This maintenance should be performed once per week, ideally at the end of the work week or whenever the printer will be left for few days. This maintenance would follow the daily maintenance.
- Power down and unplug the printer.
- Pour a bit of cleaning solution into a small container. This will be used with a swab to clean the wiper and capping station. This will prevent the contamination of the larger container of cleaning fluid.
- Open the printer cover and prepare to slide the print head to the left. You will release the print head in the following steps.
- Locate the maintenance cover window on the right side of
the printer. Slide it to the left and open.
- Press the gear slightly in and rotate counter-clockwise.
As you rotate the gear, apply slight pressure to the print
head with the intent of sliding it to the left. Continue to
rotate the gear until the print head is freed and slide it
to the left.
- Move the print head by had to the far left side of the printer. This will allow you free access to the capping station and the wiper.
- Continue to rotate the gear until the wiper blade moves
forward. From this position, it is easy to fully clean both
sides of the wiper blade.
- Carefully clean around the capping station and the wiper
blade with a cleaning applicator dipped in the cleaning solution
from the small container in step 2 above. Make sure that the
rubber parts of both the wiper and the capping station are
always clean and free from any ink, dried ink, dust, or dirt.
These two are the only parts of the printer that contact the
print head. Keeping these clean will help ensure quality prints.
- After cleaning the capping station and wiper, use a syringe
or dropper to fill the capping station with clean cleaning
fluid. This will prevent the print head from drying out over
a longer period.
- Manually slide the print head to the right and into the parked position.
- Rotate the gear clockwise until the print head can no longer
be moved. The will ensure that the print head is in the locked
position and is resting in the cleaning solution.
- Close the printer cover and slide the maintenance cover
closed.