
That’s it! Brother Nozzle ChecksĪs with seemingly all Brother maintenance routines, you press ‘Ink Management,’ then select ‘Test Print’ and then ‘Print Quality.’ Once you select ‘Colour Start’ it should print a test-sheet, and you then just need to follow the instructions you get given. Press the ‘Ink Management’ button, then select Cleaning, and choose which print head(s) to clean.

With the test sheet printed off, just select which of the samples most closely matches number 0. Press the ‘Ink Management’ button, then select ‘Test Print’ on the little screen, then ‘Alignment’ and choose whether to do just Mono (black and white) or Colour.

Obviously manufacturers have different ways of running printhead cleaning cycles, why would they make it easy for us endusers? Below are the most common ways to run the maintenance and cleaning cycles by brand.īrother have a great little system where you can sometimes choose to do head cleaning on just the black or the colours, a nice little way of saving some ink! Aligning Brother Print Heads
