Oce VarioStream 8000 User manual

Océ VarioStream 8000
Océ User manual
Continuous Printing System

Order number A29246-X29-X-5-7680
Edition 2008-05 US
Océ Printing Systems GmbH
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Training
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Notes on printing system documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Notes on documentation for the printing system — overview . . . . . . . . . 12
Documentation signposts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Notes on Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Notes on the Help - Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Opening Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Navigating in Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Opening Direct Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Symbol conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Symbols in the text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Symbols in illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Other documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Manufacturer of the printing system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Statutory requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 2
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Security — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Intended Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Flagging of safety directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Warning and information signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Accident and damage prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Accident and damage prevention — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Personal Representations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Transportation, assembly and installation, repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fire, disposal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Safety regulations and standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Safety regulations and standards — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
CE Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 3
Description of the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Description of the printing system — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Device overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Equipment - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Front view of the printing system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Rear view of the printing system and main switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Operating elements - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Key control panel on the paper transporter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Additional operator panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Operator Attention Light (OPAL) (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Operating elements in the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Paper specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Paper feed options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Chapter 4
Operator panel description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Description of the Operator Panel — Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Toolbar - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Buttons and displays in the left-hand area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Buttons and displays in the center area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Frame toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Menu tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Menu tree — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
'General' menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
'General' menus — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
'User management' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
'User' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
'Security' menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
VarioStream menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
'VarioStream' menus — overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
'Displays' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
'Configuration' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
'Setup' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
'Replace consumables' menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Menu display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Chapter 5
Working with the operator panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Working with the operator panel — overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Managing user settings (Key Operator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Manage user settings (Key Operator) — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Advanced password protection (optional extra for the Variostream 9000)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
'Add user'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
'Delete user'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Setting password/'General' tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Releasing and blocking menus and elements/'User rights' tab. . . . . . 97

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Setting language/'User profile' tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Managing user settings (Operator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Manage user settings (Operator) — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Log on as user and request an access ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Changing password/'Password' tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Changing language/'User profile' tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Log off as user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Selecting settings and entering values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Applying or resetting settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Configuring operation mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Working with setups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Working with setups — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Creating a new setup or changing a setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Importing a setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Exporting a setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Managing resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Managing resources — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Resource installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Delete resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Editing 'Replace consumables' menus on the operator panel. . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 6
Operating the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Operating the printing system — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Powering on the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
After printing has stopped, switch the printing system back to 'Ready' . 125
Inserting the paper web on single printing systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Inserting the paper web on single printing systems - overview. . . . . 126
Preparing to insert the paper web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Preparing to insert the paper web - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Stopping the printing system and opening the doors. . . . . . . . . . 128
Preparing the paper transporter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Preparing the paper web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Inserting the paper web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Inserting the paper web - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Inserting paper web in paper input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Inserting paper web in vacuum box and paper transporter . . . . . 136
Completing the insertion of the paper web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Completing the insertion of the paper web - overview . . . . . . . . . 140
Close flaps, units, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Settings for different paper properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
After inserting the paper web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Inserting the paper web in twin and triplex printing systems . . . . . . . . . 148
Inserting the paper web in twin and triplex printing systems - overview .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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Preparing to insert the paper web on twin or triplex printing systems 149
Paper guide in the inline turn bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Paper guide in the inline turn bar - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Paper guide for reverse-side printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Paper guide for front-side printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Changing paper width in the inline turn bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Paper guide in the turning platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Paper guide in the turning platform - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Paper guide for reverse-side printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Paper guide for front-side printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Synchronization and positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Synchronization and positioning - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Synchronization - Page integrity marks (PIM) for perforated paper . 164
Synchronization - Barcode synchronization mark for unperforated paper
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Positioning mark sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Positioning mark sensors - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Positioning upper mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Positioning lower mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Calibrating mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Calibrating mark sensor - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Calibrating upper mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Calibrate lower mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Paper change settings on the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Paper change settings on the printing system - overview. . . . . . . . . 181
Possible dirt after paper change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Set rear paper web guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Set pressure roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Set loop puller force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Setting the position of the brake roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Setting the position of the brake roller - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Paper web runs to the rear in the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Paper web runs to the front in the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
The brake roller setting has been lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Paper change settings on the operator panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Paper change settings on the operator panel - overview . . . . . . . . . 194
Settings on the operator panel: 'Setup' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Settings on the operator panel: Paper with/without perforation. . . . . 196
Settings on the operator panel: Paper dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Settings on the operator panel: Paper brake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Settings on the operator panel: Fusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Synchronized roll change during a print job (twin/triplex). . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Replacing paper roll during a print job (twin/triplex) - overview. . . . . 200
Automatic start of roll replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Manual roll replacement before paper end or without external paper end

