Turning the Heater On/Off
The Perfect Binder PB-503 has an inner heater to add heat to glue pellets for making perfect-bound books. It requires approximately 20 minutes of warmup time to melt the pellets to be ready for the operation.
Adding heat continuously to glue pellets, however, may deteriorate them if the Perfect Binder PB-503 is kept unoperated.
To prevent the deterioration of glue pellets, the heater of the perfect binder is designed to be turned off automatically in the following condition.
One minute after a perfect binding job is completed.
One minute after completion of the warmup if any operation has not been made on the perfect binder
To Turn on the Heater of the Perfect Binder
Turning on the sub power switch of the main body does not turn on the heater of the perfect binder at the same time to start warming up automatically.
The heater of the perfect binder automatically starts warming up when [Perfect Bind] is selected on the [Output Setting] screen, or when a print job using perfect binder is received.
If you know the time to use the Perfect Binder PB-503 in advance, calculate the timing to turn on the heater with required warm-up time, then manually turn it on by pressing the inner heater switch for the perfect binder [ON] on the [MACHINE] screen.
Press [ON] for the inner heater switch for the perfect binder provided on the [MACHINE] screen to start the heater of the perfect binder warming up. The message right to the inner heater switch for the perfect binder is changed to [PB Shut Off] to [PB Warming Up].
When the Perfect Binder PB-503 become available, this message is changed to [PB Heater].
The heater of the perfect binder can be set to start warming up automatically with the sub power switch turned on. For details, contact your service representative.
Once started, the warmup of the heater is not interrupted even when the Auto Low Power/ Auto Shut Off functions on the main body. Once [Perfect Bind] is selected on the [Output Setting] screen, the heater of the perfect binder does not stop warming up even if the setting is canceled with [Function OFF] pressed on the Perfect Binding screen or with Reset pressed on the control panel. If not using the Perfect Binder PB-503, be sure to turn off the heater by pressing the heater switch of the perfect binder [OFF] on the MACHINE screen.
To Turn off the Heater of the Perfect Binder
When the job using perfect binder is completed, the heater of the perfect binder is automatically turned off in one minute.
The heater is also turned off automatically in one minute if any operation has not been made on the Perfect Binder PB-503 after completion of the warmup.
The heater can be turned off manually by pressing the heater switch for the perfect binder [OFF] on the [MACHINE] screen while warming up or ready for operation.
Pressing the heater switch for the perfect binder [OFF] does not function if any perfect binding jobs are entered.
Service can set the heater not to be turned off automatically after one-minute interval from a job completion. For details, contact your service representative. In this case, the heater is not turned off till the Auto Low Power/Auto Shut Off functions on the main body. Be careful not to allow the glue pellets to deteriorate.