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74 Maintaining Your Printer
Running the Head Cleaning Utility
1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and the red ink light is off.
(If the ink light is flashing or on, you need to replace a cartridge; see page 76
for details.)
2. Windows: Right-click the printer icon on your taskbar (in the lower right
corner of your screen). Select
Head Cleaning.
Macintosh OS 8.6 to 9.x: Open the File menu and choose Page Setup or Print.
Click the Utility button, then click the Head Cleaning button.
Macintosh OS X: Open the Applications folder and select EPSON Printer
Utility
. Select SP 900 in the printer list, click OK, and select Head Cleaning.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print head.
Cleaning takes about 45 seconds. The printer makes noise and the green
power light flashes.
Caution: Never turn off the printer while the green power light is flashing,
unless the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.
4. When the green power light stops flashing, make sure paper is loaded in the
printer, then do the following:
Windows: Click Print nozzle check pattern. Then click Print.
Macintosh: Click Confirmation, then click Next.