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34 Maintaining Your Printer
Maintaining Your Printer
Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R1900 Series working at its best:
■ “Checking and Cleaning the Print Head” below
■ “Checking and Aligning the Print Head” on page 35
■ “Checking the Ink Cartridge Status” on page 36
■ “Replacing Ink Cartridges” on page 37
Checking and Cleaning the Print Head
You can check and clean the print head nozzles automatically using the Auto
Nozzle Check and Cleaning utility in your printer software. It prints a check
pattern that your printer then reads to see if you have any clogged nozzles, which it
then cleans, if necessary.
1. Load a few sheets of plain paper in the sheet feeder (see page 6).
2. Do one of the following:
Windows: Right-click the icon in
the bottom right corner of your screen
(the taskbar) and select
Auto Head
Cleaning
.
Macintosh: Open the
Applications
folder, open the
EPSON Printer
Utility2
, select SP R1900, and click
OK. Then select Auto Head
Cleaning
.
3. Click
Start and follow the on-screen instructions to allow the printer to print
and examine the nozzle check pattern. If necessary, the printer cleans the print
head, and may print and check the nozzle check pattern a few times.
If nozzles are still clogged, you see a message telling you to clean the print
head manually. See the on-screen Reference Guide for instructions.