Mutoh Spitfire 65/90

October 23, 2006

Important Notes:

Remember that color reproduction is controlled by ICC color profiles, and not by Wasatch software. We have not been able to get these printers into our lab, and therefore we have not been able create any color profiles for them. You should contact your dealer for further support with ICC color profiles, or arrange to produce your own.
Because of lack of access to this printer, Wasatch's service department cannot provide the same level of support that we provide for most other printers. Please rely on your dealer for support of this device.
Mutoh provides a control for "Headspeed" on the front panel of this printer, with the options "Fine" and "Normal". Please note that some print modes may not function correctly if this Headspeed control is set to Fine. We recommend using the Normal setting for this control, especially if you experience problems printing. Please consult your printer's user manual for information on what this control does and how to change the setting using the front panel of your printer.

Instructions for use of this software follows:

Print Mode:

Pressing the Properties button next to the Printer Model window on the Imaging Configurations screen will launch a control panel for this printer.

This page of the properties sheet allows you to select a print mode, the print direction, the number of passes, the dot size, control the cutter, overprint, and time between passes.

Print Mode: Select the ink type and printing resolution
Pass Count: Select pass count / Overlap
Dot Size: Select the size of the dot
Print Direction: Print in both directions (bi) or one direction (uni)
Cutter: Enable or disable paper cutting after the print
Overprint: Overprint controls the number of times the printer prints over the same area. A setting of 2 will double the amount of ink laid down.
Time Between Passes: Time Between Passes allows you to set a drying time between each pass. This is especially useful when printing on film

Advanced Settings:

When you click on Advanced Settings, the following properties page will be displayed:

The Advanced page controls saving images to the hard drive and allows you to select options to fine tune the type of media installed.

Save Image on printer hard drive: Choose whether to enable the hard drive save feature
- Note: There will be a prompt for a file name when the job is spooled to the printer
  The file name may only contain capitol letters (A-Z) and/or numbers (0-9)
Save and print: Saves the image to the hard drive while the image is being spooled to the printer
Save then print: Saves the image to the hard drive and then immediately proceeds to print the saved image off of the hard drive (See note below: uses the same front panel settings as "Save only")
Save only: Saves the image to the hard drive. Printing will be done off of the front panel
- Note: The front panel control for the following commands will have precedence over the driver control when printing from the hard drive
  - Ink Dry Time (On "Heating / Dry Time" tab)
  - Media Thickness and Head Height (On "Advanced Settings" tab)
  - Media Stiffness (On "Advanced Settings" tab)
  - Heater Temperatures (On "Heating / Dry Time" tab)
  - Media Feed Correction (On "Advanced Settings" tab)
  - Media Cut (On "Print Mode" tab)

Use Advanced Settings: Choose whether to disable the advanced settings
Media Stiffness: Will adjust the power of the media vacuum
Media Thickness: Select thickness of the media in mm
Head Height: Set the gap between the platen and the head
Send Feed Correction: Check to send a value
Media Feed Correction: Adjust the amount of feed correction necessary to eliminate micro-banding

Color Separations:

When you click on Color Separations, the following Properties page will be displayed:

If a Monochrome mode is selected, this page allows you to make Color Separations.

Heating / Dry Time

When you click on Heating / Dry Time, the following Properties page will be displayed:

The Heating / Dry Time page allows you to adjust the heater settings.

Drying Time: Sets up ink dry time in units of one second
Check boxes on individual heaters allow one to turn each heater on or off
Adjust heater temperature in degrees centigrade