Maintaining Your Printer; Checking And Cleaning The Print Head - Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Series User Manual

Maintaining Your Printer

Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R3000 Series working at its best:
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"Checking and Cleaning the Print Head" below
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"Checking and Aligning the Print Head" on page 37
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"Checking the Ink Cartridge Status" on page 37
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"Replacing Ink Cartridges" on page 39
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"Switching Black Ink Types" on page 43
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"Cleaning the Rollers" on page 45

Checking and Cleaning the Print Head

If your printouts are faint or have gaps in them, some of the nozzles in the print
head may be clogged or ink may be running low in one or more of the ink
cartridges. Follow the steps below to check the print head nozzles.
1. Load a few sheets of plain paper.
2. Press to open the menu screen.
OK
3. Select , select
Setup
4. Press to print a nozzle check pattern.
OK
5. Check the nozzle check pattern that prints to see if there are gaps in the lines.
6. If there are no gaps, the print head is clean. Select
continue printing.
If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, select
Maintenance
Nozzles are clean
, then select
Nozzle Check
Nozzles need cleaning
Finish Nozzle Check
Head Cleaning
Maintaining Your Printer
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(see page 36).
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