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light barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Activate/deactivate function 'Automatic start' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Affixing the paper web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Printing with another color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Printing with another color - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Replacing the toner feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Replacing the toner feed - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Removing toner feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Installing toner feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Replacing the developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Replacing the developer station — overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Preparations for removing the developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Removing the developer station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Final tasks for removing the developer station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Preparations for installing the developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Installing the developer station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Final tasks for installing the developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Converting the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Converting the printing system - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Select configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Start conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Replacing the toner feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Replacing developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Changing the photoconductor drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Replace fuser roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Complete conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Powering off the printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Chapter 7
Cleaning the printing system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Cleaning the printing system — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Cleaning agents and devices, cleaning intervals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Clean the paper path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Clean transfer roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Clean plastic strips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Clean fuser station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Clean soft fuser roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Clean the developer station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Cleaning the sensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Cleaning the sensors — overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Cleaning the toner mark sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Cleaning the toner dust sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Cleaning the paper edge sensor in the fuser station. . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Clean paper edge monitoring sensor (with inserted paper) . . . . . . . 283
Cleaning the toner suction system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

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Clean corotrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Clean LED print head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Cleaning the filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Clean screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Cleaning the printing system generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Chapter 8
Replacing consumables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Replacing consumables — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Order numbers and packaging units for consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Monthly requirement for consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Toner bottle identification with Océ TonerSafeTM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Replacing the developer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Replacing the developer — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Empty developer station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Fill developer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Completing the replacement of the developer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Replacing the fuser oil bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Replacing the fuser oil bottle - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Removing the fuser oil bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Inserting the fuser oil bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Replacing waste oil container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Replacing the waste oil container — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Removing waste oil container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Installing waste oil container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Change toner bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Filling toner box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Replacing the waste toner bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Replacing the waste toner bottle - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Removing the waste toner bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Inserting the waste toner bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Chapter 9
Replacing expendables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Replacing expendables — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Order numbers and packaging units for expendables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Monthly requirement for expendables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Replacing the active filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Replacing the active filter - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Remove active filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Insert active filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Replacing the pressure roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Replacing the pressure roller - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Remove pressure roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Install pressure roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

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Replacing the corotrons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Replacing the corotrons - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Preparing corotron replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Remove charge corotrons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Install charge corotrons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Remove torn charge corotron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Remove discharge corotrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Install discharge corotrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Remove torn discharge corotron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Complete corotron replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Replacing the heating element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Replacing the heating element - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Remove heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Installing the heating element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Replacing the fine filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Replacing the fine filter - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Remove fine filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Install fine filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Replacing the fuser roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Replacing the fuser roller - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Preparing to replace the fuser roller and removing the heating element
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Remove fuser roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Install fuser roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Installing the heating element and completing replacement of the fuser
roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Replacing the photoconductor drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Replacing the photoconductor drum - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Removing the photoconductor drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Install photoconductor drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Running in the photoconductor drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Replacing the cleaning brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Replacing the cleaning brush — overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Remove cleaning brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Inserting the cleaning brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Replacing the cleaning belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Replacing the cleaning belt - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Remove cleaning belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Install cleaning belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Replacing the transfer roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Replace/clean transfer roller - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Remove transfer roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Install transfer roller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Replacing the waste collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Replacing the dirt bin - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

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Remove dirt bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Install dirt bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Chapter 10
Correcting problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Correcting problems — overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Processing messages on the operator panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Permitting or blocking remote access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Correct fusing errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Clogged toner suction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Clogged toner suction - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Vacuum out the toner feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Remove toner from the clogged toner feed hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Substandard print quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Substandard print quality - overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Substandard print quality Cause and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Chapter 11
Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Technical data - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Technology and printing speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Electrical values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Mechanical conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Environmental conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Appendix A
Your comments on this user guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Your comments on this user guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

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Notes on documentation for the printing system — overview
Notes on documentation for the printing system — overview
Introduction
The purpose of this documentation is to ensure that all printing system-related work
is carried out safely and correctly. It contains safety directives that must be strictly
observed.
Each section is divided into small, easy-to-understand subject areas. Overviews at
the beginning ofthe sections help you to find the precise information you are looking
for quickly.
Overview
Here, you will find information on the following topics:
■Documentation signposts on page 13
■Notes on the Help - Overview on page 15
■Symbols in the text on page 24
■Symbols in illustrations on page 25
■Other documents on page 26
■Manufacturer of the printing system on page 27
■Statutory requirements on page 28

