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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2. SUBSTRATE LOADING AND RIP MEDIA PRESET
1. Check whether your media preset is available from your RIP’s Web site or from your substrate
vendor’s Web site. If not, you have three options:
a. Check the media preset availability in:
b. Use a RIP media preset for a substrate of the same or a similar family. For instance, if you
want to use a banner from vendor A you could start using the RIP media preset for a
banner from vendor B.
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c. Create a RIP media preset departing from a “parent” RIP media preset, whose family is the
same as or close to that of your substrate. For instance, if you want to use a self-adhesive
vinyl from vendor A, you could start using any available self-adhesive vinyl RIP media
preset and modify it according to the recommendations of the following sections.
The following table may help when selecting the right family or printer media preset:
Table 1 Substrate families
Substrate
family (or
printer
media
preset)
Description
Self-
Adhesive
Vinyl
PVC films with adhesive on one side. There can be white-finished or transparent. The
liner can be paper or plastic-based.
There are two main manufacturing processes: calendering and casting.
Also, there are varieties such as perforated vinyl to be placed on windows. For those
substrates Manual Printhead Alignment may need to be used instead of Automatic.
Example: HP Air Release Adhesive Gloss Cast Vinyl, Avery MPI3000
(calendered), Avery MPI1005 (cast), 3M IJ-380 (cast)...
Banner
Usually a polyester mesh (or fabric) covered with PVC coating. There are also
recyclable types to cover the same applications (green banners). Banners can be
frontlit or backlit.
Example: HP Durable Frontlit Scrim Banner, Ultraflex Normandy Pro,
Verseidag banners...
Film
Usually a polyester film for backlit applications, although there are other materials
such as PVC or PC. Typically translucent, although there are transparent versions.
Example: Intelicoat SBL-7 Polyester Backlit Film, ...