Epson 500 Kurzverweiskarte

Maintaining Your All-in-One

Follow the steps here to check and clean the print head, and replace ink cartridges. 
To align the print head, if necessary, see the on-screen Epson Information Center.

If your printouts are faint or have gaps in them, the print head nozzles may be 
clogged. Follow these steps to check the print head nozzles:

1. Load letter-size plain paper in the sheet feeder.

2. Press the 

Setup

 button.

3. Press 

r

 to select 

Maintenance

 and press 

OK

.

4. Select 

Nozzle Check

 and press 

OK

.

5. Press x

Start

.

6. Check the nozzle check pattern that prints to see if there are gaps in the lines.

7. If there are no gaps, press 

OK

 to continue printing. 

If there are gaps or the pattern is faint, press x

Start

 to clean the print head. 

See page 33 for details.

Nozzles 
are clean

Nozzles need 
cleaning