EPSON Stylus COLOR 500
c Caution:
You must remove the yellow tape seal from the top of each cartridge; leaving the tape on will permanently damage them. However, do not remove the tape seal from the bottom of the cartridge; ink will leak out.
6.Lower the cartridges into their holders with the labels facing up and the arrow on the top pointing toward the back of the printer. The color cartridge, which is larger, goes on the right; the black ink cartridge on the left.
After you install the ink cartridges, the printer charges the ink delivery system. This takes about two minutes, and the Power light flashes until the operation is done.
c Caution:
Never turn off the printer when the Power light flashes.
9.Make sure the Power light is no longer flashing, then close the printer cover.
To maintain optimum print quality, the printer periodically performs a cleaning operation. You may notice the cleaning cycle being performed when the printer has been on for awhile without being used or when you turn it on after it has been off for awhile.
Be sure to install both ink cartridges. The printer will not work if only one cartridge is installed.
7.Push down the ink cartridge clamps until they lock in place.
Loading Plain Paper
You can load up to 100 sheets of plain paper. Always load plain paper with the printable surface facing up. The printable surface is marked with an arrow on most paper packaging.
1.Lower the output tray at the front of the printer and slide out the extension.
2.Before you load paper, make sure that the paper thickness lever, which controls the distance between the paper and the printer carriage, is set correctly. If necessary, move the lever to the plain paper setting.
thick paper setting
plain paper setting
c Caution:
Once you install the ink cartridges, do not open the clamps or remove the cartridges except to replace them with new ones. Once you remove a cartridge, do not reuse it. Reusing a cartridge that has been removed may damage the print head.
8.Press the Load/Eject button again to return the print head to its home position. (Even if you do not press Load/Eject, the print head moves back to its home position about
30 seconds after you close the clamps.)
3.If you are going to load long paper (for example, legal size paper), pull up the paper support extension.
paper support extension
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