IM280 User Guide - Priority Systems

Maintaining the Ink Cartridge
11.1 Maintaining the Ink Cartridge
About the Ink Cartridge
The ink cartridge for printing is located in the mailing system and contains fluorescent
red ink that has been tested and approved by the postal service.
The ink cartridge uses ink jet technology. It requires the print head nozzles to be
cleaned regularly to provide a good printing quality. The system performs cleaning
automatically or on your request. You can also clean the head manually if the automatic
cleaning is not sufficient.
The ink cartridge printing head has to be mechanically 'aligned'. An alignment
process is provided p.169 .
When there is no more ink in the cartridge, you have to change the cartridge as indicated
p.172 .
Ink Cartridge Maintenance
If you observe poor printing quality (streaked, too light, blurred,
etc.), see Cleaning the Printing Head p.171 .
This section explains how to:
• Check the ink level in the cartridge to make sure you will not be short of ink
• Align the print heads
• Do an automatic cleaning of the print heads
• Clean the print heads manually
• Change the ink cartridge.
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Note: the term 'Print Headset' is also used to refer to the ink cartridge.
Maintaining your Mailing System
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