Product

Background

Adjust the carriage motor fine detector to resolve intermittent image shifts along the drum.

Procedure

Adjusting the coarse HP

1. Open the Carriage Motor dialog box.
2. Send the carriage motor to the 200 position.
3. Manually adjust the home position (HP) base in the middle of the oval holes to 2.5 mm from the edge.
4. From the Carriage Motor dialog box, send the carriage to HP.

Adjusting the fine HP

1. With the carriage in the HP detector, from the second Carriage Motor dialog box, click the Setting Fine HP button.
2. Remove the two Allen screws that hold the fine detector wheel.
3. Manually adjust the slot on the fine detector wheel to a position 270 degrees from the fine detector (9 o'clock), instead of the 180 degrees set previously (see Figure 1).



Figure 1 - Fine detector slot position

Note: Make sure the wheel is in the middle of the slotted detector.
4. Secure the position by tightening the two Allen screws.
5. In the prompt that appears on the PC controller, click OK.
6. At the end of the process, verify that the slot on the wheel is on the left side of the detector (see Figure 2).



Figure 2 - Fine detector slot position after adjustment

7. In the Carriage Motor dialog box, check that the Position value is 0.

Test

1. Send the carriage motor to different positions and return it to HP, making sure that each time the carriage returns to HP, the position value is 0.
2. From the Brisque, expose several jobs.
3. Verify that there is no shift between jobs.

Technical contact(s)

Content owner: Itai Peperovich
See the Escalation page for escalation contacts.

Date submitted

20 May 2002