Cleaning Your Printer
Cleaning Your Printer
Cleaning the Printheads
You should perform routine maintenance on your printer at regular intervals to maintain top performance, and to avoid print quality and paper feed problems. This section steps you through the process of cleaning the print cartridge printheads.
You can run the printhead test to clean the printheads. A test line prints so you can see if the cleaning process was successful. Use the printhead test:
•When you suspect the printheads are clogged, or
•When characters are not printing completely.
To Run the Printhead Test
1 Make sure paper is loaded in the standard input tray and the following appears on the display:
Ready
If an error message appears, see Chapter 5 in the System Administrator Guide.
2 | Press | or | to enter the menus. |
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3 | Continue to press and release | or | until the | ||
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Tests Menu
Chapter 4: Maintaining the Printer ❖
