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iii Maintenance
Cleaning Main Unit
When wiping the main unit with a wet cloth, use a soft, moistened and tightly-squeezed cloth. The main
unit may break down if the moisture remains on it.
Do not use chemicals such as benzine or thinner. Doing so may damage the paint or coating on plastic
parts.
Outside the Main Unit
Exterior
1.
Wipe the exterior with a soft, moistened, and tightly-squeezed cloth.
When stains cannot be removed easily, wipe them lightly with the soft cloth slightly moistened with a thin
neutral detergent solution.
2.
Wipe the moisture off with a dry soft cloth.
Touch panel display
Wipe the touch panel display lightly with a soft cloth moistened with a neutral detergent or alcohol.
Note
When you moisten a cloth with a neutral detergent or alcohol, make sure that no drips come off the
cloth. When the cloth is heavily soaked with detergent or alcohol, squeeze the cloth lightly before wiping.
Wiping the panel strongly may damage the panel. Wipe lightly.
LED Printhead
When you have replaced the waste toner container or drum cartridge, clean the LED printheads in order to
prevent density and color irregularities from occurring.
1.
Remove the conveyance box.
Refer
For conveyance box removing method, refer to
2.
Slide out the cleaning bar from the back side of the
front cover to clean each LED printhead.
Orient the cleaning bar with the arrow (
↑
) facing up, insert the
cleaning bar until it stops, and then pull it out slowly. Clean each
LED printhead by repeating the back and forth action two to
three times.
3.
Place the cleaning bar back to its original position in the
back side of the front cover.
4.
Return the conveyance box back to its original state.
