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Maintaining Your Product
Maintaining Your Product
Follow the instructions in this chapter for checking and cleaning the print head
nozzles and replacing ink cartridges. To align the print head, if necessary, see your
online User’s Guide.
Checking the Print Head Nozzles
If your printouts are faint or have gaps in them, some of the nozzles in the print
head may be clogged or ink may be running low in one or more of the ink
cartridges. Follow the steps below to check the print head nozzles.
1. Load letter-size plain paper in the sheet feeder.
2. Press the
Copy/Fax
button, then press
Menu
.
3. Press u or d to select
Maintenance
, then press
OK
.
4. Press u or d to select
Nozzle Check
, then
press the x
Color
button.
5. Check the nozzle check pattern that prints to
see if there are gaps in the lines.
6. If there are no gaps, the print head is clean and you can continue printing.
Press
1
to finish.
If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, press
2
to clean the print head. See
page 35 for details.
Nozzles are clean
Nozzles need cleaning