3. Maintenance
Agitate the ink
• Hold the cartridge as shown in Figure 1.
• Hold the white ink cartridge with the ink supply port face up.
• Shake the ink cartridge by tilting it side to side at 45°degree angles, as shown below.
• Shake the cartridge for 50 seconds at a speed of 2 back-and-forth shakes per second.
IMPORTANT! Shaking ink cartridges in other ways may cause nozzle clogging or affect the print
quality when the ink cartridge is low on ink.
Figure 1
After agitating the ink, wipe off any ink stains on the ink supply port
Count Manually (at a button)
The printer will prompt you every 12 hours with the following message:
Pull out each white cartridge, then "Start" button is displayed for each target cartridge.
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Press "Start", button changes to "Counting" and counter will start to decrease.
When you insert the cartridge before counter reaches 0, the counter will pause, button will change to
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"Resume".
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If you remove the cartridge again and press "Resume", timer will restart, and button will return to
"Counting".
All the counters reach 0, then the printer will display the following message:
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