Cleaning The Ink Cartridge Nozzles - Dell A940 Owner's Manual

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Cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles

To improve print quality, you may need to clean the ink cartridge nozzles.
Clean the nozzles when:
• Characters are not printing completely.
• White dashes appear in graphics or printed text.
• Print is smudged or too dark.
• Colors on print jobs are faded or they differ from the colors on the screen.
• Vertical, straight lines are not smooth.
You can use the operator panel or the Dell Printer Solution Center to clean the
nozzles.
Using the operator panel
Load plain paper in the printer. For
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help, see page 15.
Press Options until Cartridges
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displays.
Press + until Clean displays.
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Press Select.
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A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean the clogged
nozzles.
• Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
• To further improve print quality, try wiping the ink cartridge nozzles
and contacts (refer to your User's Guide), and then print your
document again.
• If print quality has not improved, try cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles
up to two more times.
Using the printer software
Load plain paper in the printer. For
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help, see page 15.
Open the Dell Printer Solution
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Center. For help, see page 10.
Click the Maintenance tab.
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From the Maintenance tab, click
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Clean to fix horizontal streaks.
Click Print.
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