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Maintenance
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Maintenance
Medium/Powerful Cleaning
Important
"Medium" and "powerful" cleaning consume more ink than "normal cleaning," and overly frequent
use may damage the print heads themselves. Avoid using it more than necessary.
When problems such as dot drop-out are not resolved by normal cleaning (P. 54 "Step 5 : Printing Tests and
Normal Cleaning"), perform the more forceful "medium cleaning" to remove clogging from the print heads. If
this still does not resolve the problem, try the even more forceful "powerful cleaning."
Procedure
A
Perform a printing test.
"
P. 54 "Step 5 : Printing Tests and Normal Cleaning"
When the printing test is finished, the screen shown below appears.
Remove the media at this point.
CLEANING
TEST PRINT
B
Press [FUNCTION].
C
Press [ ] once, and then press [ ] several times to display the screen shown below.
When “Medium” is not effective, select “Powerful.”
CLEANING
MEDIUM CL.
CLEANING
POWERFUL CL.
D
Press [ ] to display the screen shown below.
MEDIUM CL.
AB
POWERFULL CL.
AB
E
Check for the group with dot drop-out by viewing the printing-test results.
If the printing-test results are difficult
to interpret
Examine the results from different angles
in a well-lit location. Take advantage of
reflected light to enable visual checking.
Dot drop-out
Group A
Group B
When Normal Cleaning Is Not Effective
