MAINTAING YOUR *NESPRESSO *ORIGINAL LINE MACHINE

Machine Maintenance: 
Water tank
When water sits for long periods of time (12+ hours), its PH changes. This, in turn,
leads to a noticeable change in taste: Water tastes “flat” if you let it sit too long after
its been exposed to oxygen and other surfaces, and this will affect the taste of your
coffee. Fill up your water tank each morning so that you don’t risk any strange taste
making its way into your coffee. It’s also recommended that you clean your water
tank at least once a week.

Descaling:
You will need to buy a descaling liquid
What is Descaling?
All coffee machines, including Nespresso machines, build up hard deposits of
calcium and lime from water. Descaling your machine will remove these deposits,
allowing the coffee to achieve a proper extraction, thereby improving its flavor
and temperature. Since flavor and temperature are two key components to the
overall coffee experience it’s important to keep the machine running like new.

What to look for:

Whenever your machine takes longer than usual to brew or starts making too much
noise when brewing or starts leaking allot of water it’s time for descaling.
Descaling is easy. Follow these bellow instructions or watch this tutorial video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yu_YVPPOY

Step 1 - Get Your Machine Ready
 Turn on your machine
 Before starting, remove the capsule container, drip dray and any capsules
 Place a container or cup under the coffee spout that can hold at least 4 cups of water
(equivalent to 1 liter)
 Fill the water tank with 500 ml of water and mix in the Nespressodescaling solution
 Turn the machine on and allow it to heat up

Step 2 - Descale Your Specific Machine
 To activate the descaling mode, wait until the 2 buttons stop flashing
 Then, for the Inissia, Pixie, CitiZ, and Essenza - press the two top buttons
simultaneously for three seconds, for the U machine - press all three buttons
simultaneously for three seconds, for the Lattissima models - put in the descaling nozzle
and press the "Lungo" button
 The lights will start flashing quickly to indicate that the descaling mode is activated
 Press the "Lungo" button to start

Step 3 - Rinse!
 Once the flow is finished, refill the water tank with the used solution
 Press the Lungo button and let all the descaling solution flow through the machine again
 To finish, empty and thoroughly rinse out the water tank
 Refill it with fresh water
 Press the Lungo button to empty the water tank completely of its contents
 Empty and rinse out the drip tray

Step 4 - Exit the Descaling Mode

 For the Inissia, Pixie, CitiZ, and Essenza - press the two top buttons simultaneously for
three seconds to exit the descaling mode, for the U machine - press all three buttons
simultaneously for three seconds, for the Lattissima models - take out the descaling
nozzle
 The buttons will blink for 25 seconds during the pre-heating phase
 Your Nespresso machine is now ready for normal use