Check State of Print Head

If printouts are Blurry or Fuzzy/Streaks or Lines/Inaccurate or Bleeding Colors, perform from step 1 until step 5 in order and make sure that you need to replace the print head.

Printing Is Blurry

White Streaks Appear

Colors Are Wrong

1. Step1 Print the nozzle check pattern.

   After printing the nozzle check pattern, examine the pattern.

   • For Windows:

     • Printing a Nozzle Check Pattern

   • For macOS:

     • Printing a Nozzle Check Pattern

   If the pattern is not printed correctly, go to the next step.

2. Step2 Clean the print head.

   After cleaning the print head, print the nozzle check pattern and check the result.

   • For Windows:

     • Clean the print head

   • For macOS:

     • Clean the print head

   If it does not improve, clean the print head again.

   If it still does not improve, go to the next step.

3. Step3 Clean the print head deeply.

   After cleaning the print head deeply, print the nozzle check pattern and check the result.

   • For Windows:

     • Clean the print head deeply

   • For macOS:

     • Clean the print head deeply

   If it does not improve, turn off the printer, wait for more than 24 hours, and go to the next step.

4. Step4 Clean the print head deeply again.

   After cleaning the print head deeply again, print the nozzle check pattern and check the result.

   If it still does not improve, go to the next step.

5. Step5 Perform ink flush.

   After performing ink flush, print the nozzle check pattern and check the result.

   Ink flush consumes a great amount of ink. Frequent ink flush can rapidly consume ink, so perform it only when necessary.

   • How to Do Ink Flush

If the nozzle check pattern is not printed correctly even after performing ink flush, problems may be solved by replacing the print head.

For details, see here.