2.If you have an application running, access the printer settings dialog box as described on page 8 (Windows) or page 13 (Macintosh).
Or, with Windows, click Start, point to Settings, and select Printers.
(Windows 95, 98, or Millenium Edition [Me]), Document Defaults (Windows NT), or Printing Preferences (Windows 2000).
3.Windows: Click the Utility tab.
Macintosh: Click the 
Utility button.
4.On the Utility menu, click the 
Head Cleaning button.
5.Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print head. Cleaning takes about 30 seconds, during which the printer makes some noise and the Ppower light flashes.
Never turn off the printer while the Ppower light is flashing, unless the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.
6.When the Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to confirm the print head nozzles are clean.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click Print nozzle check pattern. Then click Print. The nozzle check pattern prints (see the next section for details).
7.If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps in its dots, click Finish.
If the pattern is missing dots, click Clean to clean the print head again. If you don’t see any improvement after cleaning three or four times, check the solutions in “Print Quality Problems” on page 50. You can also turn the printer off and wait
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