Maintaining The Ink Cartridge - Neopost IS-240 User Manual

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Maintaining the Ink Cartridge

About the Ink Cartridge
The ink cartridge for printing is located in the mailing system and contains ink that has been
tested and approved by the postal service.
The ink cartridge uses ink jet technology. It requires the print head nozzles to be cleaned
regularly to provide a good printing quality. The system performs cleaning automatically or
on your request. You can also clean the head manually if the automatic cleaning is not
sufficient.
The ink cartridge printing head has to be mechanically 'aligned'. An alignment process is
provided Aligning the Printing Head
When there is no more ink in the cartridge, you have to change the cartridge as indicated
Changing the Ink Cartridge
Ink Cartridge Maintenance
This section explains how to:
• Check the ink level in the cartridge to make sure you will not be short of ink.
• Align the print heads.
• Do an automatic cleaning of the print heads.
• Clean the print heads manually.
• Change the ink cartridge.
Note: the term 'Print Headset' is also used to refer to the ink cartridge.
on page 184 .
on page 187 .
If you observe poor printing quality (streaked, too light, blurred,
etc.), see Cleaning the Printing Head on page 185 .
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