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Cleaning the Print Head - TS9521 / TS9520

Article ID: ART171268 | Date published: 08/02/2018 | Date last updated: 03/12/2019
 

Description

Maintenance Function

Solution

Cleaning the Print Head

Clean the print head if lines are missing or if horizontal white streaks are present in the printed nozzle check pattern. Cleaning unclogs the nozzles and restores the print head condition. Cleaning the print headconsumes ink, so clean the print head only when necessary.

You need to prepare: a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper

  1. Check that printer is turned on.

  2. Load a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper in the cassette.

    After inserting the cassette into the printer, the paper setting confirmation screen appears on the touch screen. If the page size shown on the touch screen is A4 or Letter, select Yes. If not, select Changeand change the page size to A4 or Letter.

    Note

    • Be sure to load paper in the cassette. Even if you load paper on the rear tray, the nozzle check pattern is not printed.

  3. Open operation panel and pull out paper output tray.

  4. Select  (Setup) on HOME screen.

    The setup menu screen will appear.

  5. Select  Maintenance.

    The Maintenance screen will appear.

  6. Select Cleaning.

    The confirmation screen will appear.

  7. Select Yes.

    The printer starts cleaning the print head.

    Do not perform any other operations until the printer completes the cleaning of the print head. This takes about 1 minute.

    The pattern print confirmation screen will appear.

  8. Select Yes.

    The nozzle check pattern will be printed.

  9. Examine the nozzle check pattern.

Note

TS9520 / TS9521C Support Page


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