Chapter 3
Maintenance
Instructions in this chapter tell you how to do the following to
maintain and care for your printer:
❑
Clean the print heads
❑
Replace the ink cartridges
❑
Clean the printer
❑
Transport the printer
❑
Calibrate the printer when printing from DOS.
Cleaning the Print Heads
The printer periodically cleans its print heads automatically, so
normally you should not need to manually activate a cleaning
cycle. However, the ink nozzles in the print head may become
clogged occasionally reducing the print quality. If this happens,
you can run a cleaning cycle to clear the nozzles.
You can clean one or both print heads (if the optional color
print head is installed). Each cleaning cycle takes about one
minute. During the cleaning cycle, the carriage moves back and
forth and you can hear the printer recharging the print heads.
The
Pause
light flashes throughout the cleaning cycle and then
stays on when the cycle is finished.
To clean the black print head:
1. Make sure the printer is on and press the
Pause
button.
2. Hold down the
Alt
button and press
LF/FF
. The cleaning
cycle begins.
3. Press the
Pause
button to resume printing.
Maintenance
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