Mimaki UCJV330 - Printer settings

Printer tab

• Scan width: Define the scanning behavior of the printer carriage. Also called logical seek in the Mimaki Operation Manual. You can choose between:
  • Printer: The carriage will scan the full length of the printer no matter the size of the printed area.
  • Job: The carriage will only scan over the width of the printed area.

• Refresh Level: Frequency of head quick cleanings during print. You can choose between Low, Normal, High, and Very High.

• Cut media:  Choose if the printer cuts and extracts the sheet after printing a job, or keeps printing the following jobs next.

Only available With Special driver

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• Varnish special effect: When printing Varnish, this setting allows you to select the desired finishing for the varnish layer, between Matte or Glossy.
• Layer configuration: Select the layer configuration for this job. For example, if you select White-Color-Clear, the White layer will be printed first, then the Color one, and finally the Clear one. Layer configuration options are:
  

  Color White Clear Color over White White over Color Clear over Color

  Color-White-Color Color-Clear-Color Color-White-Clear Clear-White-Color White-Color-Clear

    Good to know

  The driver lets you print the same image for up to 3 layers on both sides.

Media tab

• Information: At the top of the window, you can see information about your media. There you have access to two actions:
  • Save: When you click on this button, the current media settings are saved to the selected media profile (printer, media, resolution, mode) so they will be applied for any new job using the same print configuration. If you don't save, your changes are only applied to the current job.
  • Reload: Will revert to default as set during profiling or the last saved changes.

• Horizontal compensation (%): We recommend modifying it only if necessary, as any deviation will probably be due to mechanical causes on the printer.
• Vertical compensation (%): This can be useful if you detect an increase or decrease in the length due to heating or media tension, which is common when printing on vinyl or textiles, for example. To calculate the compensation, click Compute and follow the software’s instructions.

• Overprint: This selects a factor by which each pass will be repeated. It allows more ink printed for better density. With these drivers, you can select 1 or 2.
• Dot type: Select the ink drop size that will be used for the job. Selectable values are:
  • Automatic: A combination of Small, Medium, and Large dots will be used
  • Small: Only Small dots will be used
  • Medium: Only Medium dots will be used
  • Large: Only Large dots will be used
• Drying time per scan: Allows you to set up a drying time pause between each pass to allow the ink to dry between two passes. Set up the pause time with intervals of 1/10s. Can be between 0s and 9.9 seconds.
• Absorption fan: Select the strength of the absorption fan, you can operate with Weak, Standard, or Strong.
• Drying time: Configure the drying time before ending the job and starting the next operation, either cutting and extracting the sheet or starting the next job. Configure the number of seconds before the next operation. Can be between 0s and 999 seconds.
• Feed adjust: Allows to fine-tune the media feed between passes, to avoid a white gap or overlap between passes. Please contact Mimaki or see the Printer Operating manual for further details.
• Cut tool, cut speed, cut acceleration, cut force: When using Print and Cut (Instant Cut), use the selected settings for the cutting operation.
• UV level adjustment: Adjust UV curing strength to avoid over-curing or under-curing of inks. When specifying 0%, it will use the recommended light volume of each print mode.
  When specifying a negative value, the light volume will be decreased, and when specifying a positive value, the light volume will be increased. Adjust between -50% and +50% of the recommended light volume.
• Heating system: Allow to select the curing temperature. When disabled, it will use the panel's default value, when enabled, it will use the selected value. This model has three heaters:
  • Pre-heater configurable between 20 to 60°C
  • Print-heater configurable between 20 to 50°C
  • After-heater configurable between 20 to 60°C

Comments tab

On this tab you can see comments coming from the EasyMedia module. It can include comments from the global media window and from the profile project window.

Status tab

• Status: On the top of the status windows, you can see the general status of the printer. Available status may vary depending on the model but it can be one of the following:
  • Not ready: There is an issue with the printer, please see the panel for more details.
  • Lever up: The lever that maintains the pinch roller in place is open.
  • No paper: No paper loaded in the printer.
  • Cover open: The front cover of the printer is open.
  • Local idle: The printer is in a local state and not doing anything, printing is not possible.
  • Local active: The printer is in a local state, and an operation is ongoing.
  • Remote idle: The printer is in a remote state and printing is possible.
  • Remote active: The printer is remote, but currently printing.

• Inks: information about the ink configuration and the inks levels in %.

• Heaters: temperature level of the Preheater, the Printheater and the Postheater.

• Media: information about the media loaded on the printer.

• Misc: complementary info about the printer (model, serial number, firmware version).

• Refresh: button to refresh the tab.