Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
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Printed text or images are skewed.
Make sure the paper is loaded properly in the paper tray and the paper side guide
is adjusted correctly. (See
Make sure the Jam Clear cover is set properly.
Smudged stain at the top center of
the printed page.
Make sure the paper is not too thick or curled. (See
Printing appears dirty or ink seems
to run.
Make sure you are using the recommended types of paper. (See
on page 10.) Don't handle the paper until the ink is dry.
Stains appear on the reverse side
or at the bottom of the page.
Make sure the printer platen is not dirty with ink. (See
Make sure you are using the paper support flap. (See
The machine prints dense lines on
the page.
Check
Reverse Order
in the
Basic
tab of the printer driver.
The printouts are wrinkled.
In the printer driver
Basic
tab, click
Settings
, and uncheck
Bi-Directional
Printing
.
Cannot perform ‘2 in 1
’ or ‘4 in 1
’
printing.
Check that the paper size setting in the application and in the printer driver are the
same.
Print speed is too slow.
Try changing the printer driver setting. The highest resolution needs longer data
processing, sending and printing time. Try the other quality settings in the printer
driver
Basic
tab. Also, click the
Settings
tab, and make sure you uncheck
Colour
Enhancement
.
Set the borderless feature off. Borderless printing is slower than normal printing.
(See
Printing for Windows
®
or Printing and Faxing for Macintosh
®
in the Software
User's Guide on the CD-ROM
.)
Colour Enhancement is not
working properly.
If the image data is not full colour in your application (such as 256 colour), Colour
Enhancement will not work. Use at least 24 bit colour data with the Colour
Enhancement feature.
Machine feeds multiple pages.
Make sure the paper is loaded properly in the paper tray. (See
Check that more than two types of paper are not loaded in the paper tray at any
one time.
Printed pages are not stacked
neatly.
Make sure you are using the paper support flap. (See
Printed pages re-feed and cause a
paper jam.
Make sure you pull out the paper support until it clicks and unfold the paper
support flap.
Machine does not print from Paint
Brush.
Try setting the Display setting to ‘256 colours’.
Machine does not print from Adobe
Illustrator.
Try to reduce the print resolution. (See
Printing
for Windows
®
or
Printing and
Faxing
for Macintosh
®
in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.)
The machine cannot print full pages
of a document.
Out of Memory
message occurs.
Reduce the printing resolution. (See
Printing
for Windows
®
or
Printing and Faxing
for Macintosh
®
in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.)
Reduce the complexity of your document and try again. Reduce the graphic
quality or the number of font sizes within your application software.
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