JdBattDesignRCI
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I have a real printer specific question for the Canon Arizona 1300 series.
So I've worked at a print shop for a little over a month now and my main job is running a Canon Arizona 1360 flatbed UV printer. The printer is pretty new (installed in 2018 I think) and it must have replaced an older flatbed. I am mostly left on my own to train myself on this printer. Most of what we print on is .160" Coroplast, 1/8" PVC and 3/16" foamboard. I'm at about a 60-70 percent success rate so far with the sign prints, which is pretty abysmal. The hardest thing to figure out is the correct lamp settings, to cure the inks and avoid clouding around letters or streaking across white areas.
Now I know Canon bought out Oce a few years ago and redesigned their machines. It seems they never updated their online manuals.
The print driver we have running the UV is called Canon Production Printing. It's a very minimalist bare bones program with frustratingly limited settings to change and almost no configuration menus. The previous printer the shop had must have been an Oce flatbed and it had different software. It seems the UV lamp power settings on the old printer were on a scale of 1 to 11, 1 being the lowest and 11 being the highest power for UV curing. Well, the Arizona 1360 has only 4 options for both leading and trailing lamps: OFF, 70, 85 and 100 percent. These differing scales aren't correlating well at all. To complicate this, all the notes left behind by a previous printer operator were for the old machine. I'll list the settings they wrote down for the common materials.
This helps me very little. Three available power settings and OFF don't translate to a scale of 1 to 11.
Again, my options are OFF, 70, 85 and 100. I guess that means percent.
If the lamps are too low the ink doesn't cure and it runs and bleeds and smudges. If the lamps are too high it warps the material and causes head strikes against edges that can damage the print heads. I've cleaned up a few carriage strikes already and spent an hour or more scrubbing ink off signs.
Has any longtime UV user run into this problem? What setting do you recommend for the above materials?
The ones I figured out so far are PVC - both at 100, Foamboard - leading Off, trailing at 70, Coroplast - both at 85. I think it's annoying the shop owner that I have to ask him what settings to use every time and on every material I print on. His notes for an older machine with different controls aren't useful to me.
So I've worked at a print shop for a little over a month now and my main job is running a Canon Arizona 1360 flatbed UV printer. The printer is pretty new (installed in 2018 I think) and it must have replaced an older flatbed. I am mostly left on my own to train myself on this printer. Most of what we print on is .160" Coroplast, 1/8" PVC and 3/16" foamboard. I'm at about a 60-70 percent success rate so far with the sign prints, which is pretty abysmal. The hardest thing to figure out is the correct lamp settings, to cure the inks and avoid clouding around letters or streaking across white areas.
Now I know Canon bought out Oce a few years ago and redesigned their machines. It seems they never updated their online manuals.
The print driver we have running the UV is called Canon Production Printing. It's a very minimalist bare bones program with frustratingly limited settings to change and almost no configuration menus. The previous printer the shop had must have been an Oce flatbed and it had different software. It seems the UV lamp power settings on the old printer were on a scale of 1 to 11, 1 being the lowest and 11 being the highest power for UV curing. Well, the Arizona 1360 has only 4 options for both leading and trailing lamps: OFF, 70, 85 and 100 percent. These differing scales aren't correlating well at all. To complicate this, all the notes left behind by a previous printer operator were for the old machine. I'll list the settings they wrote down for the common materials.
| Substrate | Leading lamp power | Trailing lamp power |
| 4mm coroplast | 5 | 11 |
| 1/8" PVC | 5 | 7 |
| 3/16" Foamboard | 5 | 9 |
| 20# bond paper | 5 | 5 |
| Most vinyls | 5 | 9 |
| Magnetic | 5 | 9 |
This helps me very little. Three available power settings and OFF don't translate to a scale of 1 to 11.
Again, my options are OFF, 70, 85 and 100. I guess that means percent.
If the lamps are too low the ink doesn't cure and it runs and bleeds and smudges. If the lamps are too high it warps the material and causes head strikes against edges that can damage the print heads. I've cleaned up a few carriage strikes already and spent an hour or more scrubbing ink off signs.
Has any longtime UV user run into this problem? What setting do you recommend for the above materials?
The ones I figured out so far are PVC - both at 100, Foamboard - leading Off, trailing at 70, Coroplast - both at 85. I think it's annoying the shop owner that I have to ask him what settings to use every time and on every material I print on. His notes for an older machine with different controls aren't useful to me.
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