9. Maintenance

Cleaning the Scanning Glasses and Rollers

Any dirt, fingerprints, or other small debris on the scanning glasses will degrade the quality of copies, faxes, and scanned images, and increase scanning time. Clean the document glass and the scanning glass in the auto document feeder regularly as explained below.

Cleaning the scanning glass in the auto document feeder

1 Squeeze the cover release and open

9. Maintenance

the auto document feeder cover. Open the document glass cover.

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2 Wipe the parts indicated in white below (scanning glass, rollers, and white backplate) with a clean cloth.

Make sure that all dirt and stains (such as correcting fluid) are removed. Dirt and stains will cause vertical lines on transmitted images and copies.

If the scanning glass is difficult to clean

If you find it difficult to remove dirt from the scanning glass, you can try moistening the cloth with isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol. Take care that no alcohol gets on the rollers.

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