Chapter 6: Maintaining and Transporting the Printer

Your EPSON Stylus Pro 5500 requires very little maintenance to keep working at its best. This chapter describes the following routine procedures:

•Running a cleaning cycle

•Running a printer operation check

•Replacing ink cartridges

•Aligning the print head

•Running the Speed & Progress utility (Windows only)

•Cleaning the paper paths

•Cleaning the printer

•Transporting the printer

Caution

When you don’t turn on your printer for a long time, the print quality can decline. It’s a good idea to turn on your printer at least once a month to maintain good print quality.

Running a Cleaning Cycle

If your printed image is unexpectedly light or faint or dots are missing from the image, you may need to run a cleaning cycle. This unclogs the print head nozzles so they can deliver ink properly.

The cleaning cycle uses ink, so you should run it only if print quality declines. You can run a printer check or the Nozzle Check utility to determine if the cleaning cycle has been successful, or if you need to run it again.

There are two ways to run a cleaning cycle:

•Using the Head Cleaning utility in your printer software, as described on page 6-2(not available if you’re accessing the printer over a network)

•Using the printer’s control panel buttons, as described on page 6-3