Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
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Characters and lines are stacked. Check the printing alignment. (See Checking the print alignment onpage 77.)
Printed text or images are skewed. Make sure the paper is loaded properly in the paper tray and the paper side guide
is adjusted correctly. (See Loading paper and other media onpage 14.)
Make sure the Jam Clear Cover is set properly.
Smudged stain at the top center of
the printed page.
Make sure the paper is not too th ick or curled. (See Acce ptable paper and o ther
media onpage 10.)
Printing appears dirty or ink seems
to run.
Make sure you are using the recomm ended types of paper. (See Acceptable
paper and other media onpage 10.) Don't handle the paper u ntil the ink is dry.
If you are using photo paper, make s ure that you ha ve set the corre ct paper type.
If you are printing a photo from your PC, set the Media Type in the Basic tab of
the printer driver.
Stains appear on the rev erse side
or at the bottom of the page.
Make sure the printer platen is not dirty with ink. (See Cleaning the machine printer
platen on page74.)
Make sure you are using the paper support flap. (See Loading paper and other
media onpage 14.)
The machine prints dense lines on
the page.
Check ReverseOrder in the Basic tab of the printer driver.
The printouts are wrinkled. In the printer driver Basic tab, click Settings, and uncheck Bi-Directional
Printing.
Cannot perform ‘2 in 1 ’ or ‘4 in 1 ’
printing.
Check that the paper size sett ing in the application an d in the printer driver ar e the
same.
Print speed is too sl ow.
Try changing the printer driver setting. The highest resolution needs longer data
processing, sending and printing time. Try the other quality sett ings in the printer driver
Basic
tab. Also, click the
Settings
, and make sure you uncheck
Colour Enhancement
.
Turn the borderless feature off. B orderless printing is slow er than normal printing.
(See Printing for Windows® or Printing and Faxing for Macintosh® in the Software
User's Guide on the CD-ROM.)
Colour Enhancement is not
working properly.
If the image data is not full colou r in your application (such as 256 colour), Colour
Enhancement will not work. Use at least 24 bit colour data with the Colour
Enhancement feature.
Photo paper does not fe ed
properly.
When you print on Brother photo paper, load the instruction sheet included
with the photo paper in the paper tray first, and then put the photo paper on
top of the instruction sheet.
Clean the paper pick-up roller.
(See Cleaning the paper pick-up roller onpa ge 74.)
Machine feeds multiple pages. Make sure the paper is loaded properly in the paper tray. (See Loading paper and
other media on page 14.)
Check that more than two types of paper are not loaded in the paper tray at any
one time.
Printed pages are not stacked
neatly.
Make sure you are using the paper support flap. (See Loading paper and other
media onpage 14.)
Printed pages refeed an d cause a
paper jam.
Make sure you pull out the paper support until it clicks.
Machine does not print from MS
paint.
Try setting the Display setting to ‘256 colours.’
Machine does not print from Adobe
Illustrator.
Try to reduce the print resolution. (See Printing for Windows® or Printing and
Faxing for Macintosh® in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.)
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