42 Maintenance
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Cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles
To improve print quality, you may need to clean the ink cartridge nozzles.
Clean the nozzles when:
• Characters are not printing completely.
• White dashes appear in graphics or printed text.
• Print is smudged or too dark.
• Colors on print jobs are faded or they differ from the colors on the screen.
• Vertical, straight lines are not smooth.
You can use the operator panel or the Dell Printer Solution Center to clean the
nozzles.
A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean the clogged
nozzles.
• Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
• To further improve print quality, try wiping the ink cartridge nozzles
and contacts (refer to your User’s Guide), and then print your
document again.
• If print quality has not improved, try cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles
up to two more times.
Using the operator panel Using the printer software
1Load plain paper in the printer. For
help, see page15.
2Press Options until Cartridges
displays.
3Press + until Clean displays.
4Press Select.
1Load plain paper in the printer. For
help, see page15.
2Open the Dell Printer Solution
Center. For help, see page10.
3Click the Maintenance tab.
4From the Maintenance tab, click
Clean to fix horizontal streaks.
5Click Print.