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Using the Head Cleaning Utility, Maintenance and Transportation

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Maintenance and Transportation Caution: 2 Never turn off the printer while the power light is flashing. However, if the light is still flashing after 10 minutes and the print head is not moving or making noise, you may turn off the printer. Using the Head Cleaning Utility Follow these steps to run the utility: * ) 1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and the black and color ink out lights are off. 2. Access the Main printer settings dialog box as described in Chapter 1. 3. Click the Utility tab. You see the Utility menu. 4. Click the Head Cleaning icon. 5. Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print heads. Cleaning each head takes about two minutes, 2during which the printer makes some noise and the power light flashes. 2 When the power light stops flashing, you need to run a nozzle check to check the print quality and reset the cleaning cycle. 6. Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click Print nozzle check pattern. See page 5-4 for instructions on examining the nozzle check pattern. If your print quality has not improved, repeat the steps above. If you don't notice any improvement after doing this four or five times, check the print quality solutions in Chapter 6, "Troubleshooting." 5-2

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Maintenance and Transportation
5-2
Using the Head Cleaning Utility
Follow these steps to run the utility:
1.
Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and
the black and
color ink out lights are off.
2.
Access the Main printer settings dialog box as described
in Chapter 1.
3.
Click the
Utility
tab. You see the Utility menu.
4.
Click the
Head Cleaning
icon.
5.
Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print
heads. Cleaning each head takes about two minutes,
during which the printer makes some noise and the
power light flashes.
When the
power light stops flashing, you need to run a
nozzle check to check the print quality and reset the
cleaning cycle.
6.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click
Print
nozzle check pattern
. See page 5-4 for instructions on
examining the nozzle check pattern.
If your print quality has not improved, repeat the steps above.
If you don’t notice any improvement after doing this four
or five times, check the print quality solutions in Chapter 6,
“Troubleshooting.”
Caution:
Never turn off the printer
while the
power light is
flashing. However, if the
light is still flashing after 10
minutes and the print head is
not moving or making noise,
you may turn off the printer.