5Caring for Your Printer

1.Load the upper media tray with sheets of clean, high-grade paper.

2.When the printer is on and the Ready message or the printer’s name appears in the front panel, press the Clean button. The printer displays the first selection in the menu:

Clean:Light Stripes

<---- Clean Test

3.Press the left arrow (<---)button until the following front panel message appears:

Clean:Ink Smears

<---- Clean Test

4.Press the Clean button. The printer displays the following front panel message:

Warming Up

Cancel

5.After a short delay during the warm-up period, the printer begins an automatic sequence of feeding 10 clean sheets of paper from the upper media tray.

A front panel message indicates the number of sheets remaining to be fed. For example:

Cleaning:Using 10 Sheets

6.When the cleaning sequence is complete, inspect the last sheet of paper fed through the printer. If it is not clean, repeat the cleaning sequence by pressing the Clean button once again.

7.Return the printer to normal operation by pressing the Exit button.

If the ink smear problem persists after running clean sheets of paper through the paper path, refer to the following two procedures for directions on cleaning paper feed rollers and the paper exit path.

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