Canon iX7000 Series On-Screen Manual page 67

Cleaning the Print Head
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.
Important
You cannot feed paper from the Front Tray for printing the nozzle check pattern. Load paper in
the Cassette.
3.
Open the Front Tray gently, and pull out the Front Tray Extension.
4.
Open the Canon IJ Printer Utility.
See Opening the Canon IJ Printer Utility
5.
Clean the Print Head.
Make sure that Cleaning is selected in the pop-up menu.
(1)
Click Cleaning.
(2)
Select the ink group to clean.
(3)
Note
This printer has two kinds of black ink: BK and PBK.
Check the nozzle check pattern, then select Black if there are missing lines in BK, or select
Color if there are horizontal white streaks.
For details on the nozzle check pattern, see
(4) Click OK.
The printer starts cleaning the Print Head when the
Do not perform any other operations until the printer completes the cleaning of the Print Head. This takes
about 1 minute.
Note
Clicking Initial Check Items displays the items to be checked before cleaning the Print Head.
(Macintosh).
Examining the Nozzle Check
Power lamp starts flashing green.
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Pattern.