Maintaining Your All-In-One; Checking The Print Head Nozzles - Epson WorkForce 500 Quick Manual

Maintaining Your All-in-One

Follow the steps here to check and clean the print head, and replace ink cartridges.
To align the print head, if necessary, see the on-screen Epson Information Center.

Checking the Print Head Nozzles

If your printouts are faint or have gaps in them, the print head nozzles may be
clogged. Follow these steps to check the print head nozzles:
1. Load letter-size plain paper in the sheet feeder.
2. Press the
3. Press to select
r
4. Select
Nozzle Check
5. Press x
6. Check the nozzle check pattern that prints to see if there are gaps in the lines.
Nozzles
are clean
Nozzles need
cleaning
7. If there are no gaps, press
If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, press x
See page 33 for details.
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Maintaining Your All-in-One
button.
Setup
Maintenance
and press
.
Start
and press
OK
.
OK
to continue printing.
OK
.
to clean the print head.
Start