Kalerm K90 User manual

Fully Automatic Coffee Machine
OPERATION MANUAL
Model
K90

The appliance and its parts
1Bean container lid
2Water tank lid
3Water tank
4Drip tray lid
5Coffee ground container
6Drip tray
7Grinder wheel lid
8Grinder adjustment wheel
9Bean container
2Power cord1
0Hot water spout1
1Coffee spout1
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Controls and display
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Return button Up button
Next button
Cappuccino button
Coffee latte button
Menu/OK button
Espresso button
Americano button
Macchiato buttonHot water button
On/Off button
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Contents
Safety Tips
Coffee machine model
Symbol description
Power on
Grinding wheels adjustment
Power off
Making cappuccino
Making multiple cups
Automatic water inlet mode setting
Cleaning brewing unit
Rinsing milk unit
Descaling the coffee machine
Cleaning coffee grounds container and drip tray
Cleaning water tank
Cleaning bean container
Cleaning milk pipe
Emptying the unit
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The appliance and its parts
Controls and display
Safety instructions
Instructions for use
Instructions for first time use
Making beverages
Program setting
Cleaning and maintenance
Failures handling
Transport and recycle
Technical data
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● Please do not touch heating parts of coffee machine to avoid scalding.
Do avoid spillage on the connector. The coffee-maker shall not be placed
in a cabinet when in use. Switch off the appliance and disconnect from
supply before changing accessories or approaching parts that move in use
Instructions for appliances connected to the water mains:
max. inlet water pressure is 5 bar
min. inlet water pressure is 1 bar
● Instructions concerning new and old hose-sets for appliances connected to
the water mains by detachable hose-sets.
● This appliance is intended to be used in household and similar applications
such as:
a staff kitchen areas in shops, offices and other working environments
b farm houses
c by clients in hotels, motels and other residential type environments
d bed and breakfast type environments
● The instructions for all appliances include a warning to avoid spillage on the
connector.
● The appliances normally cleaned after use and must not be immersed in
water for cleaning.
● To avoid operator’s injury caused by burn, electric shock or other unexpected
reasons, please do not contact the power cord, plug, and main body with water.
● This appliance can be used by children aged from 8 years and above if they
have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance in
a safe way and if they understand the hazards involved. Cleaning and user
maintenance shall not be made by children unless they are older than 8 and
supervised. Keep the appliance and its cord out of reach of children aged less
than 8 years. Children shall not play with the appliance.
● Appliances can be used by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental
capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge if they have been given
supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance in a safe way and
understand the hazards involved.
● If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacturer, its
service agent or similar qualified persons in order to avoid a hazard.
● Unplug from outlet when stop using and before cleaning. Always disconnect
the appliance from the supply before disassembling, assembling and cleaning
the coffee machine.
● Use of parts that are not explicitly recommended would result in a fire of coffee
machine, electric shock, or injury to persons.
● Please do not use the machine outdoor.
● Please do not hang up the power cord to the edges of the table, for it might
be abased to an electric leakage, and cause injury to operators.
● Please place the machine in a fixed and stable workbench, and keep far away
from high temperature (e.g. gas stoves, electric cookers, induction cookers, etc.,).
● Power off the machine, until the cleaning program finished and no indication
on screen, and then unplug the power.
● When using espresso, long coffee and hot water, liquid in high temperature
will flow from coffee spout and hot water spout. Please do not touch it to avoid
scalding.
● When using cappuccino, coffee latte, hot milk/cream, please confirm that the
milk pipe has been connected from the milk frother to milk before making
cappuccino, coffee latte, and hot milk/cream. Otherwise, high temperature
steam may cause personal injury.
Safety instructions
Precautions
Please read the operating instructions carefully before using the appliance and
keep them for future reference.
Please see specification label on back of coffee machine and technical data is
indicated in instruction manual.
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Except for cleaning and daily maintenance to coffee machine, if it fails to work
please send it to authorized after-sale service center for repairing, or contact
with customer service for after-sale services.
Prohibitions
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● Never immerse the machine into water, and do not put the machine near the
water tap or water tank.
● Never disassemble coffee machine without authorization, for any
maintenance needs disassembling the machine, please return it to Service
Centre or contact after-sales service center.
● Never use an unmatched voltage to the electric specification of the
machine; otherwise, the machine would be burnt.
● Only purified water in room temperature is allowed to be filled into the water
tank. Never put warm water, hot water, milk or other liquid into it.
● Never carry or move the coffee machine while working. For moving or carrying
the coffee machine, please switch it off and unplug the power cord firstly.
● The machine may release heat. Therefore, when placing the machine in the
workbench, at least 3cm must be left against its surface, sides and wall side;
at least 15cm must be left against its top. Prohibit placing the machine into a
narrow space. As for dimension of the machine, please look at the Technical
Data of User Manual (Page 18).
● Never use non-family usage detergent to wipe the machine, otherwise it may
cause corrosion of coffee machine, and result in a risk of electric shock.
●Never use wet rag to wipe coffee machine, may result in a risk of electric shock.
● Never use hard edged tool or rough rag to clean the stain on the machine, it
will damage the machine.
● Never put instant coffee powder or cocoa powder or other mixture powder
into the bean container or powder container. It would cause coffee machine
damaged.
● Never fill specially treated coffee bean ( e.g. cocoa, sugar coated ) into the
bean container, it would cause coffee machine damaged.
● Only roasted coffee bean is allowed to put into the bean container. Rice,
soybean, chocolate bean, nut, sugar, spice, etc., are prohibited. Otherwise it
would cause coffee machine damaged.
● Never wash bean container or powder container with water, it will damage
the machine.
● Never use coffee machine in the environment temperature below 0 °C. Water
inside the machine will freeze and cause the coffee machine damaged.
● Never expose the machine in rainy, snowy, frosty environment. It would cause
coffee machine damaged.
Damages due to above reasons are not covered under
warranty.

