Maintaining Your Product; Checking The Print Head Nozzles - Epson Stylus NX300 Series Quick Manual

Maintaining Your Product

Follow the instructions in this chapter for checking and cleaning the print head
nozzles and replacing ink cartridges. To align the print head, if necessary, see your
online User's Guide.

Checking the Print Head Nozzles

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 letter-size plain paper in the sheet feeder.
2. Press the
3. Press u or d to select
4. Press u or d to select
press the x
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 and you can continue printing.
Press to finish.
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If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, press
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button, then press
Copy/Fax
Maintenance
Nozzle Check
button.
Color
Nozzles are clean
.
Menu
, then press .
OK
, then
Nozzles need cleaning
to clean the print head. See
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