1910. The appliance is now ready for rinsing through with cleanwater. Empty the container used to collect the descal-er solution. Extract the water tank, empty, rinse underrunning water, fill with fresh water up to the MAX leveland put back in the appliance: "RINSING, Confirm?" isdisplayed;11. Place the container used to collect the descaler solutionempty under the coffee spouts and hot water spout (fig.37);12. Press the button to start rinsing. Hot water flows outof the spouts and the message "Rinsing Please wait" isdisplayed;13. When the water tank is empty, the messages "RINSING","FILL TANK" and "REPLACE FILTER" (if previously removed)alternate on the display;14. Remove the water tank, replace the filter (if previously re-moved), fill the tank up to the MAX level with fresh waterand insert it in the appliance: the display will show "RINS-ING Confirm?";15. Place the container used to collect the rinsing water emptyunder the hot water spout;16. Press the button to restart rinsing: Hot water flowsout of the hot water spout only and the message "RINSINGPlease wait" is displayed;17. When it finishes, the message "Rinsing complete, Con-firm?" appears on the display;18. Press the hot water button. The message "FILLTANK" is displayed;19. Empty the drip tray, remove and top up the water tankwith fresh water to the MAX level and put back in themachine.Descaling is complete.Please note!• If the descaling cycle is not completed correctly (e.g. noelectricity) we recommend repeating the cycle;• After descaling, it is normal for the grounds container(A15) to contain water.15. SETTING WATER HARDNESSThe DESCALE message is displayed after a period of time estab-lished according to water hardness.The machine is set by default for a hardness value of 4. The ma-chine can also be programmed according to the hardness of themains water in the various regions so that the machine needs tobe descaled less often.15.1 Measuring water hardness1. Remove the "TOTAL HARDNESS TEST" indicator paper (C1)from its pack (attached to the English instructions);2. Immerse the paper completely in a glass of water for onesecond;3. Remove the paper from the water and shake lightly. Afterabout a minute, 1, 2, 3, or 4 red squares form, dependingon the hardness of the water. Each square corresponds toone level;15.2 Setting water hardness1. Press the P button (B4) to enter the menu;2. Turn the selection dial (B2) to select "Water Hardness".3. Confirm the selection by pressing the button (B9);4. Turn the selection dial and set the level shown by the indi-cator paper (C1) (see previous section);5. Press the button to confirm the setting;6. Press the button (B5) to exit the menu.The machine is now reprogrammed with the new water hard-ness setting.16. WATER SOFTENER FILTERCertain models are fitted with a water softener filter (C4). If thisis not the case with your model, you are recommended to pur-chase one from De’Longhi Customer Services.To use the filter correctly, follow the instructions below.16.1 Installing the filter1. Remove the filter (C4) from the packaging;2. Turn the date indicator disk (see fig. 38) until the next twomonths of use are displayed;3938soft waterhard watervery hard waterslightly hard water