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Plate Setting Configuration Process

Insert Plate Measurements
Manual Adjustment of Weight Balance
Manual Setting of Pre-load Tail Gripper
Verify Position of Tail Gripper Position

Plate setting configuration involves four different activities as follows:

1. Load plates in a cassette and define the plate measurements in the Lotem application (in the Off-line cassette or Current cassette windows).
2. Adjust weight balance and verify plate dimensions.
3. Pre-load tail gripper setting.
4. Verify position of tail grippers.

Notes for sw version 2.0:

• When updating the plate size, the balance weight and tail gripper location are adjusted automatically.
• To manually adjust the balance and tail gripper, please perform the following: select hardware loading system load plate to drum loading system new plate 4.

Insert Plate Measurements

To insert new plate measurements (applies to sw versions 1.18 and 2.0):

1. If the cassette is loaded into the machine, click Release Cassette. Unload the cassette and load new plates into the cassette.
2. Measure the width and height dimensions of the new plates and load the cassette.
3. The Current Cassette window opens. Enter the plate height and width measurements and the number of plates in the cassette.
4. Select OK.

Manual Adjustment of Weight Balance

Note: The following applies to sw version 1.18.

1. To adjust the weight balance of the machine, measure the new plates.
2. Refer to the Weight balance table (below) to obtain the position of the weight balances for the obtained plate measurements.
3. Remove the interlock cheaters inserted at the beginning of this procedure, to ensure that there is no power to the drum.
4. There are two (2) weight balances on each side of the drum. Begin with the first balance at the right hand side.
5. Attach the weight balance positioning jig to the closest weight balance. Refer to the table for location.
6. Hold the drum with one hand and slowly move the balance with the jig attached until it reaches the desired position. Note that there is a ruler consisting of two scales, engraved around the perimeter of the drum. The outer scale consists of readings in degrees that must be used to position the weight balance.
7. Perform the same procedure for the second balance.
8. Repeat the above procedure for the two weight balances at the left side of the machine.

The weight balance locations according to exposed plate size and thickness are listed below.

For Plate thickness of 0.3 mm:

For Plate thickness of 0.24 mm:

Manual Setting of Pre-load Tail Gripper

Note: The following applies to sw version 1.18.

1. Slide the tail grippers all the way down the slot until they are at the end opposite the head grippers.
2. From the Hardware menu select Loading System, and then click Drum init to reset the drum to initialization position.
3. Verify that the General field displays [OK][InitXY - DR ].
4. Click Pre-load and select Yes in answer to system prompt: Are You Sure? This rotates the drum and brings the tail grippers to the position loaded for the new plate size.
5. Load a plate and select From Drum Entry to Drum (c ). Make sure the Ignore Stage Test check box is not checked.
6. The Keep Task List window opens, verifying the procedure is executing.

Verify Position of Tail Gripper Position

Note: The following applies to sw versions 1.18 and 2.0.

After the plate is loaded, visually check that all tail grippers uniformly grip the plate (at least 4 mm).

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