Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 - Manual (Page 79)

Unwanted horizontal white lines or stripes appear
Problems with print quality, especially horizontal white lines in your
document, may mean a nozzle on the print head is clogged or your ink
cartridge is running out of ink. To solve the problem, try cleaning the print
head as part of a print request. (This tells the printer to clean the print head
before it starts printing the next document.)
IMPORTANT Cleaning the print head consumes a small amount of ink. If you
repeat the procedure unnecessarily, you reduce the life of your cartridge.
Explanations of these two procedures follow.
Cleaning the print head
To clean the print head, follow these steps:
1 When you are about to print a document, click Utilities in the Print dialog box.
Note: If the printer is being shared by using ColorShare, you must print the
document from the computer that is directly connected to the printer.
2 Make your choices in the Utilities dialog box.
The Utilities dialog box closes, and the Print dialog box reappears.
3 In the Print dialog box, click Print.
The printer cleans the print head before printing your document.
Note: After the printer cleans the print head and prints your document, the
cleaning option is automatically turned off. You don’t have to turn it off before
printing again.
79 Troubleshooting
First, click to
place an X here.
Then click OK.