Epson stylus c42 用户手册

Maintaining Your Printer

1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and the red

 

 

b

 error light is 

off. (If the red light is flashing or on, you may need to replace the ink cartridge; 
see 

 for details.)

2. Do one of the following:

■

Windows: Right-click the 

 printer icon on your taskbar (in the lower right 

corner of your screen). Select 

Head Cleaning

.

■

Macintosh OS 8.5.1 to 9.x: Open the File menu and choose 

Page Setup

 or 

Print

. Click the 

 

Utility

 button, then click the 

 

Head Cleaning

 button.

■

Macintosh OS X: Double-click the 

Applications

 folder on your hard drive. 

Double-click 

EPSON Printer Utility

, select the 

C42 Series

 printer in the 

Printer List window, and click 

OK

. Then click the 

 

Head Cleaning

 button.

3. 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 green 

 

P power 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.

4. When the 

 

P power

 

light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to confirm the print 

head nozzles are clean.

Make sure plain paper is loaded in the printer and click 

Print Nozzle Check 

Pattern

. Then click 

Print

. The nozzle check pattern prints (see the next section for 

details). 

5. If the nozzle check pattern has no gaps or lines, click 

Finish

.

If the pattern has white lines, click 

Clean

 to clean the print head again. 

If you don’t see any improvement after cleaning three or four times, check the 
solutions beginning on 

. You can also turn the printer off and wait 

overnight—this allows any dried ink to soften—and then try cleaning the print 
head again.