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Cleaning Inside the Printer

To prevent smudges on the back side of the paper, perform bottom plate cleaning.
Also perform bottom plate cleaning if ink smudges caused by something other than print data appear on the printed page.

The procedure for performing bottom plate cleaning is as follows:

Bottom Plate Cleaning

  1. Select Cleaning from the pop-up menu on the Canon IJ Printer Utility

  2. Click the Bottom Plate Cleaning icon

    The dialog opens.

  3. Load paper in the printer

    As instructed in the dialog, fold the A4 size or Letter size plain paper in half lengthwise, and then unfold the sheet.
    Load the paper into the rear tray in the landscape orientation with the crest of the crease facing down.

  4. Perform the bottom plate cleaning

    Make sure that the printer is on and then click OK.
    Bottom plate cleaning starts.