General Printer Maintenance - Ricoh siubli-trans XPRES GXe7700N Instruction Manual

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General Printer Maintenance

 It is advisable to always leave your printer turned on.
 If you are not going to print regularly then perform a nozzle check or send a small test print to the
printer every 2-3 days. This helps to prevent ink from drying on the bottom of the print head.
 NEVER allow the printer to sit with the print head away from the docking station. If the print head is
anywhere other than the docking station (furthest to the right of the printer) then the bottom of the
print head is not being capped off and is open to the air. This will always allow ink to dry on the
bottom of the print head and prevent the nozzles working correctly.
 DO NOT remove the cartridges from the printer unnecessarily. If you are having problems printing,
follow the guidelines in the following page first. Cartridges should only be removed as the LAST resort
as this will introduce air into the system and can make it even more difficult to get the printer working
correctly. This advice is for both cartridge and bulk ink systems.
 NEVER perform huge amounts of continuous head cleans. If a printer is not working within 3-4 head
cleans there is usually something wrong.
 I have actually had customer call me after 'head cleaning 50-60 times without success' – result:
probably a dead printer.
 Ricoh printers are fitted with a counter, which calculates how much ink it thinks has been poured into
the waste pad in the bottom of the printer. As a precaution against flooding the printer with
excessive cleaning (result- funny burning smell and dead printer), the printers lights will flash
indicating a maintenance required before continuing. This would entail the replacement of the ink
pad in the bottom of the printer and a counter reset. There are ways of resetting the counter but are
not recommended as there is then no way of knowing if your printer is about to burn out with ink
flooding.
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subli-trans XPRES™ GXe7700N Instruction Manual
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