184 Chapter 6 Print Quality
Print Quality
The method of improving Nozzle Defects is to:
1. To clean the printheads, go to the printer's front panel and select the ink, then Image quality mainte-
nance > Clean printheads. Then select which printheads you would like cleaned. You can clean all
of the printheads or only some of them. Your choices are:
•Clean all
•Clean M-Y
•Clean LM-LC
•Clean PK-LG
•Clean MK-C
Cleaning all of the printheads takes about five minutes. Cleaning any two printheads takes about
three minutes. Purging the ink takes about six minutes.
2. Reprint the Printhead Nozzles Test Plot to verify that the defective nozzles have been corrected.
3. If the problem continuous, replace the defective Printhead.
Diagnostic Part 2: Alignment Test
This test is designed to check any color-to-color and bi-directional misalignment the printer may have. The
Image Quality Service Best should always be used to print this plot.
1. If the Printer is experiencing horizontal misalignment problems, the Alignment Test will show some-
thing like this:
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