154Maintaining and Transporting the Printer

The software checks the amount of ink in the printer and maintenance tank(s) and displays one of these windows:

Tip: On a Macintosh, you can also run maintenance utilities by clicking the Utility button in the print job window or the icon on the printer settings screen.

If you added a shortcut icon for your printer to the Windows taskbar, you can right-click it and select any utility you want to run. See

page 150 to add the icon.

Checking and Cleaning the Print Head

If your printed image shows a color shift or horizontal lines, you should check the print head to see if any nozzles are clogged or deflected. If necessary, you can run a cleaning cycle to clear the nozzles.

You can also turn on Auto Nozzle Check from the printer’s control panel. The printer will then check the nozzles periodically or before each print job and clean them if necessary.

Running the Nozzle Check and Head Cleaning Utilities

Follow these steps to use your printer software to check the print head nozzles and clean them if necessary:

1.Make sure paper is loaded in the printer.

2.Do one of the following to access the printer utilities:

•Mac OS X: Open the EPSON Printer Utility3 in your

Applications folder. Select your printer and click OK.

•Windows Vista: Click , select Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound, and click Printers. Right-click the icon for your printer and select Printing Preferences. Click the Utility tab.