Pitney Bowes DA700 Printer Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance Cleaning, Print Quality Problems

5 • Printer Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance

Cleaning

The Pitney Bowes DA700/DA750 Ink Jet Printer is designed for trouble-free service with a minimal amount of care. You should schedule regular cleaning of the Feed Rollers, Exit Rollers and Lower Guide.

Caution

Print Quality Problems

Clean print head, cartridge, ink surfaces and covers with plain water only. (Water works best!)

Clean all rubber rollers with the Pitney Bowes Multi-Purpose Cleaning Kit Number 902-0.

Use of any other cleaning solvents will void all warranties.

Keep petroleum based cleaning solvents away from rub- ber or plastic parts. Anything but the recommended Pitney Bowes Cleaning Kit solvent could cause premature break- down of the rubber compound.

The print head performs a self cleaning cycle periodically. If print quality is unacceptable, try the following:

•Adjust the media thickness knob (page 3-18) to see if print quality improves. If the printhead is too high above the envelope, fuzzy printing results. If the knob is adjust- ed too low, envelopes jam or print smears.

•From the Setup Menu, select 3. Purge Printhead. The purging process clears any clogged ink on the print noz- zle. Often this returns the print quality to a normal level. See Appendix A, Control Panel Menus, for information on using this feature.•

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