● Please notice the following tips to avoid personal injury from electric shock.
● Do not operate the coffee machine if the appliance or the power cord is
damaged.
● When encountering breakdowns of the machine (if any burning smell or
smoke), unplug the power cord immediately and contact with service center.
● When Coffee machine is unused for long periods, unplug the power cord and
put it away, so that not to trip up people or damage to the power cord.
● Please don't use unoriginal parts, otherwise, it may cause the machine
damaged.
This manual only applies to K90 series.
Operation
The coffee beans should be put at dry place and avoid sunlight. Otherwise
wetting beans may cause damage to the grinding unit.
Also it suggests that beans should not be left in bean container in case of
leaving coffee machine unused for long time. Otherwise the beans may wet
and cause blockage to grinder.
● Please make sure that the machine enters into “READY” status before other
operation.
● The temperature of the hot water is high, Please do not touch it to avoid being
scalded.
● Adjustable height of coffee spout: 100-160mm.
Safety Tips
Coffee machine model 06
Symbol description
Non-compliance with the operation, may cause electric shock, and threat to
life.
Non-compliance with the operation may cause Coffee machine damaged, or
personal injury.
Non-compliance with the operation, may cause scalded or burn injury.
This symbol, if prompted, please carefully read it.
This symbol, if prompted, represents recycle.
This symbol represents that do not fill the coffee beans to in the powder
container. Otherwise it will damage the machine.

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Instructions for first-time use
This chapter will help you understand the basic operations
and settings for your first time use.
● As the machine has been tested at factory, there may be a
little coffee powder left . We promise the machine is brand
new.
● The coffee machine will start self-testing and cleaning at the
first-time use, this helps the coffee machine achieve the best
working condition, and this process cannot be skipped.
● During the cleaning process, some hot water may flow out of
the coffee spout into the drip tray.
● Please avoid contacting the spilling hot water.
● Step1：Only purified water at room temperature is allowed
to fill in the water tank(The amount of water in the water tank
cannot exceed the height of the MAX mark) .
● Step2：Fill beans into the bean container.
● Step3：Connect to power .
● Step4：Please turn on the power switch on the back of the
coffee machine.
● Step5：Pressing power button to activate the appliance.
● Please adjust the fineness of coffee bean powder according
to the coffee beans.
● Please don’t adjust the grinding wheel when the grinder is
running, or the grinder will be damaged.
● During making coffee, if the coffee outflows very slowly or
completely does not outflow, please set it to the rough
mode 4 or 5.
● The rotary selector on the top of the appliance adjusts the
degree of grinding from fine(mode1) to coarse(mode5) as
required. Factory setting is mode 3.
● If your coffee beans are in dark color, it is recommended to
set to the rough mode 4 or 5.
● The adjustment of grinding wheel will be effective only after
making two or more cups of coffee.
Power on
Grinding wheel
rough
rough plus
normal
fine
fine minus

