HP 2045 manual Other Printing Problems, Problem Causes, Descriptions, and Solutions

Troubleshooting

Other Printing Problems

		Problem	Causes, Descriptions, and Solutions
		The print on the	If Toner Saver is selected in the [Print Quality] tab on the printer driver tab,
		entire page is fad-	the entire page will be faded when printed.
		ed.	See the printer driver Help.
		The print smudg-	Settings for thick paper have not been made when printing on thick paper.
		es.	• PCL 6/5e and PostScript 3
			Select [Thick] for [Type] on the printer driver [Paper] tab.
			• RPCS™
			Select [Thick] for [Paper Type] on the printer driver [Print Settings] tab.
		When printing	If the printer driver is configured to use the graphics command, the graph-
4		graphics, the out-	ics command from the machine is used to print.
		put and the screen	If you want to print accurately, set the printer driver to print without using
		are different.	the graphics command.
			See the printer driver Help.
		Page layout is not	Print areas differ depending on machine used. Information that fits on a
		as expected.	single page on one machine may not fit on a single page of another ma-
			chine.
			Adjust the [Printable area] setting in the [Printer Configuration] dialog box on
			the [Print Settings] tab in the RPCS™ printer driver.
			See the printer driver Help.
		Duplex printing is	• Duplex printing cannot be done with paper set in the bypass tray.
		malfunctioning.	When using duplex printing, make settings to use paper from a tray
			other than the bypass tray.
			• Duplex printing cannot be done with thick paper, OHP transparencies,
			or labels specified as the paper type. Specify another paper type.
			• Duplex printing cannot be done with a tray for which [1-Sided Copy] has
			been specified as Paper Type on the System Settings menu. Change the
			Paper Type setting for the tray to [2-Sided Copy] on the System Settings
			menu. See General Settings Guide.
		When using Win-	Make sure the application's paper size and orientation settings match those
		dows 95/98/Me,	of the printer driver.
		Windows 2000/	If a different paper size and orientation are set, select the same size and ori-
		XP, or Windows
			entation.
		NT4.0, either com-
		bined printing or
		booklet print does
		not come out as ex-
		pected.
		When using Win-
		dows 95/98/Me,
		Windows 2000/XP,
		or Windows NT4.0,
		Auto Reduce/En-
		large print does not
		come out as expect-
	28	ed.