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52 Maintaining Your Printer
Before you align the print head, make sure the CD/DVD tray is not inserted in
the printer, and make sure the front tray is in the paper (lower) position. See
page 8 for details.
1. Turn on the printer.
2. Make sure none of the lights are indicating errors. See page 55 for more
information.
3. Load several sheets of plain, letter-size paper.
4. Do one of the following:
■ Windows: Right-click the printer icon on your taskbar (in the lower
right corner of your screen). Select
Print Head Alignment.
■ Macintosh: Open the Applications folder and select EPSON Printer
Utility2
. Select SP R260 Series in the printer list, click OK, then select
Print Head Alignment.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen to print the alignment pattern. You see a
window like this one:
6. Look at the four sets of patterns in your printout. For each set, look at the
printed squares to determine which one in each set is the most even, with no
streaks or lines, and enter its number in the corresponding box on the screen.
If every square in a set contains a line or lines, select the square with the
thinnest line or lines. Then click
Realignment and Print to print another
alignment sheet and repeat this step.
7. Click
Finish to close the Print Head Alignment utility.