Performing Maintenance using the Control Panel (Maintenance Menu)

Print a test pattern to check that print head nozzles become clogged.

If nozzle problems occur, print head nozzles become clogged and ink cannot be ejected properly. This will result in lower print quality.

You can clean the print head.

Clean the head if certain colors are not printed or are printed faintly.

Head cleaning consumes ink.

You can clean the print head more thoroughly.

Because head flushing consumes more ink than head cleaning, do it only if the print head cannot be cleaned properly by head cleaning.

You can resolve problems such as lines that are printed vertically misaligned or blurred colors.

If printed lines are horizontally misaligned or if images are printed unevenly, print the test pattern and adjust the paper feed setting.

Print the test pattern and align the point where printing starts for each paper feed tray.

You can specify the date and time.

The key repeat function allows you to specify setting values in units of ten or scroll the display quickly by pressing and holding down a control panel key. You can enable or disable this function.

• On

• Off

Default: On

To prevent spoiling of printed copies, select a print delivery interval to allow them to dry.

The interval must be long enough to allow a sheet to dry.

• Off

• 1 sec

• 2 sec

• 5 sec

• 10 sec

• 15 sec

• 20 sec

Default: Off

To prevent spoiling of duplex-printed copies, select a print delivery interval to allow them to dry.

The interval must be long enough to allow a duplex-printed sheet to dry.

The GX e2600 has no duplex printing capability and therefore does not feature this function.

• Off

• 1 sec

• 2 sec

• 5 sec

• 10 sec

• 15 sec

• 20 sec

Default: Off

You can eject a sheet of paper without printing anything on it.

To remove moisture from inside the printer, you can eject three sheets of paper without printing anything on them.