Powerful Cleaning Method

The print heads are important components that discharge ink. They require periodic and appropriate maintenance. When problems such as dot drop-out are not resolved by medium cleaning (Medium Cleaning Method), perform the more forceful "powerful cleaning" to remove clogging from the print heads.
IMPORTANT:

Powerful cleaning consumes more ink than medium cleaning, and overly frequent use may damage the print heads themselves. Avoid performing this operation more than necessary.

  1. Load the media.
  2. Press FUNCTION.
  3. Press ▼, then ▶ to display the screen shown below.


  4. Press ENTER.
    A test pattern is printed.
  5. Press ▼ several times to display the screen shown below.


  6. Press ENTER to confirm your entry.
    The screen shown below appears, and then cleaning starts. The (approximate) remaining time for the procedure is displayed on the screen. (The display shown below is an example. "01:45" = "1 minute and 45 seconds")


    When finished, the screen shown below appears again.


  7. Press ▼ several times to display the screen shown below.


  8. Press ENTER.
    Perform a printing test again to check whether the dot drop-out and dot displacement have been corrected.
    MEMO:

    • If the problem persists, try performing powerful cleaning again.

    • If problems such as dot drop-out and dot displacement persist even after you have performed powerful cleaning several times, perform "manual cleaning."

      Manual Cleaning Method