Cleaning the Print Heads

If print quality diminishes, use the printer’s built-in print head cleaning cycle to enable the nozzles to deliver ink properly. You can clean the color and black print heads separately.

To avoid wasting ink, clean the print head only if print quality declines.

1.Make sure the printer is turned on and press the Pause button.

Note:

When cleaning a print head, make sure no paper is in the paper path. Paper loaded in the printer is ejected automatically when you clean a print head.

2.Hold down the Alt button and press Economy/Condensed to clean the color print head.

Hold down the Alt button and press Load/Eject to clean the black print head.

Note:

￿The cleaning cycle takes about one minute. The Pause light flashes throughout the cycle and then stays on when the cleaning cycle is finished.

￿You cannot perform both color and black print head cleaning operations at the same time.

3.Press the Pause button to resume printing.

Note:

If the print quality does not improve after you perform cleaning three times, replace the ink cartridge following the steps shown earlier in this chapter.

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