Troubleshooting
118 Kiaro! 200 User Guide
Printhead Contamination
Description
Color-smearing occurring even in pure CMYK printed output after performing a
physical cleaning.
Cause
Introduction of ink from one printhead into a different printhead with use of a cleaning
stick has contaminated the printhead in question.
Possible Solutions
Perform a printhead priming and then immediately one or more heavy cleanings via the
maintenance utility to flush the ink out.
• Priming the Printheads
• Cleaning Printheads