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Maintenance Tasks
Introduction
Regular maintenance is very important to ensure the best image quality from your printer. In
order to help you remember and maintain the proper schedule, the Maintenance Tasks module
provides a list of the important tasks you must perform and indicates when you must do them.
After you perform each task, click the Done button and the printer will record that and then
calculate when the task must be performed again. At that time you will be reminded that the
particular maintenance task is due. It is possible to postpone the task for a short time but the
printer will remind you with a message periodically until the task is completed. Although you can
select Done or Postpone even if the task is not complete, it is in your best interest to follow the
recommended schedule. If you do not follow the maintenance schedule, image quality will
decrease and printhead replacement frequency and costs will increase.
NOTE
If you have not performed your daily Automatic Printhead Maintenance, a dialog box appears
with a query to Perform or Postpone this task. If you choose to perform Automatic Printhead
Maintenance that screen will appear and the ink temperature is displayed. When have selected
the ink colors that need maintenance and a Short or Long Purge, and if the ink is at jetting
temperature, you can perform Automatic Printhead Maintenance.
The Importance of Maintenance
Daily printhead maintenance and ongoing care and cleaning of your printer is essential to good
image quality.
• Improper or infrequent printhead maintenance is one of the main factors contributing to
premature printhead failures.
• Improper printhead maintenance causes banding and reduces image quality.
• Pay attention to the conditions of the workplace environment as detailed in the Site
Preparation Guide
• Use the cleaning methods and the maintenance schedule documented in this User guide.
Maintenance Tasks
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