FJ DIGITAL PRINTER

Manual book

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 Contents
Foreword .................................................................................................................3

Part 1 Instruction...................................................................................................... 5

一、Power Safty.................................................................................................5

二、Operation Matters........................................................................................5

三、Printer Insatllation and working environment..............................................5

四、Ink Location................................................................................................ 6

五、Feeding and taking up................................................................................. 6

六、Printer parameters....................................................................................... 7

Part 2 Preparations before printing........................................................................... 8

一、Printer instruction........................................................................................8

二、Printer assembling ...................................................................................... 9

三、Ink supply system .....................................................................................10

四、Printhead installation ................................................................................ 11

五、Distance between printhead and media......................................................12

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 Foreword
Thank you for purchasing Nanjing Forni FJ serial color inkjet printer.This manual can quickly
help you to comprehend and operate our printer. After reading, you can solve all problems during
installation effectively.

Please search related contents you need as catalogue. As piezoelectric colored inkjet printers, FJ
serial printer have Eco solvent and water based printhead and all with high quality.

In this manual:
 We describe the operation and easy maintenance of FJ serial printers in this manual.

 Please read carefully and understand completely before use.

 Please take this manual with you if necessary.

 Although by our great description in this book, if any questions, feel free to contact

your dealer.

 The contents maybe updated any time, please subject to the latest edition.

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Description of outstanding characteristic as below:

Epson piezoelectric printing head can achieve a great effect with high quality and speed.

Adopt Epson DX5 printhead, As the latest printhead, it contains 1440 pieces nozzles (180×8), to
achieve high quality pictures.
Convenience shortcuts
Shortcut key on the LCD panel to operate functions you want.
Convenience operation
LCD operation and humanism functions can help you know well quickly.

Origin adjustment

The origin can be placed in anywhere to save paper.

Checking printing condition

Printing situation in view on the LCD board when printing.
Printhead Height(nozzle height) adjustment
2mm---5mm is available to be adjusted.

Paper Platen wheel to avoid paper wrinkling

Distinctive design to avoid paper wrinkling when feeding paper and printing.
Interface (high speed transfer)
USD2.0 interface for high-speed data transmission.
Paper Taking up system allow continuous printing (optional)
Paper taking up system can help to collect paper when printing, and even longer
paper is available.
External heating system

Fast heating paper, comply to long time printing.

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 Part 1 Instruction
一、Power safty
Note: For your security, before power on, be sure to connect the earth wire! The printer shall be
installed by qualified technicians.
A. Electrical source : Frequency 50HZ, Voltage 220V AC (± 10%)/50HZ.
Max power:350w (except external heating system)
Standby power :≤100w. Please prepare voltage regulator for the stability of power.
B. This machine accept the power which signed on the label of the printer, according to the
different countries and regions, 110V or 220V AC is available.
C. All devices are connected to a suitable grounded plug, but need to avoid the electric
going in the same circle as the machines ( copier, air conditioner) which will be turned
on/off frequently.
D. Avoid to use the plug which controlled by automatic timer or switch on the wall.
E. Be sure that your computer system will be far away from potential Electro Magnetic
Interference. Such as: loudspeaker, cordless telephone.
F. NO broken wire.
G. If you use additional power line, please pay attention to the amperage, it must be less than
the total amperage of the power.
H. Don’t try to repair it by yourself, if any question, please contact professional technician.

二、Operation matters
A. Always use the power switch to control the printer on/off, and don’t remove any plug
before cutting off the power.
B. Please don’t put any tools on the flatbed, to avoid any damage.
C. Please be sure that the printhead cart was fixed on its place before carrying.

三、Printer installation and work environment

A. Please be sure that the printer was placed on a flat ground, or it can’t work.
B. Please be sure that there is enough space for the printer to feel air.
C. Please place the printer near the socket for convenience.
D. Don’t use the printer with unstable temperature and humility. Avoid directly hot sunshine,
powerful light and heating source.
E. Best temperature: 18℃-29℃, Humility:40%-80%
It is better to have a air conditioner and Temperature Humidity Sensor to guarantee the
working best situation for the machine.
F. Be sure that your computer system will be far away from potential Electro Magnetic Interference.
H.We suggest prepare UPS and power regulator.(≥3000w)

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四、 Ink location
A. Please be sure that the ink is far away from children to avoid hurting.
B. Please clean with soap and water if against the skin and eyes.
C. Don’t shake the ink bottle.
D. Don’t mix with other ink.
E. Ink should be place in a cool place.
F. Please use the special ink supplied by the factory.
五、Torsion adjustment(paper feeding and taking up)
A. Clockwise: torsion increased ( comply to heavy and thick paper,such as Tarpaulin..).
B. Counterclockwise: torsion reduced (comply to thin media or paper)

 If the torsion limiter is too weak: can’t fix paper feeding or collecting.
 If the torsion limiter is too strong: it maybe slack, so affect the printing quality.
NOTE:
1. When finish adjusting the torsion limiter, no need to change again, if change, then step data
and Bidirectional data will be changed.
2. According to the different thickness of paper, we will have different settings for the step data
and bidirectional data.

