1) Drain ink. Refer to "Draining Ink" in "Precautions about Disassembly/Reassembly" in "Disassembly/Reassembly".
2) Unlock the carriage unit. Refer to "Disassembly/Reassembly > Points to Note on Disassembly and Reassembly > Opening the Cap/Moving the Wiper Unit".
3) Remove the rear upper cover, front cover, and rear cover.
4) Move the carriage to the position where there is a notch [1] at the front of the platen as shown in the figure.
5) Remove the printhead.
6) Open the tube guide [1] an angle of 90 degrees frontward, and then remove the tube guide [1] together with the ink tube from the carriage.
Remove the ink tube [2] from the carriage guide, and then remove one spring [3] and two hooks [4] to remove the joint base [5] together with the printhead fixer