Anatol VOLT Emulator – Anatol’s Aries 2 operating system gives you complete control over your automatic screen printing press in an easy-to-use, intuitive package.

Welcome to Anatol’s all-electric VOLT press simulator! In the following tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get the VOLT press ready for printing in Manual mode, including how to set your off-contact distance, dwell time, print head and flash head parameters, and more. Anatol’s exclusive Aries operating system is designed for maximum user-friendliness – we hope you enjoy giving it a test drive from the comfort of your own home or office!

VOLT Screen Printing Machine

Step 1: Reset

Before you begin printing, you will have to perform the following:

Press the “Reset” button to reset the machine

Resetting the machine is necessary after every error message and after starting the machine or receiving an open safety bar warning

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Step 2: Home

Before you begin printing, you will have to perform the following:

Press the “Home” button to move all servos to the home position:

The press will need to be homed every time the press is started and whenever any malfunction or emergency occurs.

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Step 3: Lock

Before you begin printing, you will have to perform the following:

Pressing the “Lock” button closes, or locks, the indexer:

Be sure to set the bearing on the carousel in the right position so it will fit into the fork on the indexer when the indexer moves into the upright, locked position.

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Step 4: Set Off-Contact Distance

Before you begin printing, you will have to set an off-contact distance. This is the vertical distance separating the top of the pallets from the underside of the screens, measured in hundredths of an inch. This separation is required to lay down a proper ink deposit.

For this example, let's set an off-contact distance of 0.15". Click the Off-Contact button and enter a value of 15 with the keypad.

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Step 5: Set Dwell Time

You can use the Dwell Time function to set a delay between indexes (the rotation of the pallets from station to station) to give you more time to load and unload shirts.

For this example, let's set a dwell time of 2 seconds. Press the Dwell Time button to open the keypad and enter a value of 2.

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Step 6: Open Head 1 Settings

Now let’s set up Head 1 to print 1 stroke (one pass of the flood bar and squeegee):

Press the Head 1 Settings icon to open the head settings window. In the head settings window, we can set all the parameters for the print head.

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Step 7: Activate Head 1

First, we need to turn Head 1 on.

Pressing the Activate Head icon in the top right corner of the head settings window will turn Head 1 on.

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Step 8: Set the Number of Strokes

Now we need to indicate that we want Head 1 to perform 1 flood stroke and 1 print stroke (one pass of the flood bar and squeegee).

Press the “No. of strokes” icon to open the keypad and enter a value of 1. This will tell the machine to perform 1 flood stroke and 1 print stroke on Head 1.

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Step 9: Set the Flood/Print Speed

Next, enter the desired speed of the print carriage as a percentage from 0-100%.

Let's enter 50% for the rear (or print) speed and 50% for the front (or flood) speed. We are telling the print carriage to move the flood bar and squeegee back and forth at 50% speed.

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Step 10: Exit Print Head Settings

Exit the Print Head settings window by pressing the X or anywhere outside the window.

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Step 11: Open Head 2 Settings

Now let's designate Head 2 as a head with a flash cure, so we can flash the layer of ink we will print on Head 1.

Click the Head 2 icon to open the settings window for that head.

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Step 12: Designate Head 2 as a Flash Head

To designate Head 2 as a head with a flash cure, click the Head Type button. Let's designate Head 2 as a head where a quartz flash cure is connected.

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Step 12: Designate Head 2 as a Flash Head

Select QZ flash from the list of head types.

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Step 13: Activate Head 2

Now that we have designated Head 2 as a head with a quartz flash cure connected, we have to activate the head.

Press the power button in the top right corner of the Head Settings window to activate the head

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Step 14: Enter Curing Time

Next we have to set the duration of the flash cure.

For this example, let's enter a flash time of 4 seconds. Press the Drying Time 1 button and enter a value of 4 using the keypad

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Step 15: Enter Curing Power

Now we have to set the curing power, or the intensity of the flash as a percentage from 0-100%.

Keep in mind you can also adjust the intensity on the flash itself. So if the intensity control on the flash is set to 50% and the curing power on the touchscreen is also set to 50%, you will cure at 25% intensity

For this example, let's enter a curing power of 100%. Press the Drying Power button and enter a value of 100% using the keypad.

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Step 16: Exit Head 2 Settings

Press the X or anywhere outside the Head Settings window to exit the window

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Step 17: Set 1 Shirt on the Load Station Icon

Now we have to tell the machine we are ready to load a single shirt.

Press the Load Station icon:

Press the Load Station icon so that 1 shirt displays on the icon. We are indicating that a shirt has been loaded on the pallet at the load station. Now we're ready to print that shirt.

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Step 18: Press Manual Print to Begin Printing

We are now ready to print one stroke on Head 1, on a single shirt using the Manual Print mode.

Press the Manual Print icon and the pallet at the load station will index to Head 1 and print 1 stroke at 50% speed. The machine will stop moving when the print stroke is complete.

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Step 19: Press Manual Print Again to Flash Cure

Press the Manual Print button again to index the shirt to Head 2 and perform the flash cure.

The shirt will be flashed for 4 seconds at 100% intensity.

Thanks for trying Anatol's Aries operating system!