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六、Printer Parameters
Item Parameter

Model FJ serial

Printhead Printhead Epson DX5

Quantity 1 or 2

Color C、M、Y、K

Type Special ink for epson head

Ink
Ink supply Automatic

Production 15m2/h(single)---30m2/h（double）

Precision 10m2/h（single)---20m2/h（double）
Speed

High precision 7m2/h（single)---14 m2/h（double）

Drying Extra heating

Heating Temperature normal~600C，suggest40~60OC

Media size Depend on printer model

Media Media type Depend on printer model

Media transfer Automatic feeding system

Head cleaning Automatic cleaning and scrapping

Interface USB

Temperature and Temperature18OC~29OC，Humidity50~80%

humidity
Power 50HZ , AC220V

1600：Lx Wx H（mm）：2520x600x1300
Machine size
1800: Lx Wx H（mm）：2820x600x1300

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 Part 2 Preparations before printing
一、Printer Instruction
FJ serial printer: Taking up system, external heating system etc are as optional parts, please
according to printer you purchased.
Front of machine
1. Operation panel: the keys for controlling the machine, settings, etc.
2. Waste ink bottle: waste ink collecting
3. Foot stand: brace the machine and move the printer.
4. Printhead cart t: placed the printhead, and move.
5. Flatbed: working flatbed, the paper is on it.
6. Transverse bracing: to fix foot stand and machine.
7. External heating system: accelerate drying time.
8. Taking up system: collect the paper automatically.
Attention: External heating system and taking up system are optional.

Back of machine
1. Power socket and USB interface: to connect the machine and computer.
2. Feeding system: to fix paper roller.
3. Ink box: each ink box has its own color.

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二、Printer assembling
1：Take out everything from the package.
2：Install printer foot, holder, feeding system, waste ink bottle and some other optional parts.
Put the foot trestles left and right on the clean ground, and fix transverse bracing rails between
foot trestles by screw.

Diagram

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 3：Install printer body

Hold up the hosts with a forklift , placed on the trestles in correct direction , and fixed with screws
left and right sides , respectively , as the body installation shown .

Attention：Please be careful and quite when install the body.

三、Ink supply system

Warning:
1. Keep the ink out of the reach of children .
2. If the ink splashed into the eyes , clean immediately with plenty of water .
Note:
3. Please use the special cleaning liquid to clean ink pipeline.
4. Ink working environment needed: temperature at 18 degrees -28 degrees.
5. Place the ink in a cool place , stored at room temperature , avoid high and low
temperature and sunshine.
6. Please use the ink after unseal , no long-term storage .
7.If freezing at low temperatures , please re-dissolved in room temperature and place a
few hours, then use.
8.If the ink splashed to your hands or clothes , wash as soon as possible .
9. Do not try to analyze solution cartridges.
10.As a chemical product , empty ink bottle ,broken cartridges and waste ink should be
well treated to avoid pollution to the environment.
11.Please clean the ink pipeline with cleaning liquid before using.
12.Don’t move the ink sac when fulling ink, in order to reduce its loss , only use the
specified ink , please do not use ink mixed with other brand types .
13. Prevent dust from entering the ink cartridges when plus ink.

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As shown below, ink color from Left to Right are: K,C,M,Y
( If two heads, they are K,C,M,Y and K,C,M,Y)

Left

Right

四、Printhead installation
Head data line：2 pcs 31P data line
Single head ：Upper face connect to head board（J14）；
Down face line connect to head board（J12）
Double head :Double head printer will have one more slot for line.
Upper face connect to head board（J15）；
Down face line connect to head board（J13）
Show as picture

Warning: Please pay more attention on the connection,if it is wrong, it will damage the
head, any question please call engineer.

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Epson DX5 head：

Damper (from left to right)：K、K、C、C、M、M、Y、Y

五、The distance between printhead and media

According to different thickness of the paper, we can adjust the height of the printhead. The best
distance between printhead and paper is 1mm, must be less than 2.5mm. Adjustment method: Please
check the picture as below, relax the screw 1 and 2, then move the head to a suitable height, and be
sure the head is horizontal, then tighten the screw.

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六、Printhead adjustment

1. Head 1

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2. Head 2

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D), Process of adjustment

1, Print nozzel checking, check if ink jet is OK.
Menu--->Check Nozzle---->Enter

Or Menu Advance Mode----->Check Nozzle---->vsd1--->Enter. Under Advanced mode，it can print

out checking pattern on four different VSD modes, as it's 4 different VSD, the patterns are different in
shade.

