HP 0706124 REV B manual Printing Prime Bars, Maintenance interval as needed

Printing Prime Bars

Maintenance interval: as needed.

To keep the printhead jets firing properly, you can print solid blocks of ink from each printhead. By inspecting these prime bars for blank bands, you can also do a quick check for nonfir- ing and deflected jets. Based on this quick test, you may want to proceed to more detailed jet tests (see Chapter 4, Calibrating the Printer, for instructions).

1.From the control panel Front Page screen, press the Prime Bars key.

2.Choose Quick Prime Bars or Detailed Prime Bars.

Choose Quick Prime Bars for most primes, or Detailed Prime Bars when you want to locate individual missing jets that AutoSet may have missed, so you can map them manually under Calibrate Printer - Manual Calibrations - Manual Jet Mapping (see “Manual Jet Mapping” on page 4-16 for instructions).

The control panel displays a prompt asking you to enter the total width of the prime bar pattern you wish to print.

3.Enter a width for the prime bar pattern by pressing the ￿ and ￿ keys.

4.Press the ￿ (Proceed) key to continue.

The printer prints the prime bar pattern.

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