Manual Priming

Maintenance interval: as needed.

If you discover that an excessive number of jets are out on a printhead (after cleaning or printing the prime bars or other test), you can attempt to recover jets by performing a manual prime.

This procedure requires a special priming bulb, included with the printer. Each prime will expel approximately 1 ml of ink. To keep ink counting as accurate as possible. you will report the number of primes to the printer via the control panel.

Fig. 5-2. Manual prime bulb

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

2.Open the service station access door.

3.Insert the priming bulb into one of the priming access holes in the top cover of the carriage.

Fig. 5-3. Inserting the priming bulb

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Manual Priming