Kodak 8650 manual Fingerprints have caused

Troubleshooting the printer

Multicolored spots		• Clean the printer and the surrounding
appear on prints.		area.
		• Move the printer away from ventilation
		ducts or open doors.
Smudges, smears, and	Fingerprints or other	Handle media and ribbon carefully and as
fingerprints have caused	oils have contaminated	described in Chapter 2 of this guide.
irregularly shaped and	the paper or ribbon.	Use only KODAK EKTATHERM XLS
colored areas to appear		XTRALIFE color ribbon.
on the print. (See image
1 at the end of this
guide.)
Printer initializes, but		• Disconnect and reconnect the interface
does not enter the		cable.
READY state.		• Restart the printer.
		If the problem persists, service is required.
Edges of transparency		• Put prints in transparency sleeves.
material curl on dense		• Try using the Printer Driver or Export
prints.
		Module’s Mirror option, which will change
		the way that ink is applied to the page.
Paper does not feed.		• Look at the paper. Remove sheets with
		irregularities.
		• Reduce the size of the stack of media in
		the paper tray.
		• Make sure that the blue stiffener sheet is
		at the bottom of the paper tray.
Printer does not respond	You may have	1. Make sure the cover is closed.
when you press buttons.	pressed invalid	2. Reinsert the paper tray.
	buttons.	3. Restart the printer.
		4. Make sure the printer is in READY mode.

4-10 October 1997