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Precautions to keep good printing quality/use printer over the long term

7-2-4. Cleaning the CR (carriage) plate

Clean the carriage plate when it is contaminated with ink.

<TIPS>

 You can use an already-used clean stick R.

(1) Make the clean stick R, cleaning cup, gloves and cleaning solution, which come standard with the printer, available

for use.

 Never touch the tip end of clean stick R with your hand. If any sebaceous matter is attached to the head nozzle, it may

result in a printer malfunction.

(2)

From the menu, select [Maintenance] > [Maintenance Part Clean/Replace], and press

 If any other error or message is displayed on the operation panel or warning message window, follow the message to solve

the problem, then perform the cleaning.

<TIPS>



Pressing

causes the platen to start moving. Do not put anything around the platen.

(3) Follow the on-screen message and turn off the power.

 Please complete the task within 20 minutes, in order to prevent the print heads from drying up.

 When the task will take more than 20 minutes to complete, close the front cover and turn on the power, then select

[Maintenance Part Clean/Replace] again to restart the task. Then, a head cleaning will be performed to prevent any ink

from drying up.

(4) Open the front cover.

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(5) Put a proper amount of cleaning solution into the cleaning cup.

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