Product

Kodak^® Magnus^™ 400 platesetter

Component

LDA driver

Error

A recovery message related to exposing with a reduced number of beams appears.

Symptoms

Throughput is low.

Cause

A faulty LDA driver caused an inconsistent power flow to the diodes.

Solution

1. Locate C:\Magnus\Util and double-click
   LifMonitor.exe.
   
   
   
   
2. In the LifMonitor dialog box, click Connect.
   
   
   
   
3. Configure the first and last lasers and the power, and then click Calibration.
   Note: For S type configurations, type 0-31; for F type configurations, type 0-41.
4. Click Settings.
   
   
   
   
5. In the Settings dialog box, click Init.
   
   
   
   
6. Click Advanced.
   
   
   
   
7. In the Lda Advanced Settings dialog box, click Laser Graph.
   
   
   
   
8. In the Laser dialog box, select the desired channel and click Show.
9. To view the selected channel's direct current, in the blink frequency box, select none and click Show.
   
   

See also

Reduced laser performance

Technical contact(s)

Mario Amir

Submitted by

Shay Amsili

Date submitted

18 Jan 2006