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MFC 4550/6550MC/7550MC

OP-US-5.0

	TROUBLESHOOTINGPROCEDURES
General Printing Problems
Question	Recommendation
The MFC prints	• Turn the MFC on and off or reset it.
unexpectedlyorit	• Makesureyourapplicationsoftwareiscorrectlysetuptouse
printsgarbage.	theMFCbycheckingtheprintersettingsinyourapplication
	software.
	• Makesurethatthecorrectinterfacetypeandsettingsareset
	up to match your computer. Be sure to use the RS-422A serial
	interface for Macintosh computers and the RS-232C serial
	interfaceforPCs.Referto“ConnectingtheSerialInterface
	Board (RS100M)” in Chapter 15. (Only for MFC 6550MC/
	7550MC)
The MFC can not print	TheMFCreceivedaverycomplexprintjobandcouldnotprocess
fullpagesofadocument.	part of the page. This may be solved by the following ways.
An error message PRINT	• If you are using Windows® 95 or Windows® 3.1 with the
OVERRUN occurs.	supplied printer driver, see the “Windows® Setup Printing
	Problems”section.
	• Try to reduce the complexity of your document or reduce the
	printresolution.
The MFC prints the first	Thisisaproblemusuallyrelatingtoserialinterfacesettings.
coupleofpagescorrectly,	Yourcomputerisnotrecognizingtheprinter’sinputbufferfull
then some pages have	signal.Causescouldbethewrongtypeofserialcable(incorrectly
text missing. (Only for	wiredortoolong)orincorrectsettingofyourcomputerserial
MFC 6550MC/7550MC)	interface.
The MFC can not print	• Expand the printer memory by installing one of the optional
fullpagesofadocument.	memory boards (ME1000 or ME2000) .
A MEMORY FULL error	• Reducetheprinterresolution.
messageoccurs.	• Reduce the complexity of your document and try again.
	• Reducethegraphicqualityorthenumberoffontsizeswithin
	yourapplicationsoftware.
My headers or footers	Mostlaserprintershavearestrictedareathatwillnotaccept
appear when I view my	print.Usuallythesearethefirsttwolinesandlasttwolines,	Maintenance
document on the screen	leaves62printablelines.Adjustthetopandbottommarginsin
but do not show up when	yourdocumenttoallowforthis.
Iprintthem.

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