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13. Press the H ink button. The printer begins charging the ink

delivery system.

The green P power light and red H ink lights flash and the

printer makes noise. Charging takes about 90 seconds.

When it’s finished, the green P power light stops flashing

and stays on, and the red H ink light goes out.

Caution: Never turn off the printer while the green P power light

is flashing, unless the printer hasn’t moved or made noise for more

than 5 minutes.

Aligning the Print Head

If your printouts contain misaligned vertical lines, or you see

light or dark horizontal banding, you may need to align the

print head. You can have the printer automatically check and

align the print head or you can check and adjust the alignment

yourself.

Automatically Aligning the Print Head

1. Turn on the printer.

2. Load plain, letter-size paper.

3. Do one of the following:

Windows: Right-click the icon on your taskbar (in the

lower right corner of your screen). Select

Print Head

Alignment

Mac OS X: Open the

Applications folder and select

EPSON Printer Utility. Select SP R800 in the printer list,

click

OK, and select Print Head Alignment.

Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x: Choose

File > Page Setup or Print.

Click the utility icon, then select

Print Head

Alignment

You see a screen like this:

4. Click the

Automatic button, if necessary, then click OK.

5. On the next screen, click

Start. The printer then prints and

checks an alignment pattern. It then prints and checks two

more patterns.

6. When alignment is finished, click

Finish on the last screen.

Manually Aligning the Print Head

1. Turn on the printer.

2. Load plain, letter-size paper.

3. Do one of the following:

Windows: Right-click the icon on your taskbar (in the

lower right corner of your screen). Select

Print Head

Alignment

Mac OS X: Open the

Applications folder and select

EPSON Printer Utility. Select SP R800 in the printer list,

click

OK, and select Print Head Alignment.

Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x: Choose

File > Page Setup or Print.

Click the utility icon, then select

Print Head

Alignment

4. Click the

Manual button, then click OK.

You see a screen like this as the printer prints an alignment

check pattern:

5. On the check page, select the box in each pattern that has

the least noticeable lines in it. You may need to use a

magnifying glass or loupe.

Select one box each for pattern numbered 1 through 3.

Then enter the box number for each pattern in the boxes on

the screen.

If box #5 is not the best-aligned box in each pattern, click

Realignment to print another test page and repeat this

step.

6. When box #5 is the best-aligned in all the patterns, click

Finish.

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