EPSON Stylus COLOR 900N

3.Make sure the printer is turned on and not printing, then open the printer cover.

4.Press the E load/eject button and hold it down for three

seconds until the print head moves to the left to the black ink cartridge replacement position and the Ppower light begins flashing.

5.If you need to replace only the color ink cartridge, press the E load/eject button again until the print head moves to the color ink cartridge replacement position.

If the print head moves to the home position instead of the color ink cartridge replacement position, try holding down the E load/eject button for three seconds until the print head moves to the black ink cartridge replacement position; then press the E load/eject button for half a second to move the print head to the color ink cartridge replacement position.

10.Press the E load/eject button. The print head moves to the color ink cartridge replacement position. If you need to replace the color ink cartridge, repeat steps 6 through 9. Then continue with step 11.

11.Press the E load/eject button again and close the printer cover.

The printer moves the print head and begins charging the ink delivery system. The P power light flashes and the printer makes various sounds.

Charging takes about one minute. When it’s finished, the
Ppower light stops flashing and stays on.

Never turn off the printer while the P power light is flashing, unless the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.

To avoid damaging the printer, never move the print head by hand. Don’t open the clamp or remove a cartridge except to replace it with a new one. Once you remove a cartridge, you can’t reuse it, even if it contains ink.

6.Pull up the ink cartridge clamp. The cartridge rises up from its holder.
7.Lift the cartridge out of the printer and dispose of it carefully.

If ink gets on your hands, wash them thoroughly with soap and water. If ink gets into your eyes, flush them immediately with water.

8.Lower the new ink cartridge into its holder with the label facing up and toward the back of the printer.

9. Press down the ink cartridge clamp until it locks in place.
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Cleaning the Print Head

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

Cleaning the print head uses ink, so clean it only if print quality declines. You can clean the print head in either of the following ways:

❏Using the Head Cleaning utility in your printer software (when the printer is connected to a local port, not over a network)

❏Using the printer’s control panel buttons

Always wait until your document has finished printing before cleaning the print head.

Don’t use any cleaning sheets included with special media; they may jam inside the printer.

Using the Head Cleaning Utility

Follow these steps to run the Head Cleaning utility:

1.Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and both the B black and A color ink out lights are off.

2.Access the printer settings dialog box.
3.Click the Utility tab (Windows) or the Utility icon (Macintosh).
4.On the Utility menu, click the Head Cleaning icon.
5.Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print

head. Cleaning takes a little over a minute, during which the printer makes some noise and the P power light flashes.

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