User`s manual

2 Basic Operation

Do not use the [ ] key to return a portion of the material that's already been printed. The pinch rollers may

pass over the printed surface, smudging the ink.

Also, do not use the [

] and [ ] keys to feed and return unprinted portions many times. The grit rollers

may make tracks on the material, resulting in poor printing precision.

Opening the front cover while printing is in progress causes an emergency stop. This means that printing may

not be carried out correctly even if operation is resumed, due to drop-out or misalignment of the image.

To pause printing for any other reason than an emergency stop, press the [PAUSE] key.

Note pressing the [PAUSE] key to pause operation may result in differing image quality before and after the

pause. It is a good idea to avoid pausing operation while printing is in progress whenever possible.

2-5 Printing

NOTICE

If you will leave the printing head being uncapped for a long time (for example, open the front cover while

printing is made on the middle of platen), printing heads may get clogging and, in some case it results unrecov-

erable damage to the printing head.

During printing, do not touch the portion of the material that's already been discharged.

Doing so may obstruct material feed or cause the material to rub against the heads, which may result in a paper

jam or damage to the heads.

Downloading Printing Data

Printing is started when data is sent.

If the top menu isn't displayed, printing doesn't start even when

data is sent from the computer.

Conditions for starting printing

The material must be already set up (with the SETUP LED

lighted),

and the display must show the top menu.

If another menu screen is displayed, press the [SETUP] key to

go back to the top menu.

(Pressing the [SETUP] key when another menu screen is

displayed does not cancel the set-up for the material.)

W 1234 mm

NORMAL BI-DIR

Top menu

About Roland COLORCHOICE

Roland COLORCHOICE

, which is on the included Roland COLORCHOICE

CD-ROM, is a software raster image processor, or RIP. It

takes printing data such as a PostScript file received from a program, performs raster image processing on the computer, and outputs the

data to the FJ-500/400.

(Raster image processing converts images and text in a format such as PostScript to bitmap data.)

For more information about Roland COLORCHOICE

, see the Roland COLORCHOICE

User's Manual with the machine.