Epson Stylus Color 980 Printer Basics Manual page 29

Follow these steps to run the Head Cleaning utility:
1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and both the B black and
A color ink out lights are off. (If an ink out light is flashing, replace the ink
cartridge instead.)
2. If you have an application running, access the printer settings dialog box as
described on page 8 (Windows) or page 13 (Macintosh).
Or, with Windows, click
your
EPSON Stylus COLOR 980
select
Properties
Windows 2000).
3. Windows: Click the
Macintosh: Click the
button.
4. On the Utility menu, click the
button.
Cleaning
5. Follow the instructions on the screen
to clean the print head. Cleaning takes
about 30 seconds, during which the
printer makes some noise and the
Ppower light flashes.
Never turn off the printer while the Ppower light is flashing, unless
the printer hasn't moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.
6. When the Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to confirm that the
print head nozzles are clean.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click
(Windows) or
Confirmation
pattern prints (see page 23 for details).
22
, point to
Start
printer icon in the Printers window. Then
(
Document Defaults
tab.
Utility
Utility
Head
(Macintosh). Then click
, then select
Settings
in Windows NT,
Printing Preferences
Head Cleaning
button
Print nozzle check pattern
Next
. Right-click
Printers
. The nozzle check
in