Brother HL-1030, 1240, 1250 service manual Skew, Curl or Wave

CHAPTER 6 TROUBLESHOOTING

F-3

Page skew

User Check

(1)Check that the paper or other media is loaded into the paper cassette correctly and that the paper guides are not too tight or too loose against the paper stack.

(2)If using the manual feed slot, check how to load paper into the manual feed slot correctly.

(3)The paper cassette may be too full. Load paper below 27mm in depth.

(4)Check the paper used meets the recommended paper specifications.

F-4

Curl or Wave

User Check

(1)Check the paper used meets the recommended paper specifications. Both high temperature and humidity will cause paper to curl.

(2)If the printer is used infrequently, the paper may have sat for too long in the paper cassette. Turn over the stack of paper in the paper cassette. Also, try rotating the paper 180° in the paper cassette.

(3)Try printing using the straight-through output path.

NOTE:

For no paper supplied as the cause of a malfunction, see ‘M-4 No paper supplied’ in Section 6 ‘Malfunctions’.

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