4Press u or d to highlight Auto Cleaning, then press OK. You see a confirmation screen:

6Check the pattern to see if there are any gaps in the lines.

5Press OK again to clean the print head. Cleaning takes about 60 seconds. PictureMate makes some noise and you see a Cleaning message.

When cleaning is complete, PictureMate prints a nozzle check pattern.

Okay

Needs cleaning

If the pattern is okay, press Yes to finish.

If the pattern has gaps, press No to clean the print head again. You may need to clean it two or three times before the nozzles are clean.

If you don’t see any improvement after cleaning three times, see “Print Quality Problems” on page 65.

Note: You can run a nozzle check before you clean the print head. Follow steps 1 through 3 on page 60. Then select Nozzle Check.

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