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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.

You can use the operator panel or the Dell Printer Solution Center to clean the 
nozzles.

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

• Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
• 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.

• If print quality has not improved, try cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles 

up to two more times.

Using the operator panel

Using the printer software

1

Load plain paper in the printer. For 

help, see page 15.

2

Press 

Options

 until Cartridges 

displays.

3

Press 

+

 until Clean displays.

4

Press 

Select

.

1

Load plain paper in the printer. For 

help, see page 15.

2

Open the Dell Printer Solution 

Center. For help, see page 10.

3

Click the 

Maintenance

 tab.

4

From the Maintenance tab, click 

Clean to fix horizontal streaks

.

5

Click 

Print

.