If find there are incontinuity and vacancy, it illustrates there are blocks in nozzles, need to be cleaned
until ink jet to the best state, this is good for observing the printing test and improving print quality.

2, There are two aspects of the adjustment, 1) mechanical adjustment, 2) software fine adjustment.

Mechanical adjustment includes two steps: Interleave Check and Head slant Check.

1) Mechanical adjustment
According to the print head fixing organization, we can adjust the head’s position (right and left, front
and back) and adjust the head to parallel to the printing table.

Interleave Check: Menu Advanced mode----->Adjustment----->Interleave Check---->Enter

Figure

Interleave check

As shown above, we use 50~100 times magnifying glass to observe the test picture, make the black
lines as standard, check the position relation of black and other colors, the position relations between K
nozzles and other nozzles on the same line, the position relations between K nozzles and the second level
nozzles. Because K is farthest from Y relatively, if there is a mismatch, we can see obviously on K and Y,
so shall observe K and Y firstly. When K and Y both have 3 lines, K and Y lines should overlap; when K
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has 3 lines and Y has 2 lines, K and Y lines should intersect.

Head 1

Head 2

Caution: which we see under the magnifying glass is contrary to the reality. When there are 3 lines, Y
and K should overlap; C,M,Y have 2 lines, the lines should be in the middle of K lines, as shown by
“Normal”, otherwise we need adjust the physical position of the print head.
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Sometimes, the print head is bad itself, when we check the Interleave of two rows of the same color,
the printing result is bad, and the 3 lines can overlap K lines, but the other two lines are not in the middle
of K, it’s nozzle’s problem, individual phenomenon.
When the machine has two print heads, there are two testing strips, should adjust the two print heads
separately and simultaneously.
Head slant Check：Menu Advanced mode----->Adjustment--------> Head slant Check -------->Enter
After adjustment of print head’s horizontal of right and left, the front and back sides of print head may
be on different horizons, and we can use Head slant Check to check the print head situations.

Caution: the machine prints twice from right to left and twice from left to right. If the wide line is not
clear, we can observe the thin line nearby. All the lines are formed by drops and it's easy to get the result.
If the back side of the print is high and the front side is low, we can get the result like the middle image
above; otherwise we will see the result like figure3. There will be some individual phenomenon that the
printing results from two ways are the same, now we need to check if the printing lines are vertical to the
slide way, it's possible that the printing table isn't flat, then we can print test lines on other places to check
if the result is the same.
If there are lot malpositions on the overlap, it's error of Bi-Dir.
For double heads, adjust methods are similar. Generally Print head 2 prints worse than print head 1,
because it's farther from the slideway. If the print result is opposite, need to check the print head assembly
or the fixing baseboard of print head. Sometimes, because of the problem of machanical process error, it's
hard to adjust the print results of two ways to the same, and then shall assure one way is good.
Head vertical interval check: The physical adjustment is finished now for one head machine. But for
Menu Advanced mode ---->Adjustment----> Head Interval Check ----->Enter
Testing figures as follows:

Caution: The triangle on the top is printed by head 1, the trapezoid underside is printed by head 2. The
distance between the nethermost line of the triangle and the top line of trapezoid should be as same as the
distance between two lines of triangle or trapezoid. Briefly speaking, we cannot find out the boundary line
of this two shapes in spite of the right extra part, that says the position of two heads are exactly OK, don't
need adjustment.

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Generally, after Interleave Check ，Head Slant Check, the two heads are basically on the same horizon
and head 2 just need translation to close head1.

The translation of head 2 would cause the head skew on left or right. Then need Interleave Check and
re-adjust again.

2) Software fine adjustment

Software fine adjustment includes Feed，Bi-Dir，Left Alignment，Right Alignment etc.

Step Calibration:

Normal Mode：Menu--->Adjustment---->Media---->Print

This is a simple and visual adjustment which only print one row, default value is 4pass, it’s same as
1pass adjust value. Choose the best test image and add default value on its nether value, then get the
final value. Imput the value in the machine, can have up to two digits after the decimal point.
Advanced Mode：Menu--->Adjustment---->Media--->Pass Number---->Print

