Canon 8200 manual Printing a nozzle check pattern

1 Printing a nozzle check pattern

The sensitive contact area of the print head that discharges the ink contains the nozzles. When you see faded or streaked colors and text, the nozzles may not be functioning properly. This can be caused by:

• Clogging which prevents the nozzles from discharging the ink to the paper.

• Misalignment of the print head.

These problems can be confirmed by printing a nozzle check pattern.

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1. Make sure that the printer is switched on, then load a sheet of plain paper into the Sheet Feeder.

• Loading plain paper or High Resolution Paper HR-101

Reference

(P.43)

2. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Printers.

3. Right-click on the Canon BJC-8200icon and select Properties.

4. Click the Maintenance tab and click the (Nozzle Check Pattern) icon.

	• To print a nozzle check pattern with the printer	Click!
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	operation panel, press down and hold the RESUME
	button until you hear two beeps then release it.

5. Read the message and click the OK button. The nozzle check pattern starts to print.

•The BJ Status Monitor opens automatically and closes when printing is completed.

		Click!
6. Read the message and click the OK button.
7. Check the nozzle check pattern.		Click!
• If part of pattern 1 is missing, clean the print head.	1
• If pattern 2 is not smooth, or if pattern 3 is streaked vertically with	A	B	C	D	E
white, align the print head.	2
	3
			F
• Cleaning the print head (P.70)
Reference
• Aligning the print head (P.62)
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