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Follow these steps to run the Head Cleaning utility:
1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and both the B black and
A color ink out lights are off. (If an ink out light is flashing, replace the ink
cartridge instead.)
2. If you have an application running, access the printer settings dialog box as
described on page 8 (Windows) or page 13 (Macintosh).
Or, with Windows, click Start, point to Settings, then select Printers. Right-click
your EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 printer icon in the Printers window. Then
select Properties (Document Defaults in Windows NT, Printing Preferences in
Windows 2000).
3. Windows: Click the Utility tab.
Macintosh: Click the Utility
button.
4. On the Utility menu, click the Head
Cleaning
button.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen
to clean the print head. Cleaning takes
about 30 seconds, during which the
printer makes some noise and the
Ppower light flashes.
Never turn off the printer while the
P
power light is flashing, unless
the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more than 5 minutes.
6. When the Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to confirm that the
print head nozzles are clean.
Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click
Print nozzle check pattern
(Windows) or
Confirmation
(Macintosh). Then click
Next
. The nozzle check
pattern prints (see page 23 for details).
Head Cleaning
button
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