Barco SilverWriter 800 Quick start guide

Field Service Manual December 2003
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SilverWriter 800 Multi Format Family
Laser plotters
Field Service Manual
December 2003

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Copyright
© Copyright 2002 ManiaBarco N.V., Gent, Belgium
All rights reserved. This material, information and instructions for use contained herein are
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................ 3
GENERAL INFORMATION - BLOCK DIAGRAM ................................................. 7
GENERAL INFO SW8XX ..................................................................................................... 9
Machine mode....................................................................................................................... 9
Film sizes .............................................................................................................................. 9
Drumspeeds for SW8xx........................................................................................................ 9
Number of beams.................................................................................................................. 9
Operator switches................................................................................................................ 10
SilverWriter connections..................................................................................................... 13
Online switch ...................................................................................................................... 14
SILVERWRITER MF SITE PREPARATION CHECKLIST .............................. 15
BLOCK DIAGRAM SILVER WRITER ..................................................................... 19
DESCRIPTION OF THE BOARDS + ADJUSTMENTS ..................................... 21
THE LASER TOOL LANGUAGE : LTL ..................................................................... 25
Commands .......................................................................................................................... 28
General................................................................................................................................ 28
Carriage............................................................................................................................... 29
Feeder and drum.................................................................................................................. 30
Optic.................................................................................................................................... 31
Parameters........................................................................................................................... 33
Pump ................................................................................................................................... 35
LASER TOOL LANGUAGE UPDATES.......................................................................... 36
FILM FEEDER ................................................................................................................... 37
Adjusting the Film Feeder................................................................................................... 37
The Film Feeder Parameter Settings................................................................................... 54
Load process........................................................................................................................ 59
Unload process.................................................................................................................... 68
Vacuumpump...................................................................................................................... 74
The Vacuum Pump Box Components/Layout. ................................................................... 75
MF Electrical Solid State panel........................................................................................... 80
MF Relief valve system ...................................................................................................... 81
SilverWriter MF Valve System........................................................................................... 82
MF SilverWriter SUPPORT ROLLER............................................................................... 83
SilverWriter MF Pump CONTR box.................................................................................. 84
Filmsize adjustment on MFF .............................................................................................. 85
ELECTRICAL DEVICES ................................................................................................. 91
Power panel......................................................................................................................... 91
Circuit breakers................................................................................................................... 92
Solid state Panels................................................................................................................. 93
Drum Micro Master Parameter Table MM750.................................................................. 97

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Drum Micro Master Parameter Table MM440 0.75KW................................................. 100
DESCRIPTION OF THE PNEUMATICS ............................................................... 109
Shutoff Valve.................................................................................................................... 110
Manometer & Pressure Regulator..................................................................................... 110
Air Filters.......................................................................................................................... 110
Carriage Air Bearings ....................................................................................................... 112
Air Bags ............................................................................................................................ 114
Blowpipe........................................................................................................................... 116
Air speed controls ............................................................................................................. 116
Suction Caps & Vacuum Ejector ...................................................................................... 118
FRONT DOOR ADJUSTMENT .................................................................................. 119
INSTALLATION OF LINEAIR SCALE .................................................................. 123
INSTALLATION OF RSF ENCODER ..................................................................... 127
DOWNLOADING LTL SOFTWARE IN TO MACCON ...................................... 131
COPYING PARAMETERS BETWEEN TWO MACCON’S ............................... 133
HOW TO DOWNLOAD SSIPRO SOFTWARE (ON A 32 MBYTE ........... 135
PARAMETER LIST ........................................................................................................ 137
Parameters : : explanation............................................................................................... 137
Editing-Exit parameterlist................................................................................................ 151
Adjusting parameter values............................................................................................... 151
SW860 - MF...................................................................................................................... 152
SW830 - SF....................................................................................................................... 160
INSTALLATION OF CARRIAGE ON GRANITE ............................................... 169
Assembling and Mounting of the Base Carriage and linear motor................................... 169
INSTALLATION OF OPTIC ON CARRIAGE ..................................................... 173
OPTICS 600......................................................................................................................... 175
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 177
Electronic boards in the machine rack.............................................................................. 180
Theory of the optics .......................................................................................................... 181
Adjustment procedure Optics 600..................................................................................... 184
Alignment of the laser path............................................................................................... 188
Brief explanation of the laser path adjustment.................................................................. 204
TESTJOBS – FREQ AND DELAY ............................................................................ 207
POWERRIP ...................................................................................................................... 211
License file........................................................................................................................ 211
How to update-Install to PowerRip version 2.04 or higher............................................... 212
Resource files.................................................................................................................... 228
TESTJOBS - DENSITY AND LINEWIDTH ........................................................ 235
EXPOSE COMMANDS .................................................................................................. 241

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MANUALLY SUBMITTING JOBS IN THE POWERRIP PLOT QUEUE .. 243
TESTJOBS - FILM3&4 GEOMETRIC ACCURACY CHECK .......................... 247
UCAM - SMARTPLOT INSTALL CONFIGURATION ...................................... 249
Smartplot Console on PowerRip....................................................................................... 251
ERROR LIST SILVERWRITER 800 .............................................................. 253
Carriage............................................................................................................................. 253
Optic.................................................................................................................................. 255
General.............................................................................................................................. 257
Feeder - Drum................................................................................................................... 258
Communication................................................................................................................. 264
Film-Job Quality ............................................................................................................... 265
PLOT TIME CALCULATION ..................................................................................... 269
FILM PROCESSOR CONNECTION ........................................................................ 271
INSTALLATION PHASE ............................................................................................. 273
TOOLS FOR CUSTOMER CARE ENGINEERS ................................................... 273
SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................... 275
Contact information ................................................................................................... 275
Helpdesk ManiaBarco - Asia ................................................................................... 276
Helpdesk ManiaBarco - Europe, Middle East and Africa .............................. 276
Helpdesk ManiaBarco - North America and Latin America ......................... 276

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Compressed air tube
2 x 230V input
Indication lamp
Vacuum tube &
control signals Ethernet
General information - Block Diagram
Imager Room
Green Safe light 230 V
PowerRip
Data cable Ethernet
+
Vacuum Pump area
3 Phase Power Input
Composing area
Ucam
230 V
Compressor area
230 V
2 x RS-232
2 x RS-232
2
30 V

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General info SW8xx
Machine mode
1. Expose mode (customer operating mode)
After booting : Expose ? E
2. Test mode (LTL)
After booting : Expose ? L
Film sizes
Drumspeeds for SW8xx.
Untill 20320ppi
-drumspeed 26rev/sec
-24 beams
20320ppi
-drumspeed 25rev/sec
-24 beams
25400ppi
-drumspeed 20rev/sec
-24 beams
Number of beams
SW860 : 24 beams exposure (optic 24 beams)
SW830 : 12 beams exposure (optic 24 beams)
SW815 : 6 beams exposure (optic 24 beams)

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Operator switches
Door Button.
The door button is used to open or to close the front door (i.e. a rolling-shutter). This
is needed to access the film cassette and drum area.
Ones the door button is pressed first the filmfeeder bridge will move up and second
the door will open. The bridge is first moved up so the cassette is free for film
installation.
The door can also be opened by pressing ‘d’ and confirming with ‘y’ at
Ready to work. In this case the door will open but the feeder bridge will stay down.
On Button.
The On button switchs on the vacuum pump.
This is only needed to load a film manually.
In standby mode the button appears green.
Off Button.
The Off button switchs the vacuum pump off e.g. after exposing with manual
load. In standby mode the button appears green.