You need to clean your inkjet cartridge nozzles about once every three months or whenever the output from your printer suddenly starts streaking. You don’t need a scrub brush to clean your printer cartridges; instead, your printer can take care of cleaning its own cartridges (with your approval, of course). You can probably access your printer’s cartridge-cleaning controls in its Properties dialog box:
Choose Start→Printers and Faxes to see the available printers on your system.
![Choose Start→Printers and Faxes to see the available printers on your system.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/82239.image0.jpg)
Or choose Start→Settings→Printers and Faxes, depending on how your Start menu is configured.
Right-click the printer you want to calibrate and then choose Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.
![Right-click the printer you want to calibrate and then choose Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/82241.image2.jpg)
The printer’s Properties dialog box appears.
Locate the printer’s cleaning options.
![Locate the printer’s cleaning options.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/82243.image4.jpg)
You might have to search the tabs (or check your printer’s manual).
Click the appropriate cleaning button.
![Click the appropriate cleaning button.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/82245.image6.jpg)
Your printer cleans the ink nozzles, hopefully giving you perfectly printed pages again.