C Troubleshootingmaintenance and routine

Troubleshooting

IMPORTANT

For technical help, you must call the country where you bought the machine. Calls must be made from within that country.

If you are having difficulty with your machine

If you think there is a problem, check the chart below and follow the troubleshooting tips. You can solve most problems by yourself.

If you need additional help, the Brother Solutions Center offers the latest FAQs and troubleshooting tips.

Visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/.

Copy quality difficulties

 

 

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Difficulties

Suggestions

Vertical black lines appears in

Black vertical lines on copies are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid on the

 

copies.

glass strip, or one of the corona wires for printing is dirty. (See Cleaning the

 

 

scanner on page 82 and Cleaning the corona wires on page 87.)

 

 

 

 

Printing difficulties

 

 

 

 

 

Difficulties

Suggestions

 

No printout.

„ Check that the machine is plugged in and the power switch is turned on.

 

 

„ Check that the toner cartridges and drum unit are installed properly. (See

 

 

Replacing the drum unit on page 106.)

 

 

„ Check the interface cable connection on both the machine and your computer.

 

 

(See the Quick Setup Guide.)

 

 

„ Check that the correct printer driver has been installed and chosen.

 

 

„ Check to see if the LCD is showing an error message. (See Error and

 

 

maintenance messages on page 65.)

 

 

„ Check that the machine is online:

 

 

(For Windows Vista®)

 

 

Click the Start button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then

 

 

Printers. Right-clickBrother DCP-XXXX Printer. Make sure that Use Printer

 

 

Offline is unchecked.

 

 

(For Windows® XP and Windows Server® 2003)

 

 

Click the Start button and select Printers and Faxes. Right-click Brother

 

 

DCP-XXXX Printer. Make sure that Use Printer Offline is unchecked.

 

 

(For Windows® 2000)

 

 

Click the Start button and select Settings and then Printers. Right-click

 

 

Brother DCP-XXXX Printer. Make sure that Use Printer Offline is

 

 

unchecked.

 

 

 

 

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