16 Sep A Step-by-Step Guide to Calibrate Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 Sensors

Calibrating your Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 sensors is essential for ensuring our high-quality roll labels work properly with your Epson ColorWorks C6000 or C6500.
This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process step-by-step, making it especially easy if you just purchased a Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 printer.

Why Calibration is Important

Calibration ensures that your printer correctly detects the gaps or blackmarks on your media, which is crucial for accurate printing and media handling.
Proper calibration can prevent printer errors, reduce media wastage, and ensure consistent prints.

Step 1: Prepare Your Printer

Before you begin the calibration process, make sure your printer is properly set up and ready to use. Follow these steps to prepare your printer:

1. Power On: Ensure your Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 printer is powered on and connected to your computer.
2. Cancel Any Print Jobs in Queue: Cancel all print jobs on the printer by clicking the cancel button and then selecting all label formats.
3. Setting Media Type to Matte Paper: Go to Media Settings then Media Type and select Matte Paper.  We notice if this step was skipped, sometimes users are not able to properly calibrate their printers.

Please note if you are calibrating for the gap sensor on the Epson ColorWorks C6000/6500, ensure the adjustable gap sensor adjustments are correctly positioned to detect the label.  If the sensors are not both in the same position or not lined up with the label this can cause detection errors.

1. Load Media: Load the media you intend to use for calibration.  After this, you will close the lid but keep the printer in pause mode.

Step 2: Setting Media Detect & Accessing the Calibration Option

Before you calibrate the printer, you must tell the printer which label detection method it will use while running the calibration. Otherwise, you may be calibrating a gap sensor instead of a timing mark sensor or vice versa.

Setting Gap/Blackmark Detection for Calibration:

1. Click Menu, Media Setting & Media Detect: On the printer’s screen click menu, select media setting and then media detect.  Here, you will find the three options: Gap, Blackmark, or Continuous.
2. Select Gap or Blackmark:  Select the Gap or Blackmark option depending on if you are wanting to calibrate the gap sensor or the blackmark sensor.
3. Go Back Home: Click the Home Button on the Epson to return to the Home Page.
4. Click Menu, Maintenance, & Calibration:  Select the menu button, scroll down to click Maintenance option and finally select Calibration.
5. Select Media Detect: Select Media Detect option.  Epson printers have 3 different options for calibration; however, we have found the best option will always be to choose the Media Detect Option.

Step 3: Printer Performs the Calibration & Test Print

At this point, the printer will feed your label through the web path and read the values of your label’s timing mark or gap. It will use those values to properly adjust the threshold of the sensors to allow for proper label detection.
You may get a message on screen if the printer calibrates successfully or unsuccessfully.

1. Test Print on Your Labels: After calibration is completed successfully, it is essential to try printing on that label.  This will ensure the sensors are correctly calibrated and help you verify the calibration starts and stop at the correct positions.
2. Check Print Position Offsets: Even after calibration you may need to adjust the print position offsets to perfectly center your prints on the labels.

Calibrating the gap/blackmark sensor on your Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 is a straightforward process that can help improve your printer’s ability to detect gaps or blackmarks.  By following this guide, you can ensure our high-quality roll labels work in your Epson ColorWorks C6000/C6500 printer, print accurately and reduce media wastage per job.