Cleaning Your Printer
Cleaning the
Printheads
You should perform routine maintenance on your printer
at regular intervals to maintain top performance, and to
avoid print quality and paper feed problems. This section
steps you through the process of cleaning the print
cartridge printheads.
You can run the printhead test to clean the printheads. A
test line prints so you can see if the cleaning process was
successful. Use the printhead test:
• When you suspect the printheads are clogged, or
• When characters are not printing completely.
To Run the Printhead Test
1
Make sure paper is loaded in the standard input tray and
the following appears on the display:
Ready
If an error message appears, see Chapter 5 in the System
Administrator Guide.
2
Press
or
to enter the menus.
3
Continue to press and release
following appears on the display:
Tests Menu
Chapter 4: Maintaining the Printer
Cleaning Your Printer
or
until the
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