Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Printer Hardware
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Printer Does Not | Print Head has | Stop printing and turn the printer off for at least 15 minutes to allow the Print Head | |||||
Start or Printer | overheated due to | to cool down. |
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Stops During | long periods of | The Print Head tends to overheat when printing continuously for long periods of | |||||
Print Jobs | continuous printing | time. The Print Head is designed to automatically pause at line breaks before | |||||
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| Caution | The area around the Print Head can become extremely hot during | |||
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| extended print operation. Always avoid touching the Print Head and |
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| Printing high- | Wait until the print job finishes. | |||||
| resolution | The POWER lamp flashes green while the print data is being processed. Printing | |||||
| photographs and | photographs and | |||||
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| Printer cable is too | Avoid using USB cables longer than 16.4 feet. | |||||
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| There may be | Restart your computer. It may solve the problem. | |||||
| problems in your | Delete an undesired print job if there is any. Use BJ Status Monitor in Windows or | |||||
| operating system | Printer Setup Utility in Macintosh for the deletion. If you are using the OS other | |||||
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| than Mac OS X v.10.3, use the Print Center for deletion. | |||||
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| 1. | Open the Printer Properties dialog box. | ||||
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| See "Opening the Printer Properties Dialog Box from Your Application Program" | |||
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| 2. | Click Maintenance tab and then Start Status Monitor. | ||||
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| 3. | Click Display Print Queue. | ||||
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| 4. | Select Cancel All Documents in the Printer menu. | ||||
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| When the confirmation messages is displayed, click Yes. | |||
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| The print job is deleted. | |||
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| Note | In Windows Me or Windows 98 | ||
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| Click to select an undesired document and select Purge Print |
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| Documents in the Printer menu. |
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| 1. | Select Applications from the Go menu. | ||||
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| If you are using the OS other than Mac OS X v.10.3, | |||
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| Center icon. | |||
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| 4. | Click to select an undesired document and click . | ||||
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| The print job is deleted. | |||
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Cannot Print to | Incorrect page size | Ensure that the page size setting matches the size of the paper loaded in the | |||||
End of Job | selected | printer: |
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| - | Check the Paper Size setting from within your application to ensure that it | ||||
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| matches the size of the paper loaded. | |||
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| - | Check the Page Setup tab in the Printer Properties dialog box (for Windows) or | ||||
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| the Page Setup dialog box (for Macintosh) to ensure that it matches the size of | |||
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| the paper loaded. | |||
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| Not enough free | Your operating system may be out of free disk space. | |||||
| space on hard disk | Check the available space on your computer’s hard disk. | |||||
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