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3. Open the service door to access the carriage over the service station. CAUTION: Wear protective gloves, such as latex, to protect your hands from being stained with ink. CAUTION: Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from ink and head flush that may splash into your eyes. Figure 10-5 Reaching the printheads through the access door 4. Saturate a lint-free cloth with printhead flush solution. 5. For each color, press a clean portion of the cloth with two fingers, on one printhead, and draw the cloth across the printheads toward you (see the following figure). NOTE: To avoid pushing debris into the printhead orifice, make sure each wipe is done with a clean area of the cloth. The cloth should be saturated with head flush. Figure 10-6 Wiping printheads 6. Clean the bottom of the pen plate (see the previous picture) using a lint-free cloth saturated with head flush. 7. To reset the maintenance counter for this task and complete the procedure, press Proceed. 8. Select Ink> Purge from the control panel. 9. Select Ink> Check Jet Health from the control panel upon purge completion. 10. Examine the jet health pattern for missing jets. If a printhead has missing jet, repeat steps 1 through 9. 80 Chapter 10 User cleaning ENWW

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3.
Open the service door to access the carriage over the service station.
CAUTION:
Wear protective gloves, such as latex, to protect your hands from being stained with ink.
CAUTION:
Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from ink and head flush that may splash into your
eyes.
Figure 10-5
Reaching the printheads through the access door
4.
Saturate a lint-free cloth with printhead flush solution.
5.
For each color, press a clean portion of the cloth with two fingers, on one printhead, and draw the cloth
across the printheads toward you (see the following figure).
NOTE:
To avoid pushing debris into the printhead orifice, make sure each wipe is done with a clean
area of the cloth. The cloth should be saturated with head flush.
Figure 10-6
Wiping printheads
6.
Clean the bottom of the pen plate (see the previous picture) using a lint-free cloth saturated with head
flush.
7.
To reset the maintenance counter for this task and complete the procedure, press
Proceed
.
8.
Select
Ink> Purge
from the control panel.
9.
Select
Ink> Check Jet Health
from the control panel upon purge completion.
10.
Examine the jet health pattern for missing jets. If a printhead has missing jet, repeat steps 1 through 9.
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Chapter 10
User cleaning
ENWW