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11-6 Maintenance Chapter 11
Maintaining the printhead
After you have printed the nozzle check pattern and checked the state of the nozzle, clean
the printhead and align it.
NOTE
•Before doing the following, open the scanning unit, press “PUSH” on the ink tanks and check that they
are securely inserted. Check how much ink is left and if there is none, replace the ink tank ( p. 11-4).
Flowchart of printhead maintenance
NOTE
• If the problem is still not solved
If you have followed steps 1 to 3 above and there is no improvement, the printhead may be damaged.
Contact the Canon Customer Care Center.
The ink is not coming out correctly.
If there is no improvement.
The printhead is misaligned.
Print the nozzle check pattern ( p. 11-7).
This pattern allows you to check if the ink is coming out of the printhead nozzles
correctly and if the printhead is aligned.
Perform normal printhead cleaning
(<HEAD CLEANING> setting) ( p. 11-7).
Perform deep printhead cleaning (<HEAD
REFRESHING> setting) ( p. 11-7).
Align the printhead ( p. 11-8).
Step 1
Step 2 Step 2
Step 3