Printing Tests and Normal Cleaning

1. Perform a printing test.

Before you carry out actual printing, perform a printing test to ensure no dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs. If dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs, perform cleaning of the print heads (normal cleaning).
MEMO:

  • This operation is unnecessary if you will only perform cutting.

  • When performing printing tests successively, you can select "FEED" (vertical printing) or "SCAN" (horizontal printing) as the print position for the 2nd and later tests in comparison to the 1st test.

Procedure
  1. Load the media.
    Setup of Media
  2. Press [FUNCTION].
  3. Press [▼], then [▶] to display the screen shown below.


  4. Press [ENTER].
    Printing of the test pattern starts.
  5. Check whether there is dot drop-out or dot displacement in the test pattern.
    Missing blocks indicate dot drop-out. Collapsed or inclined blocks indicate dot displacement.


  6. If you have opened the front cover, close it.
    If no dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs, this operation is finished. Press [FUNCTION] to go back to the original screen.

2. Perform normal cleaning.

Procedure
  1. Press [▼] to display the screen shown below.


  2. Press [ENTER].
    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.


  3. Press [▲].


  4. Press [ENTER].
    Perform a printing test again to check whether the dot drop-out and dot displacement have been corrected.
  5. Check to make sure the dot drop-out or dot displacement has been corrected.
    If the problem persists, try performing normal cleaning again. If the printer has been used for a long period, dot drop-outs may not be fixed even after performing normal cleaning two or three times. If this is the case, clean using a different method.