44-8 Maintaining and Transporting the Printer

Transporting the Printer

If you need to ship your printer, you must prepare it for transportation and repack it in the original box. You must also remove the ink cartridges, to avoid the possibility of ink leakage. However, if you are moving the printer only a short distance, for example, from one table to another, you don’t need to remove the cartridges. Be sure to keep the printer level when you move it.

TO TRANSPORT THE PRINTER:

1.Turn on the printer.

2.Remove any paper in the printer and in the paper trays. Press the Eject button to eject any paper that has been fed into the printer.

3.Turn off the printer and make sure the print head is in the home (far right) position, as shown below:

print head

If it’s not, turn the printer back on, wait until the head stops moving and is in the home position, then turn off the printer. After you turn it off, the P Operate light may flash for a while. Do not unplug the power cord until the light goes off.

4.Remove all four of the ink cartridges and store them in separate, resealable plastic bags. Close the ink cartridge clamps and compartment covers.

CAUTION: Don’t remove the ink cartridges when the printer is turned on.