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Power off
Making beverages
Take ‘cappuccino’ and ‘Multi-cup/milk/cream’ for example
to explain how to make coffee by touch icons.
● There may be some coffee powder for testing left in
machine. Therefore do not drink the first cup of beverage
and second one.
● You can use “∧∨” to select further options, such as the
coffee strength and per-cup quantity. This setting won’t be
saved. You can press to cancel making beverage.
Firmly connect the milk pipe with milk frother and milk box.
Touch the ‘cappuccino’ icon for cappuccino function.
When the screen displays‘enjoy’, it means the cappuccino is
ready, please enjoy it.
After using milk or milk foaming , the Rinse Milk Unit function
will be operated when power off.
Remove the milk pipe from the milk box/container and insert
to the hole of the drip tray grid according to the display.
Making cappuccino
● Touch ‘∧∨’ icon to select ‘Multi-cup/milk/cream’function.
● Select the quantity of cups.
● Select the beverage type.
● When the screen displays‘enjoy’, it means the beverage is ready, please
enjoy it.
Multi-cup/milk/cream

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Program setting
Ensure the coffee machine shows “READY”, press
the“MENU/OK” button , then you can enter into the program
Setting menu.
Setting content
Including maintenance setting,beverage setting,machine
setting and so on,you can switch between the different setting
options by pressing the arrow button “∧∨”.
Press “MENU/OK”for confirming settings and press
button to exit the menu.
• The factory settings for water supply is water tank.
Automatic water inlet mode setting
● Install the connector with 1/2 screw-thread side and 1/4 side
on the connector of coffee machine.
● Connect the 1/4 water tube with coffee machine and purified
water supply.
Step1: water pipe connection
Step2：program setting
Enter “Menu” and select “Machine”
setting;
Enter “ Water supply”.
Select “Tap water” and press
“MENU/OK”for confirming settings

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Cleaning and maintenance
● This chapter will instruct you how to clean and maintain the coffee machine.
● Paying attention to daily maintenance of coffee machine, not only ensure
the taste of each cup of coffee, but also extend the life of the coffee machine
● After a long-term use, there will be some coffee powder left on the brewing
unit. Remove the powder by deeply cleaning brewing unit.
● Please use cleaning tablets to clean brewing unit. The process of cleaning
brewing unit takes about 20 minutes.
Cleaning brewing unit
Enter the program settings, select the
‘MAINTENANCE’ option and confirm
Select ‘tablet cleaning’ and confirm.
Empty tray
Install tray
Open the coffee grinder wheel lid, add the
cleaning tablet. Close the grinder wheel lid
and press “MENU/OK”for confirming.

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Cleaning the milk frother
● After a long-term use, some waste would be left in the Milk unit and need be
cleaned.
After entering the program settings,
select the " milk frother cleaning" option,
Remove the milk pipe from the milk
box/container and insert to the hole of
the drip tray grid
Press “MENU/OK” to start cleaning.
It will automatically return to “READY”
status after cleaning.
Clean tray
Install tray
After cleaning finished, the machine
enters into “READY” status.

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● The daily usage will cause calcareous deposited in coffee machine. The
depositing rate varies with the local water hardness.
● Decalcifier contains acidic substances that would stimulate your eyes
and skin, so you must strictly comply with the security warnings noted by
manufacturer on the packaging.
● If you have contacted it with your eyes or skin by accident, please wash
it with clean water immediately.
● For cleaning and descaling only use the tablets intended for such from
KALERM. They were specially developed for this fully automatic espresso
machine. Otherwise it may cause damage to your coffee appliance.
● Dissolve the decalcifier in clean water, and then put the mixed liquid into
the water tank. Fully dissolve the decalcifier
can descale the coffee machine more thoroughly.
● The whole descaling process takes about 40 minutes.
● The termination during the descaling process will damage the coffee
machine. So once you start the descaling process,
● Please do not terminate it midway.
Descaling the coffee machine
After a certain time use, if it reaches the
degree of descaling, ‘NEEDS DESCALE’
and’ PRESS ‘RINSE’ will automatically
display on the screen alternately.
After entering the program settings, select
the " maintenance" option, select
‘DESCALE’ and press “MENU/OK” to start
this program
Empty tray
Install tray

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Install tray
Take the water tank out, empty the rest
water and clean it. Add purified water
again, and reinstall it to the coffee
machine
When the screen shows “READY”, it
indicates the descaling is completed;
Now, you can continue to make coffee.
Take a bag of decalcifier and sufficiently
dissolves it in clean water, then put this
mixed liquid to the water tank, and
reinstall the water tank to coffee machine
Empty tray

