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Maintenance

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Cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles

To improve print quality, you may need to clean the ink cartridge nozzles.

Clean the nozzles when:

• Characters are not printing completely.
• White dashes appear in graphics or printed text.
• Print is smudged or too dark.
• Colors on print jobs are faded or they differ from the colors on the screen.
• Vertical, straight lines are not smooth.

To clean the nozzles:

1

Load plain paper in the printer. For help, see page 12.

2

Open the Dell Printer Solution Center. For help, see page 8.

3

From the Maintenance tab, click 

Clean

to

fix

horizontal

streaks

.

4

Click 

Print

.

A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean the clogged nozzles.

5

Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
If print quality has not improved, try cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles up to two more 

times.
To further improve print quality, try wiping the ink cartridge nozzles and contacts 

(refer to your 

User’s

Guide

), and then print your document again.