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Documentation signposts
Documentation signposts
Introduction
Documentation available to you on the Océ VarioStream 8000 includes a printed
user guide and help on the operator panel. This help is updated with every new
version of the operator panel software.
Security
This section gives you all necessary information on how to safely and efficiently
operate the printing system.
Description of the printing system
This section shows the structure of the printing system, describes the operating
elements and explains the printing principle. You will also find information on paper
types and how to handle the paper.
Operator panel description
This section describes the individual areas of the operator panel with the most
important menus, buttons and icons.
Working with the operator panel
This section explains how you manage all user settings, how you select or enter
parameters on the operator panel, how you collect special settings for frequently
recurring print jobs using setups, how you manage resources for printing operation
and how you replace consumables and expendables using the operator panel.
Operating the printing system
Thissection describeshowtopower theprintingsystem onandoffandtheprocedure
for inserting, affixing and removing the paper web, and also contains all other
information that you will need to operate the printing system.
Cleaning the printing system
This section shows you how often to clean the different components and how to carry
out this cleaning.

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Documentation signposts
Replacing consumables
This section describes in detail all the steps required to replace consumables. It also
provides the order numbers and package units for all consumables.
Replacing expendables
This section describes in detail all the steps required to replace expendables. It also
provides the order numbers and package units for all expendables.
Correcting errors
This section shows you how to locate and remedy errors using the messages
displayed on the operator panel. It also describes how you can enable remote access
to allow remote diagnosis by Service during print operation. You will also find
information on how to correct any fusing errors.
Technical data
This section contains the most important technical data for the printing system.
You can use the ruler for controlling the paper path synchronization to assign the
marks on the paper input to certain form lengths.

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Notes on the Help - Overview
Notes on Help
Notes on the Help - Overview
Introduction
This section shows you how you can quickly and easily access the information that
you currently require for your work with the printing system.
There are two ways you can access help topics:
■Help button on the toolbar and subsequent navigation via contents, index or
search
■Direct Help via the F1 key
Overview
Here, you will find information on the following topics:
■Opening Help on page 16
■Opening Direct Help on page 21
Navigating in the Help:
■Contents on page 18
■Index on page 19
■Search on page 20
Symbol conventions
■Symbols in the text on page 24
■Symbols in illustrations on page 25

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Opening Help
Opening Help
To open Help
[1] Proceed as follows:
1. Click on the following button in the frame toolbar:
[1]
The Help window opens. The navigation area is displayed initially:
[2]
The width of the navigation area can be changed with the mouse.

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Opening Help
Function of the buttons in the Help window
[2] Button Function
[3]
[4]
Hides or displays the navigation area with the following tabs:
■Contents on page 18
■Index on page 19
■Search on page 20
When the navigation area is hidden, more space is available to
view the help topics.
[5] Switches between the last help topics (backwards or forwards).
[6] Switches from any help topic directly to the Help start page.
[7] Closes Help.

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Contents
Navigating in Help
Contents
Structuring in main groups
The Help is divided into separate main groups:
■'General'
■'VarioStream'
■'Paperpath Manager'
■Any devices for paper post-print processing
To call up Help topics via the contents
[3] Proceed as follows:
1. Click on the 'Contents' tab.
2. Click on the buttons for specific help levels to fade them in and out
[8]
3. Click on a help topic

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Index
Index
Introduction
Entries on the 'Index' tab are sorted alphabetically. Any number of secondary
keywords can be attached to a primary keyword.
To select information via the Index
[4] Proceed as follows:
1. Click on the "Index" tab.
2. Scroll through the index entries
or
enter text (including partial words) into the 'Search' field and press Enter.
Example:
[9]
3. Click on a help topic

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Search
Search
Introduction
You can access the full text search function via the "Search" tab. The full text search
is used to find one or more specific words in the entire Help. Uppercase or lowercase
is not relevant for the search. Partial words cannot be found.
To call up information via the full text search
[5] Proceed as follows:
1. Click on the 'Search' tab.
2. Enter the text in the 'Search' input field.
3. Press Enter.
The search results are listed by thetitle of the corresponding help topic, and
are sorted by level of matches and the frequency in which the word appears
in the help topic. Example:
[10]
The circle in the first column indicates the level of matching. The more
filled the circle is, the better the result matches the text that was searched for.
The number in the second column of the search result indicates how often
it occurs in the Help topic.
4. Click on a help topic