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● Do not use chemical solvents and erosive cleaner or alcohol
to clean the coffee grounds container and drip tray.
● The drip tray and coffee grounds container cannot be
cleaned in dishwasher
● Do not use metal objects to clean dirt or coffee precipitate
to avoid scraping the drip tray and coffee grounds
container.
● When prompted to clean the coffee grounds, coffee
grounds must be cleaned up, or it will cause the machine
damaged.
Cleaning coffee grounds container and drip tray
When it cumulates to 35 cups, it will automatically
indicate “EMPTY GROUNDS”. Please remove coffee
grounds of the drip tray and coffee grounds container.
Then reinstall the drip tray to the coffee machine after 3
seconds.
If the drip tray is full, the machine will automatically
indicate "EMPTY TRAY". Take out the water drip tray and
pour the waste water and clean the Sheet Metal. Then
reinstall the drip tray to the coffee machine after 3
seconds.

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● In order to keep milk pipe clean, please clean it every day.
1. Take off milk frother carefully.
2. Disassemble the milk frother.
3. Clean milk pipe in running water.
4. Assemble the milk frother and install it on the coffee
machine.
Disassemble and clean milk frother
● Please use a dry rag or a paper towel to clean the
residuary grease in the bean container.
● Because the bean container cover is made from
food-grade and environmental materials, it might be
friable to crack. Please gently pick it up and put it down,
and never let it fall down. If the bean container lid
damaged, please contact with customer service center.
Cleaning bean container
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● Suggested that, each time adding water, clean the tank
thoroughly with running water first.
● Because the water tank is made from food-grade and
environmental materials, it might be friable to crack.
Please gently pick it up and put it down, and never let it
fall down. If the water tank damaged, please contact
with customer service center.
Cleaning water tank

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Failures handling
Display
EMPTY TRAY
EMPTY GROUNDS
FILL WATER TANK
FILL BEANS
INSTALL TRAY
UNIT EMPTY
ERROR CODE 1~7
PRESSURE HIGH
BREW UNIT ERROR
Cause Solution
If the water drip tray is full, any function
of making beverage will be out of
service.
EMPTY GROUNDS，If the coffee
grounds container is full, any function
of making beverage will be out of
service.
If water in the water tank is used up,
any function of making beverage will
be out of service.
If coffee beans in the bean container
are used up, function of making coffee
will be out of service.
The drip tray is not installed
correctly; any function is out of service.
The water in the pipe inside the
machine is not enough; any function is
out of service.
The coffee machine failures, may not
be able to be used.
1. Using dark roasted coffee beans or
over fine coffee powder;
2. The filter of the brewer is clogged.
Internal parts malfunction
Take the drip tray out, empty the
waste water in the drip tray and
reinstall it to the machine.
Take the coffee grounds container
out, empty the coffee grounds
container and reinstall it.
Fill the water tank with water.
Add beans into bean container
Install the drip tray correctly.
press “MENU/OK” to confirm.
1. Power off, restarting up ；
2. If still unresolved, please pull out
the plug. Contact with customer
service center.
1. Adjust grinder wheel to rougher;
2. Start brewer cleaning procedure
Restart coffee machine

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● When recycling the machine, some inner parts can be recycled to use
again. Please pay attention to recycle them for environmental protection.
Transport and recycle
Transport
Recycle
● Please save the packaging of the coffee machine for
future transportation.
● Make sure to empty water inside the machine before
transportation, otherwise, it will damage the machine
● After emptying the waterway, please wipe the machine
both inside and outside to dry.
● Once the empty waterway program was executed, the
system will rerun to the program of “first-time use”, when
the coffee machine is used again.
● While emptying the waterway, there will be a
high-temperature steam sprays from coffee spout. Please
pay special attention to avoid being scalded.
● Please empty the water system in “water tank” mode.
The machine is on the status of “READY”.
Enter program setting and ‘Machine’
and select ‘Factory reset’.
Display “EMPTY UNIT” and confirm. Turn off
the water supply or remove water tank,
then machine begins to clean up the
waterway automatically .After emptying
the waterway, the machine will
automatically power off. Take the drip
tray out after the power is switched off,
and clean the water in the drip tray.

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220~240 V/ 50~60 Hz
2700 W
19 bar
1.8 L
1000 g
100 - 160 mm
1.8 m
17 kg
Voltage/Frequency
Power
Pump pressure
Capacity of water tank
Capacity of bean container
Capacity of coffee
grounds container
Adjusting height of coffee spout
Length of power cord
Net weight
Dimensions
(Length× Width ×Height) 511mm*303mm*582mm
30-35 pieces
Technical Data