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Figure 5.4-1: Wipe After Number of Prints
5: Cap Head Delay
You can also control how long the printer will go before the maintenance station engages to seal off the
print- heads. The default for this setting is two minutes.
Figure 5.5-1: Setting Cap Head Delay
The maintenance station seals off the print-heads when the printer is idle; this keeps air from drying out
the ink in your print-head nozzles. However, the process of the maintenance station rising to seal off the
heads takes a few seconds and it is not necessary to seal off the head in between every print. By default,
the Cap Head Delay is set to two minutes. That means that the maintenance station will automatically
engage to seal off the print heads two minutes after a shirt is printed. If another shirt is printed within
those two minutes the maintenance station will stay down to save time and speed up production.
You can use the arrow keys to shorten or lengthen the amount of time the maintenance station will stay
down before engaging to seal off the heads. The longest you can set the Cap Head Delay is 15 minutes as
we would not recommend the print-head going unsealed for any longer.