Chapter 8

Cleaning Your Printer

The following sections take you through the process of cleaning the print cartridge printheads.

To clean the printheads

Run CLEAN CAR. to clean the printheads.

A test line prints so that you can see if the cleaning process was successful.

Clean the printheads:

When you suspect the printheads are clogged.

When characters are not printing completely.

1)Press the Setup button until CARTRIDGE appears in the display.

2)Press ➛or ❿until CLEAN CAR. appears in the second row of the display.

3)Press the Enter/Select button. The printer prints the printheads cleaning test page.

4)If the printheads cleaning test page still contains broken lines, see ‘To wipe the

printheads’ on page 8-5.

[CARTRIDGE] CHANGE CAR.

[CARTRIDGE] CLEAN CAR.

PRINTING ■■■

The printer returns to Ready Mode after the test page.

8-4Troubleshooting

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Lexmark Z82 manual Leaning Your Printer, Clean the printheads

Z82 specifications

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