DisplayMaker Legacy Mach 12 - User Manual

Printing Prime Bars 5-7
Printing Prime Bars Maintenance interval: as needed.
To keep the printhead jets firing properly, you can print solid
blocks of ink from each printhead. By inspecting these prime
bars for blank bands, you can also do a quick check for nonfir-
ing and deflected jets. Based on this quick test, you may want to
proceed to more detailed jet tests (see Chapter 4, Calibrating the
Printer, for instructions).
1. From the control panel Front Page screen, press the Prime
Bars key.
2. Choose Quick Prime Bars or Detailed Prime Bars.
Choose Quick Prime Bars for most primes, or Detailed Prime
Bars when you want to locate individual missing jets that
AutoSet may have missed, so you can map them manually
under Calibrate Printer - Manual Calibrations - Manual Jet
Mapping (see “Manual Jet Mapping” on page 4-16 for
instructions).
The control panel displays a prompt asking you to enter the
total width of the prime bar pattern you wish to print.
3. Enter a width for the prime bar pattern by pressing the p
and C keys.
4. Press the B (Proceed) key to continue.
The printer prints the prime bar pattern.