Maintaining The Ink Cartridge - quadient IX-3 User Manual

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Maintaining the Ink Cartridge

About the Ink Cartridge
The ink cartridge for printing is located in the Mailing System and contains ink that has
been tested and approved by the postal service.
The ink cartridge uses ink jet technology. It requires the print head nozzles to be cleaned
regularly to provide a good printing quality. The system performs cleaning automatically or
on your request. You can also clean the heads manually if the automatic cleaning is not
sufficient.
The ink cartridge also contains two print heads that have to be aligned.
Ink Cartridge Maintenance
This section explains how to:
• Check the ink level in the cartridge to make sure you will not be run out of ink
• Align the print heads
• Do an automatic cleaning of the print heads
• Clean the print heads manually
• Change the ink cartridge
If you observe poor print quality (streaked, too light, blurred, etc.),
see Cleaning the Print Heads
The term 'Print Headset' is also used to refer to the Ink Cartridge.
on page 152.
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