A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean any that are clogged.
4 Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
5 To further improve print quality, try Wiping the print cartridge nozzles and contacts, and then print your document again. If the print quality has not improved, try Cleaning the print cartridge nozzles up to two more times.
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Lexmark Z45

Printer overview

Basic printing

Maintenance 73

Cleaning the print cartridge nozzles

To improve print quality, you may need to clean the print cartridge nozzles. Clean the nozzles when:

Printing ideas

Maintenance

Characters are not printing completely.

White dashes appear in graphics or printed text.

Print is smudged or too dark.

Vertical, straight lines are not smooth.

Colors on print jobs are faded or they differ from the colors on the screen.

Troubleshooting

Notices

Index

Using this

Guide...

To clean the nozzles:

1Load paper. For help, see Load the paper.

2From the Apple menu, choose Control Panels Lexmark Z45 Control Panel.

3On the Cartridges tab, click Clean Print Nozzles.

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Lexmark Z45 manual Cleaning the print cartridge nozzles