Maintaining the printer

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Maintaining the printer

Maintaining ink cartridges

In addition to the following tasks that you can perform, your printer performs an automatic maintenance cycle every week if it is plugged into a properly grounded, working electrical outlet. It will briefly come out of Sleep mode or will temporarily turn on if it is turned off.

Checking ink levels

Using the printer control panel

From the printer control panel, navigate to:

> Setup > OK >Maintenance > OK > Check Ink Levels > OK

Using the printer software

For Windows users

1Click or Start.

2Click All Programs or Programs, and then select the printer program folder from the list.

3Navigate to:

Printer Home > select your printer > Maintenance tab > Supplies Status

For Macintosh users

1From the Apple menu, navigate to:

System Preferences > Print & Fax > select your printer

2Click Options & Supplies or Print Queue.

3Click Supply Levels.

Aligning the printhead

If the characters or lines on your printed image appear jagged or wavy, then you may need to align the printhead.

1Load plain paper.

2From the printer control panel, navigate to:

> Setup > OK >Maintenance > OK > Align Printer > OK

An alignment page prints.

Note: Do not remove the alignment page until printing is finished.

If you aligned the cartridges to improve print quality, then print your document again. If print quality has not improved, then clean the printhead nozzles.

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Lexmark 40E, S410 manual Maintaining the printer, Maintaining ink cartridges, Checking ink levels, Aligning the printhead

40E, S410 specifications

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