Maintenance
See the instructions in these sections to maintain your printer for optimum results.
When to Maintain Your Product
Preparing for Maintenance
Stirring High Density Black Ink
Replacing the Ink and Chip Unit
Print Head Maintenance
Cleaning Around the Print Head
Cleaning the Wiper and Wiper Attachment Points
Cleaning the Anti-drying Caps
Cleaning the Platen, Pressure Rollers, and Media Holding Plates
Replacing the Waste Ink Bottle
Replacing the Wiper and Wiper Cleaner
Replacing the Media Holding Plates
When to Maintain Your Product
See the guidelines here to determine when you perform maintenance operations on your product or
replace or refill consumables. If you need to perform an operation, use the links at the end of this topic.
Caution: To prevent sedimentation and incorrect colors in your printed media, stir the High Density
Black ink in the ink tank once a week.
Note: You can set up certain maintenance operations to run automatically using settings on your product
control panel.
Symptom Maintenance or consumable operation
A low ink warning appears on the product control Check if you need to replace an ink and chip unit
panel screen. for the indicated color.
A prepare and replacement message appears on Replace the waste ink bottle.
the product LCD screen.
You want to check the print quality for clogged Run a nozzle check to print a check pattern.
nozzles.
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