Clicking sound during cleaning cycle.

I am having problems with a MX922 printer.  In general it prints fine, but during a cleaning cycle I get a clicking sound.  It still appears to be working, but my wife does not like the sound and thinks it is about to stop.  What could be causing the clicking sound?

Plan on the hard disk drive replacement, and consider the ways
available to back-up the content of the current hard drive; that
may be just your personal saved works, up to and including
some extensive music or photo libraries...
Learning how to make a bootable clone on an externally enclosed
hard disk drive, testing it to be sure, and then running from that
external until the day you get a new hard disk drive installed, is a
way (among several) to have a working backup. Simplistic.
And a full computer drive clone is what I am referring to, not some
updated partial file which leaves you without the bulk of the goods.
A clicking sound is classic drive issue noise; and at least you do
have some advance warning. Even if the SMART results as seen
in Disk Utility suggest the hard drive passed some test, it can go.
While it is running, the content could be cloned to a larger drive
in an external enclosure (capable of booting the computer) and
the drive should be an SATA similar to that in the iMac, if you
decide to mechanically swap the drive out at a later time. In any
event, the content on a failed drive is harder to access or save.
Good luck & happy computing!

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