Recovering Nozzles By Ams - Canon Arizona 6100 XTHF Mark II Series User Manual

Recovering Nozzles by AMS

Recovering Nozzles by AMS
Introduction
After checking nozzle performance and determining that automatic printhead maintenance is
necessary, perform the following procedure.
Procedure
1. From the Maintenance tab / Maintenance Tools menu, select Auto-Maintenance.
2. Decide what color channels require automatic printhead maintenance.
3. Select Standard maintenance on the required color channels.
4. Reprint the nozzle check and evaluate results. Repeat Nozzle Recovery with the AMS, if necessary.
5. Repeat steps 1 to 3 if necessary.
NOTE
In most cases a non-working nozzle is temporary and should be resolved through the
Standard AMS procedure. Many times a nozzle will recover on its own during printing.
If a nozzle does not recover through standard AMS practices it may be necessary to
recover the nozzle by swabbing (see the next section). If swabbing does not recover a
nozzle you can return here and try a Long AMS. However, the purpose of the Long
AMS is to push out any air bubbles that have accumulated in the ink reservoir. The
Long AMS is a 10 second purge while the Standard is 3 seconds.
NOTE
The No purge option is for the White channel only. It can be used when there is
difficulty in recovering white nozzles. It works by only using the AMS vacuum to suck
ink from the nozzles but does not push ink through from the reservoir as the regular
AMS does.
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