Under Advanced Mode, we can choose material, also can choose different pass. We should adjust the
stepping value on 4pass firstly. This value will be used on other passes. Then adjust the value on 3pass,
6pass, 8pass, etc of the same material. The stepping value of other passes is adding and reducing on base
of 4pass.
Different material has different step calibration value. While printing, we must make sure the printing
material is the default material of machine.
Please pay attention that on this mode; it will repeat printing 100times continuously. It will print 3
rows on 4pass, the first row is the print result of pass1 and pass2, the second row is the print result of
pass1 and pass3, the third row is the result of pass1 and pass4. This is a print of adding errors. If the
stepping has errors, the 3rd row’s error is the biggest. And because it’s 10 cycles’printing for a ling time,
by this adjustment, we can easily find the stepping problem and check if the feeding precision has
periodical change. It prints 5rows by 6pass, 7rows by 8pass, prints K and M while side printing, if there
are no error with print head physical position, then the stepping direction should be the same. Specially
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observe the left vertical strip, check the continuity, if the print head deflects, there are intervals in left
strips and can’t be intact color lump. You can press cancel key to cancel printing; if it’s hard to
distinguish the aligning of“0”, you can observe the left strips and right strips besides“0”, to check which
one is worse, the best printing result is on the other side. And you can print on different wide to check the
mechanical precision.
Caution: If stepping value differs a lot from the reality, you can observe the first row firstly; the
stepping value may need reduce or add a lot. The maximum change value for the machine is 50% until
“0”are aligning well. Then observe the third row’s “0”and make fine adjustment. Stepping value for one
head is half of the value for double heads.
Bi-Dir: Menu Advanced Mode--->Adjustment---->DPI (360/720) ---->VSD (1, 2, 3, 4) -----> Bi-Dir
----> Print

Observe the test printing, find the one aligning well and plus the nether value with the default value
and input the result to menu.
Please pay attention, we need to calibrate under different modes, for different dpi, different VSD and
different parameter. For 360dpi, there are 4VSD Modes, if print head support high and low height, it need
calibration separately. If no high and low function, menu shows high, please adjust the high value, shows
low, please adjust the low value.
Left Alignment：Menu Advanced Mode--->Adjustment---->DPI（360/720）---->VSD(1,2,3,4)----->
Left Alignment ---->Print

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Observe every row, the combinations of different colors, plus the best one’s value with the default
value, and input the result to the menu.
In this configure, 2 shows the relative position of one colors’ two row nozzles. Adjust the two row
nozzles print from right to left and align them and form the standard.
The first row of K be the standard K1, all other colors standard should align to K1.
If left row’s nozzle is 1, right row’s nozzle is 2, the above configure shows: K1K2，K1K1，C1C2，
C1K1，M1M2，M1K1，Y1Y2，Y1K1. Please pay attention that, one head has four colors. The 8 lines
nozzles are fixed relatively in position, while physical positions are fixed, under this menu, with default
value, “0” should be best aligned in the printing test. If error is big, it means physical calibration is not
done well. Need do Interleave Chink check and Tilting check again and calibrate again.
For double heads machine, the calibration theory is the same, but need twice testing printing. Make
H1K1，H1C1，H1M1，H1Y1 as the standard, the other places of the color should align to this standard.
And then H1C1，H1M1，H1Y1 align to H1K1. H1, the left head of the machine, should be Head 1; the
right head should be Head 2.
In the testing picture，H1K2，H2K2，H1K1，H2K1，H1C2，H2C2，H1C1，H2C1，H1M2，H2M2，
H1M1，H2M1，H1Y2，H2Y2，H1Y1，H2Y1
H1K2 is the combination of H1K1 and H1K2，print result of K’s left and right nozzles of Head1.
H2M2 is the combination of H1M1 and H2M2, print result of M’s left nozzles of Head1 and right
nozzles of Head 2.
Right Alignment：Menu Advanced Mode--->Adjustment---->DPI（360/720）---->VSD(1,2,3,4)----->
Right Alignment ---->Print

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In the above configure, 1(K1,C1,M1,Y1) shows the result of left nozzles’ bi-direction printing; 2 shows
the print result of left nozzles print from right to left and right nozzles print from left to right.
For double heads machine, make H1K1，H1C1，H1M1，H1Y1 the standard, the same color from two heads
should align to their standard.
In the test picture, H1K2，H2K2，H1K1，H2K1，H1C2，H2C2，H1C1，H2C1，H1M2，H2M2，H1M1，
H2M1，H1Y2, H2Y2，H1Y1，H2Y1.
H1K2 is the print result of H1K1 print from right to left and H1K2 print from left to right, which shows
color K’s left line and right line nozzles of head 1.
H2K2 is the print result of H1K1 print from right to left, which shows color M’s left line nozzles of head 1
and right line nozzles of head 2.
No matter it is left justifying or right justifying, there defines two levels standard, the first level is each
color itself, the second level is color K. With these two standards, we not only calibrate the color offset,
but also adjust the distance between the same colors, especially the same color of two heads, and improve
the print quality of pure color lump.
As software supports 360dpi and 720dpi, and have four VSD Modes, under every mode, there are Left
Alignment ,Right Alignment and Bi-Dir, a lot of things can be calibrated, in order to print perfectly, we
suggest calibrate all the issues step by step.
If we only focus on quality and use VSD1 and VSD2 seldom, then calibration on 360dpi and 720dpi isn’t
necessary.

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