Using The Head Cleaning Utility; Examining The Nozzle Check Pattern; Using The Control Panel To Clean The Print Head - Epson Stylus Photo 2000P Product Information

EPSON Stylus Photo 2000P

Using the Head Cleaning Utility

Follow these steps to run the Head Cleaning utility
(recommended method):
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.
Or, with Windows, click
select . Right-click your
Printers
printer icon. Then select
2000P
in Windows NT or
Defaults
Windows 2000).
3. Windows: Click the
Utility
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.
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 the print head nozzles are clean.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click
. Then click
nozzle check pattern
pattern prints (see the next page for details).
7. If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps in its dots, click
.
Finish
If the pattern is missing dots, click
head again. If you don't see any improvement after cleaning
three or four times, check the solutions in the Printer Basics
book. 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.
Using the Control Panel to Clean the
Print Head
Follow these steps to clean the print head:
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. Press the R cleaning button and hold it down for three
seconds. Cleaning takes about 30 seconds, during which the
printer makes some noise and the Ppower light flashes.
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, point to , then
Start Settings
EPSON Stylus Photo
(
Properties Document
Printing Preferences
tab.
Utility button.
button.
Head Cleaning
Print
. The nozzle check
Next
to clean the print
Clean
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.
3. After the Ppower light stops flashing, open an application
and print a short document containing black and color data.
Check the quality of your printout, then go to step 8.
Or if your printer is connected directly to the computer, go
to step 4 to run a nozzle check.
4. If you have an application running, access the printer
settings dialog box.
Or, with Windows, click
select
Printers
in
printer icon in the Printers window. Then select
2000P
Properties
Printing Preferences
5. Windows: Click the
Macintosh: Click the
6. Make sure paper is loaded in the printer, click the
button, and click
Check
prints (see the next section for details).
7. If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps in its dots, click
.
Finish
If the pattern is missing dots, click
head again.
8. If you don't see any improvement after cleaning three or
four times, check the solutions in the Printer Basics book.
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. It should look
something like this:
Each line in the pattern should be complete, with no gaps. If
your printout looks okay, you're done. If any dots are missing,
as shown below, clean the print head again; see page 9 for
instructions.
missing dots
6/00
, point to
Start
. Right-click your
EPSON Stylus Photo
( in Windows NT or
Document Defaults
in Windows 2000).
tab.
Utility
Utility button.
. The nozzle check pattern
Next
Clean
missing dots
missing dots
, then
Settings
Nozzle
to clean the print