CANON BJC8500 Service Manual

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Service Manual for CANON BJC8500, downloadable as a PDF file.

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QY8-1356-000
REVISION 0
COPYRIGHT
©
© 1999 CANON INC. CANON BJC-8500 0399 AB 0.30-0 PRINTED IN JAPAN (IMPRIME AU JAPON)
MAR. 1999
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QY8-1356-000
REVISION 0
COPYRIGHT
©
© 1999 CANON INC. CANON BJC-8500 0399 AB 0.30-0 PRINTED IN JAPAN (IMPRIME AU JAPON)
MAR. 1999
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Target Readers
This manual is published by Canon Inc. for qualified persons and contains the necessary technical
information for technical theory, installation, maintenance, and repair of products. This manual covers
all localities where the products are sold. For this reason, it may contain information that does not
apply to your locality.
Revisions
This manual may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors due to improvements or
changes in the products. When amendments are made to the content of this manual, Canon will issue
technical information as the need arises. In the event of major alterations to the content of this manual
over a long or short period, Canon will publish a revised version of the manual.
The following paragraph does not apply to any countries where such provisions are
inconsistent with the local law.
Trademarks
The product names and company names appearing in this manual are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of the individual companies.
Copyright
This manual is copyrighted and all rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be
copied, reproduced, or translated into other languages, in whole or in part, without the express written
consent of Canon Inc. except in the case of internal business use.
Copyright
©
© 1999 by Canon Inc.
CANON INC.
BJ Products Quality Support Dept.
16-1, Shimonoge 3-chome, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213, Japan
This manual was produced on an Apple Macintosh
TM Power Mac 7300/180 personal computer and Apple
LaserWriter
TM II NTX-J laser beam printer; final pages were printed on Agfa SelectSet Avantra 25.
A YANO 640MO drive system NJ640MO with MITSUBISHI MO disk cartridge MR230M1 were used for
storing large volumes of page layout and graphic data for this manual.
All graphics were produced with MACROMEDIA FREEHAND
TM 7.0J.
All documents and all page layouts were created with QuarkXPress
TM 3.3J.
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I
I. ABOUT THIS MANUAL
This manual is divided into five parts containing the information required for servicing the BJC-
8500 printer.
Part 1: Safety and Precautions
This part contains information on how to service the unit safely. It is very important, and
must be read.
Part 2: Product Specifications
This part outlines the product and its specifications.
Part 3: Operating Instructions
This part explains how to operate the unit properly, how to set it up properly, and how to
use the service mode.
Part 4: Technical Reference
This part outlines the unit operation giving a technically.
Part 5: Maintenance
This part explains maintenance of the unit. It includes details of disassembly/assembly,
adjustments required when assembling, troubleshooting procedures, and wiring/circuit
diagrams, etc.
This manual does not contain complete information required for
disassembling and assembling the BJC-8500 printer. Please also refer to the
separate Parts Catalog.
This printer prints various ink and plain paper ink optimizer (except in the
draft mode when plain paper, envelope or thick paper is selected). This plain
paper ink optimizer is an almost transparent, colorless liquid.
For convenience, this manual sometimes refers to the plain paper ink
