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Maintaining Your Printer
Running the Head Cleaning Utility
1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and the H ink out light is off.
(If the H ink out light is flashing or on, you may need to replace an ink cartridge;
see page 27.)
2. Windows: Right-click the printer icon on your taskbar (in the lower right
corner of your screen). Select
Head Cleaning
.
Macintosh OS 8.6 to 9.x: Open your application’s File menu and choose
Page
Setup
or
Print
. Click the Utility button, then click the
Head Cleaning
button.
Macintosh OS X: Open the
Applications
folder and double-click
EPSON
Printer Utility
. Select
C82 Series
in the printer list, click
OK
, and select
Head
Cleaning
.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print head. Cleaning takes
about 60 seconds, 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.
4. When the Ppower light stops flashing, make sure plain paper is loaded in the
printer. Then click
Print nozzle check pattern
(Windows) or
Confirmation
(Macintosh) and follow the on-screen directions to print a nozzle check (see the
next section for details).
5. If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps in its lines, click
Finish
.
If the pattern has any gaps, click
Clean
to clean the print head again. If you don’t
see any improvement after cleaning three or four times, check the solutions
beginning on page 45. You can also turn the printer off and wait overnight—this
allows any dried ink to soften—and then try cleaning the print head again.
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