Cleaning Your Printer; Cleaning The Printheads - Lexmark Optra Color 45 User Manual

Cleaning Your Printer

Routine maintenance should be done at regular intervals to
maintain top performance and avoid print quality problems and
paper feed problems. The following sections step you through the
process of cleaning the print cartridge printheads.

Cleaning the Printheads

Run the printhead test to clean the printheads. A test line prints so
you can see if the cleaning process was successful. Use the
printheads test:
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To run the printhead test:
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When you suspect the printheads are clogged.
When characters are not printing completely.
Make sure the paper is loaded in the standard input tray
and the Ready status message appears on the operator
panel display.
If an error message appears, see "Understanding Printer
Messages" on page 145.
Press Menu> or <Menu to enter the menus.
Continue to press and release Menu> or <Menu until you
see TESTS MENU.
Press Select.
Press Menu> until Clean Heads appears on the second
line of the operator panel display.
Press Select.
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