CMYK Maintenance Page

Daily Maintenance Page for CMYK process

PRINTS ON LTR PAPER

To download this resource, click the download button below.

Instructions for use:
In order for the maintenance page to properly maintain your printer, it must be used as directed.

Print the maintenance page at least every 24 hours.
It is recommended to print in "standard" quality mode.
1. "Standard" mode uses the entire height of the print head to draw the entire image, which means the work will be divided evenly across the print head.
2. "High quality" mode prints with more passes, but those passes don't use the entire height of the print head evenly. Instead, those passes are printed as a gradient in order to better blend the passes together. This can adversely affect the purge sheet's effectiveness.

This purge sheet is designed to be printed with LibreOffice 24. It may work on other platforms but is not tested to do so.

When setting up this purge sheet, ensure that the printer is in fact printing the black target with the black nozzle, and not compositing the color channels instead. The printer should make longer, taller passes when printing the black target.

Download Purge Sheet file

Automating the Purge Sheet

FOR WINDOWS 10/11

To download a premade Task Scheduler template, click the download button below.

Instructions for use:
You will need to reconfigure the template to target the correct files and printers on your system. Also note that the host computer must be powered on and connected to the network at the scheduled time in order to send the job to the printer.

Download the purge sheet file above.
On your host computer, open a File Explorer window and go to your C drive. Here, create a new folder called "Application Support."

3. Inside the Application Support folder, create another folder named "PrintServer."

4. Move the downloaded purge sheet file into the PrintServer folder.

5. Press ⊞ + R and type "taskschd.msc," then press Enter. You may need to approve a User Account Control prompt, depending on your security settings.

6. In the Task Scheduler window, right-click on the Task Scheduler Library item in the left sidebar. Click "New Folder..." and enter the name "PrintServer" in the New Folder prompt.