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, 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.

MEMO If the media has already been set up, the After cleaning, perform a printing test. menu appears on the Powerful Cleaning screen. When this setting is turned on, a printing test is performed after cleaning.
Procedure
  1. Set up the media.
  2. Tap Panel_Icon_Menu.
  3. Tap Cleaning - Powerful Cleaning.
    The screen shown below appears.

    PowerfulCleaning_Panel
  4. Tap Execute.

    Cleaning will start. The details of the operation in progress and the (approximate) remaining time of that work are displayed in the status bar at the top of the screen. When the work is finished, the status bar returns to its original display.

  5. Tap Panel_Icon_Back.
  6. Tap Printing Test.
  7. Select Nozzle Drop-out Test and tap Execute.
    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."

  8. Tap Panel_Icon_Home to return to the home screen.