Maintaining Your Printer 35
Maintaining Your Printer
Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R3000 Series working at its best:
■“Checking and Cleaning the Print Head” below
■“Checking and Aligning the Print Head” on page37
■“Checking the Ink Cartridge Status” on page37
■“Replacing Ink Cartridges” on page39
■“Switching Black Ink Types” on page43
■“Cleaning the Rollers” on page45

Checking and Cleaning the Print Head

If your printouts are faint or have gaps in them, some of the nozzles in the print
head may be clogged or ink may be running low in one or more of the ink
cartridges. Follow the steps below to check the print head nozzles.
1. Load a few sheets of plain paper.
2. Press OK to open the menu screen.
3. Select Setup, select Maintenance, then select Nozzle Check.
4. Press OK to print a nozzle check pattern.
5. Check the nozzle check pattern that prints to see if there are gaps in the lines.
6. If there are no gaps, the print head is clean. Select Finish Nozzle Check to
continue printing.
If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, select Head Cleaning (see page 36).
Nozzles are clean Nozzles need cleaning