optimizer simply as "ink optimizer" and the combination of ink and plain
paper ink optimizer as "ink."
This manual also refers to the BJ cartridge and print head (head) as the one
and same thing.
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II. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Part 1: SAFETY AND PRECAUTIONS
1 - 1
1. PERSONAL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
1 - 1
1.1 Moving Sections of the Printer
1 - 2
1.2 Ink Stains
1 - 2
1.2.1 Ink path
1 - 3
1.2.2 Ink mist
1 - 4
1.3 Electrically Live Sections of the Printer
1 - 5
2. MACHINE PRECAUTIONS
1 - 5
2.1 Handling BJ Cartridges
1 - 5
2.1.1 Unpacking BJ cartridges
1 - 6
2.1.2 Protecting BJ cartridges
1 - 7
2.1.3 Turing the printer ON/OFF
1 - 7
2.1.4 When not using the printer
1 - 7
2.1.5 Ink electroconductivity
1 - 8
2.2 Handling the Ink Tanks
1 - 8
2.2.1 Unpacking the ink tanks
1 - 8
2.2.2 Protecting the ink tanks
1 - 9
2.3 Handling the Printer
1 - 9
2.3.1 Spurs
1 - 9
2.3.2 Encoder
1 -10
2.3.3 Paper feed roller unit
1 -10
2.3.4 Purge motor
1 -11
2.3.5 Precautions to prevent damage from static electricity
1 -12
2.3.6 Ink leakage/ink dry-up precautions
1 -12
2.3.7 Precautions when carrying the printer
1 -13
3. PRECAUTIONS FOR SERVICE
1 -13
3.1 Precautions Concerning Memory Data
1 -14
3.2 Special Settings
1 -15
3.3 Precautions to Prevent Damage from Static Electricity
1 -16
3.4 Precautions for Disassembly/Assembly
1 -16
3.4.1 Disassembly prohibited parts
1 -16
3.4.2 Precautions for disassembly/assembly
1 -17
3.5 Self-diagnostic Functions
Part 2: PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
2 - 1
1. PRODUCT OUTLINE
2 - 1
1.1 Product Outline
2 - 2
1.2 Features
2 - 3
1.3 BJ Cartridges
2 - 3
1.3.1 Black BJ cartridge [BC-80]
2 - 3
1.3.2 Color BJ cartridge [BC-81]
2 - 4
1.3.3 Photo BJ cartridge [BC-82 Photo]
2 - 5
1.3.4 Relationship between BJ cartridges and printing mode
2 - 6
1.4 BJ Cartridge Container SB-80
2 - 7
1.5 Consumables
2 - 7
1.5.1 BJ cartridge
2 - 7
1.5.2 Ink tank
2 - 8
2. SPECIFICATIONS
2 - 8
2.1 General Specifications
2 -11
2.2 Paper Specifications
2 -11
2.2.1 Paper types
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2 -12
2.2.2 Printing area
2 -13
2.3 Interface Specifications
2 -13
2.3.1 Parallel interface
2 -19
2.3.2 Serial interface
Part 3: OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
3 - 1
1. PRINTER SETUP
3 - 1
1.1 Unpacking
3 - 3
1.2 Installation Space
3 - 4
1.3 Installation Procedure
3 - 4
1.3.1 Connecting the interface cable
3 - 4
1.3.2 Connecting the power supply
3 - 5
1.3.3 Installing BJ cartridges
3 - 8
1.3.4 Replacing ink tanks
3 - 9
1.3.5 BJ cartridge container SB-80
3 -10
1.4 Turning the Printer ON/OFF
3 -10
1.4.1 Turning the printer on
3 -10
1.4.2 Turning the printer off
3 -11
1.5 Paper Settings
3 -13
1.6 Names and Functions of Parts
3 -15
2. TRANSPORTING THE PRINTER
3 -15
2.1 Transporting the Printer
3 -16
2.2 Capping Lock/Unlock
3 -17
3. PRINTER SERVICING FUNCTIONS
3 -17
3.1 Error Indications
3 -17
3.1.1 Operator call
3 -18
3.1.2 Service call
3 -18
3.2 Warning Display
3 -19
3.3 Function Settings
3 -19
3.3.1 Maintenance settable items
3 -21
3.3.2 Custom setting
3 -23
3.4 Control Buttons
3 -23
3.4.1 Cleaning the BJ cartridges
3 -24
3.4.2 Service mode
3 -25
3.5 Self Test Print (Nozzle Check Pattern)
3 -27
3.6 EEPROM
3 -27
3.6.1 Continued use of EEPROM memory data
3 -27
3.6.2 Resetting the EEPROM
3 -28
3.6.3 EEPROM list print
3 -29
3.6.4 Destination setting
Part 4: TECHNICAL REFERENCE
4 - 1
1. OVERVIEW
4 - 1
1.1 Printer Block Diagram
4 - 2
1.2 Initial Flowchart
4 - 5
1.3 Power OFF Operation Flow
4 - 6
1.4 Print Signal Flow
4 - 7
1.5 BJ Cartridge Drive
4 - 7
1.5.1 Printing drive control
4 - 8
2. FIRMWARE
4 - 8
2.1 Interface
4 - 8
2.1.1 Nibble mode
4 - 9
2.1.2 ECP mode
III

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