User`s manual

T-Jet Blazer Series User’s Manual
Version 5.0 Revised September, 2008
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Printing Tips and Tricks
Preventative Maintenance
One of the most important tasks in keeping your new printer running smoothly is to keep up on the
maintenance of the machine. Although the T-Jet is “simply” an inkjet printer, the number one technical
issue is a lack of maintenance of the machine. There are three main areas of concern:
Printing on t-shirts is not the same as printing on paper. A shirt gives off much more lint which
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must be cleaned up regularly.
The amount of ink deposited on fabrics is far greater than on paper. This means all ink supply lines
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must be feeding properly as well as all excess ink must be cleaned up daily to prevent build-up.
When printing on dark shirts, you must apply a Pretreatment. This solution can settle inside the printer
and cause numerous problems, therefore we recommend you pretreat shirts as far away from the printer as
possible (i.e. in another room)
Refer to Chapter 13 - Daily, Weekly and Monthly Maintenance for complete descriptions of required
maintenance.
Export a FastARTIST Template
If you would like to setup the FastARTIST template in another graphics application, follow these steps.
The FastARTIST templates do not include any actual
art, only guides. This means that you will have to
create art (shapes) on the template page, referencing
where the guides are, which you can then export to
your desired le type. In this example, we will use
the Express Standard Template (17”x 31”).
First, select a color in the color palette for
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the background (blue in this example). Next,
select the rectangle tool and draw a box
representing the entire page.
In the properties bar, you can adjust the size of
the box to the page size of 17 x 31.
Zoom in and make sure that the box is
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properly lined up with the page edges. Do this
on all 4 sides.