36 Maintaining Your Printer
Maintaining Your Printer
Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R2880 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 page38
■“Replacing Ink Cartridges” on page40
■“Switching Black Ink Cartridge Types” on page44

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 Auto Head
Cleaning.
Mac OS X: Open the Applications
folder, open the EPSON Printer
Utility3, select SP R2880, and click
OK. Then select Auto Nozzle Check
and Cleaning.
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