When Normal Cleaning Is Not Effective
Powerful Cleaning Method
The print heads are important components that discharge ink. They require periodic and appropriate mainte-
nance. When problems such as dot drop-out are not resolved by medium cleaning (
perform the more forceful "powerful cleaning" to remove clogging from the print heads.
IMPORTANT
Powerful cleaning consumes more ink than medium cleaning, and overly frequent use may damage the print heads themselves. Avoid
performing this operation more than necessary.
Procedure
1.
Load the media.
2.
Press [FUNCTION].
3.
Press [▼], then [▶] to display the screen shown below.
CLEANING
TEST PRINT
4.
Press [ENTER].
A test pattern is printed.
5.
Press [▼] several times to display the screen shown below.
CLEANING
POWERFUL CL.
6.
Press [ENTER] to confirm your entry.
The screen shown below appears, and then cleaning starts. The (approximate) remaining time for the proce-
dure is displayed on the screen. (The display shown below is an example. "01:45" = "1 minute and 45 sec-
onds")
CLEANING...
>>
When finished, the screen shown below appears again.
CLEANING
POWERFUL CL.
7.
Press [▼] several times to display the screen shown below.
CLEANING
TEST PRINT
8.
Press [ENTER].
Perform a printing test again to check whether the dot drop-out and dot displacement have been corrected.
MEMO
• If the problem persists, try performing powerful cleaning again.
• If problems such as dot drop-out and dot displacement persist even after you have performed powerful cleaning several
times, perform "manual cleaning."
P. 202「Manual Cleaning Method」
200
2. Regular Maintenance
01:45
Medium Cleaning Method(P. 199)
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