Maintaining Your Printer 33
Maintaining Your Printer
Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R2000 Series working at its best:
■“Checking and Cleaning the Print Head” below
■“Checking and Aligning the Print Head” on page34
■“Checking the Ink Cartridge Status” on page35
■“Replacing Ink Cartridges” on page37
■“Switching Black Ink Types” on page41
■“Cleaning the Rollers” on page42

Checking and Cleaning the Print Head

You can check and clean the print head nozzles automatically using the Auto
Nozzle Check and Cleaning utility in your printer software. It prints a check
pattern that your printer then reads to see if you have any clogged nozzles, which
it then cleans, if necessary.
1. Load a few sheets of plain paper in the sheet feeder (see page 6).
2. Do one of the following:
Windows: Right-click the icon in
the bottom right corner of your screen
(the taskbar) and select Printer
Settings. Open the Utility tab, select
Auto Nozzle Check and Cleaning,
and click OK.
Mac OS X: Open the Applications
folder, open the Epson Software
folder, open the EPSON Printer
Utility4, select SP R2000, and click OK. Then select Auto Nozzle Check
and Cleaning.