double click to open the
file folder:
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④、The option box pops up and informs to restart computer. Then click “OK”:
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⑥、Pls turn off the anti-virus software to install USB driver after restarting computer. Double
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⑦、The install options will pop up after installation and click Finish:
After installation of USB driver ,double click the working procedure in English version in the
folder , A same sign will appear on the lower right corner of the computer (As shown
below) after double click:
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At the same time, the carriage will move rightwards to the right limit switch of the printer. Then the limit switch will
turn red and the platform will move toward to limit switch on the back. The platform stops moving when the limit
switch turns red. So the printer is get connected:
Click the right button of mouse to check the connection status of the computer and printer and the settings of the
engineering mode:
⑨、Then 64BIT driver installation is finished. Pls click trust and allow the driver installation when there is prompt by
anti-virus and firewall reminding you the program being installed is virus:
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Note: Please do not change the data of the engineering mode if no special requirement.
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Installation instructions:
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Find “Choose Destination Location” dialog box, and choose Destination Folder, then click “Next”
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Above several options are necessary,another features can be selected according to different requirement. Click “Next”
Keep default selection as above steps, do not choose other option, then “Next”.
Installing status will be shown as below.
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After completion of the program will run automatically pop up" Install Manager ", please choose according to the
diagram , after the selection is complete click Done, as follows :
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Photoprint software programs need to be updated after the installation is completed : First turn off antivirus software
after restart the computer , as shown below
Go back to RIP software disc folders and find and open it.
NOTE: The update program in the process shown in Figure: need to re- start the computer again carry on to operate.
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Find the RIP software icon on desktop, and double click it. Then the software opens and comes the dialog
box “Add Setup”
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From the combo box “What is the model name of Apexjet Apexjet FlatBed, Then click “Next”
Note : If there are no options in the choice of these two options Apexjet Apexjet FlatBed,because 12-step program no
updates.
As below select “TCP/IP”, Then on the pop-up dialog box “Communication” , fill in “TCP/IP address” with “127.0.0.1”,
and click “OK”.
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2.10.3 Finally copy the necessary ICCProfiles into the folder “Apexjet”.
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Note : You can open the image via software or use the mouse to drag images directly into the
software area to be printed , the picture only in the printing area can be set up , the software
supports JPG, PNG, TIFF, AI, CDR, PSD and other image format.
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2.11.2. Double-click on the picture to be hold will appear settings printing page .
Icon: print position, size and number of settings.
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Illustration: After the print job is completed whether to “delete” or “hold” settings.
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Remark:
1, double white: to print white color 2
times
2, double varnish: to print varnish liquid 2
times
3,white(varnish)only: only to print
white(varnish)
White ink option:
None: won’t print on white ink
Substrate: to print full size of white ink to
whole “job size”
spot color: only to print white ink at
specified location( with concave-convex
touch feeling)
under color: only to print white ink under
color
fill color: to fill white color to the area
without color
Underneath: white ink under color
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Illustration: spot color white ink print settings, follow the image (Note : to set it when you want to
print spot white ink )
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Figure 1
Figure 2
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Figure 3
2). After the print head inlets and nozzles are covered with clean fabric, wrap the print head in plastic wrapper. Then
place the print head to somewhere dry and out of sunshine (Notice: The whole surface of print head nozzles needs
coverage with fabric)
Figure 4
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Figure 5
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