HP Designjet L25500 Printer Series - Add New Substrate and Image Quality Troubleshooting procedures

HP Designjet L25500 printer series Add New Substrate and Image Quality Troubleshooting
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Advanced settings
There are also a number of advanced parameters available for further optimization. These should not
be changed unless you have reached this point following the “troubleshoot substrate
issues” process. Remember that you can return at any time to the defaults using the “reset to defaults”
feature in the RIP (if implemented by your RIP).
The advanced substrate settings are summarized in the table below:
Advanced substrate settings
Substrate family
Warm-up
drying
temperature
offset
Warm-up
curing
temperature
Warm-up
curing
temperature
offset
Cool-down
drying
temperature
Cool-down
drying
temperature
offset
Cool-down
curing
temperature
Cool-down
curing
temperature
offset
Minimum
drying
power
Self-Adhesive
10 95
0 80 0 95 0 0.7
Banner 10 95 0 80 0 90 0 0.7
Film
5 85
0 80 0 100 0 0.7
Fabric
5 85
0 80 0 90 0 0.7
Mesh
10 85
0 80 0 95 0 0.7
Paper-Aqueous 5 60 0 75 0 85 0 0
Paper-Solvent
10 75
0 75 0 90 0 0.7
HP Photorealistic
10 80
0 75 0 85 0 0
Synthetic Paper 5 80 0 75 0 85 0
0
The values on a green background in the table above can be modified from the RIP, but the ones on a
gray background cannot. The latter are determined by printer firmware, change depending on the print
mode, and are not user-modifiable. The values given here are the default ones for each substrate type
(family), but can be further modified in printer firmware depending on the number of passes used, whether
unidirectional or bidirectional print modes are being used, and whether low or high ink limits are being
used.
You may notice that there is no “Warm-up drying temperature” column in the table above, only a “Warm-
up drying temperature offset” column. This offset is added to the “Drying temperature” main setting (see
“Main settings” section, above), which is controlled by the RIP. This is different from the other offset values,
which are added to internal firmware values that are not controlled by the RIP.
Before starting to print, the printer must reach the value resulting from adding the “green column” offset
value with the corresponding “gray column” value. These combined values are displayed in the printer’s
front panel while the printer is preparing to start printing. Once they are achieved, the printing job specific
settings values are then displayed and used.
The meaning of these parameters is explained in the table below: