Maintaining Your Printer; Checking And Cleaning The Print Head - Epson STYLUS Photo R2880 Series User Manual

Maintaining Your Printer

Follow the steps in these sections to keep the R2880 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 38
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"Replacing Ink Cartridges" on page 40
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"Switching Black Ink Cartridge Types" on page 44

Checking and Cleaning the Print Head

You can check and clean the print head nozzles automatically using the Auto
Nozzle Check and Cleaning utility in your printer software. It prints a check
pattern that your printer then reads to see if you have any clogged nozzles, which it
then cleans, if necessary.
1. Load a few sheets of plain paper in the sheet feeder (see page 6).
2. Do one of the following:
Windows: Right-click the
the bottom right corner of your screen
(the taskbar) and select
Cleaning
Mac OS X: Open the
folder, open the
, select
Utility3
. Then select
OK
and Cleaning
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Maintaining Your Printer
Auto Head
.
Applications
EPSON Printer
, and click
SP R2880
Auto Nozzle Check
.
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