Cleaning The Print Head Deeply - Canon MG6100 SERIES On-Screen Manual

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Cleaning the Print Head Deeply

If print quality does not improve by the standard cleaning of the Print Head, clean the Print Head deeply.
Cleaning the Print Head deeply consumes more ink than the standard cleaning of the Print Head, so
clean the Print Head deeply only when necessary.
You need to prepare: a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper
1.
Make sure that the power is turned on.
2.
Make sure that one or more sheets of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper are loaded in
the Cassette.
3.
Open the Paper Output Tray gently, and open the Output Tray Extension.
Important
If the Inner Cover is open, close it.
4.
Clean the Print Head deeply.
Select Setup
(1)
See Selecting Menus on the HOME Screen
The Setup menu screen will appear.
Select Maintenance
(2)
The Maintenance screen will appear.
Select Deep cleaning, and touch the
(3)
The confirmation screen will appear.
Select Yes, and touch the
(4)
The machine starts cleaning the Print Head deeply.
Do not perform any other operations until the machine completes the deep cleaning of the Print Head. This
takes about 2 minutes 30 seconds.
The pattern print confirmation screen will appear.
Select Yes, and touch the
(5)
The nozzle check pattern will be printed.
When the completion message appears, touch the OK button.
(6)
The screen will return to the Maintenance screen.
5.
Examine the nozzle check pattern.
Examining the Nozzle Check
See step 1 in
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When Printing Becomes Faint or Colors Are Incorrect
on the HOME screen.
.
, and touch the
OK
OK
button.
OK
button.
OK
Pattern.
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