Refilling The Ink Tank - Epson ET-5170 Series User Manual

Solving Problems
Ink consumption
❏ To maintain optimum print head performance, some ink is consumed from all ink tanks during maintenance
operations such as print head cleaning. Ink may also be consumed when you turn the printer on.
❏ When printing in monochrome or grayscale, color inks instead of black ink may be used depending on the
paper type or print quality settings. This is because a mixture of color inks is used to create black.
❏ The ink in the ink bottles supplied with your printer is partly used during initial setup. In order to produce high
quality printouts, the print head in your printer will be fully charged with ink. This one-off process consumes a
quantity of ink and therefore these bottles may print fewer pages compared to subsequent ink bottles.
❏ Quoted yields may vary depending on the images that you are printing, the paper type that you are using, the
frequency of your prints and environmental conditions such as temperature.
❏ Visually check ink levels in the actual ink tanks. Prolonged use of the printer when the ink is expended could
damage the printer. Epson recommends filling the ink tank to the upper line when the printer is not operating
to reset the ink level.

Refilling the Ink Tank

1. Select Maintenance on the printer's control panel.
2. Select Fill Ink.
3. Read all of the usage precautions for filling ink on the screen, and then proceed to the next screen.
4. Open the ink tank cover.
5. Open the ink tank cap.
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