Epson 740i - Manual (Page 26)

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Using the Head Cleaning Utility
1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and the
B black and A color
ink out lights are off.
2. Start an application and open a document.
3. Open the File menu and choose Print . You see the main printer settings dialog
box.
4. Click the Utility icon. You see
the Utility menu shown to the
right:
5. Click the Head Cleaning icon.
Follow the instructions on the
screen to clean the print head.
Cleaning takes a little over a
minute, during which the printer
makes some noise and the
Ppower
light flashes.
Caution:
Never turn off the printer while the
Ppower light is flashing, unless
the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.
6. When the
Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to test the results and
reset the cleaning cycle.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click Confirmation . Then click Next .
The nozzle check pattern prints; see page 22 for details.
7. If the nozzle check pattern is filled in completely, click Finish .
If the pattern is missing dots, click Clean to run another cleaning cycle. If you
don’t see any improvement in the print quality after cleaning two or three times,
check the solutions on page 36.
Head Cleaning utility
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