Examining The Nozzle Check Pattern - Epson PowerLite 83+ Printer Basics Manual

2. If you have an application running, access the printer settings dialog box as
described on page 6 (Windows) or page 10 (Macintosh).
Or, with Windows, click
your
EPSON Stylus COLOR 880
select
Properties
Windows NT, or
3. Windows: Click the
Macintosh: Click the
4. On the Utility menu, click the
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.
6. When the Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to confirm the print
head nozzles are clean and reset the cleaning cycle.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click
Then click
7. If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps in its dots, click
If the pattern is missing dots, click
don't see any improvement after cleaning three or four times, check the solutions
in "Problems Getting Good Print Quality" on page 36. You can also turn the
printer off and wait overnight—this allows any dried ink to soften—and then try
cleaning the print head again.

Examining the Nozzle Check Pattern

Examine the nozzle check pattern you print.
Each staggered horizontal and straight vertical
line should be complete, with no gaps in the dot
pattern. If your printout looks okay, you're
done.
If any dots are missing, as shown, clean the print
head again; see page 21 for instructions.
22
Start
in Windows 98 or Windows 95,
Printing Preferences
tab.
Utility
Utility button.
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.
. The nozzle check pattern prints (see below for details).
Next
, point to , then select
Settings
printer icon in the Printers window. Then
in Windows 2000.
Head Cleaning
to clean the print head again. If you
Clean
missing dots
. Right-click
Printers
Document Defaults
button.
Print nozzle check pattern
.
Finish
missing dots
in
.
missing dots