Head Angular Adjustment - Epson Stylus PHOTO 950 Service Manual

EPSON Stylus PHOTO 950

5.2.5 Head Angular Adjustment.

This section describes how to perform head angle adjustment. Perform this operation
under the following conditions:
1. Printhead removal or replacing.
2. CR guide shaft removal or replacing.
3. Moving the printhead angle adjust lever.
NOTE: The adjustment procedure is completely different from previous models,
so that please perfectly accede to the procedure mentioned in this section.
NOTE: Adjust the printhead angle without upper housing.
NOTE: When you check the head angle printing, perform it with exclusive paper
such as "Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper" or "Glossy Photo Paper". If you
use normal plain paper, you cannot judge and adjust the head angle
correctly.
1. After replacing or once removing the printhead, install the new printhead or once
removed printhead on the carriage unit. And do not attach the upper housing.
2. Setup the adjustment program. (Refer to Section 5.2.1.)
3. Select "Head angular". Following screen appears.
Figure 5-12. "Head Angular adjustment" Initial Screen
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4. Select "Print the head angular pattern" and press "OK". Printer will start printing
with current head angle setting.
5. Once the printing completes, the program screen changes as follows.
Figure 5-13. "Head Angular adjustment" Printing Completes Screen
6. Now, you can see the following printing pattern. And printer is latching its printed
paper.
Head Angular (BK-M)
Figure 5-14. "Head Angular adjustment" Check Pattern
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