Using The Printer Control Panel - Epson Stylus Color 640 User Manual

Caution:
Never turn off the
printer while the
P power light is
flashing, unless the
printer hasn't moved
or made any noise for
more than 5 minutes.
Maintenance and Transportation
6 Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click Print nozzle
check pattern. Then click Next. See
Check Pattern for instructions on examining the nozzle check
pattern.
7 If the pattern looks okay, click Finish to close the Nozzle Check
dialog box. If the pattern is missing dots, click Clean to clean
the print head again.
If you don't notice any improvement after doing this three or four
times, see Improving Print

Using the Printer Control Panel

Follow these steps to clean the print head:
1 Make sure the printer is turned on and not printing, and that the
B black and A color ink out lights are off. If either ink out light is
on, you must replace the ink cartridge before cleaning the print
head.
2 Press the R cleaning button and hold it down for three
seconds. Cleaning takes about one minute, during which the
printer makes some noise and the Ppower light flashes.
After the cleaning cycle is complete and the Ppower light stops
flashing, you need to confirm that the print head nozzles are
clean and reset the printer's cleaning cycle. You can do this by
printing a page and or running a nozzle check (see
Head Cleaning Utility).
Examining the Nozzle
Quality.
Using the
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