If your printout is faint or has gaps in the image . . .
■Make sure the print head nozzles are not clogged. To clean the print head, see page 27.
■Make sure your paper isn’t damaged, old, dirty, or loaded face down (the printable surface should be loaded face up). If it is, reload a new stack of paper with the printable side up.
If your printout is grainy . . .
■Try using a higher quality paper.
■Make sure you set the Quality/Speed slider to the Quality setting in our printer software; see page 15 (Windows) or page 17 (Macintosh) for instructions.
■Run the Print Head Alignment Utility. See page 35 for instructions.
■You may need to increase the image resolution or print it in a smaller size. See your application software documentation for instructions.
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If your printout contains incorrect or missing colors . . .
■Make sure the Ink setting is set to Color for color images.
■Make sure the print head nozzles are clean. See page 27 for instructions.
■Make sure the ink cartridges aren’t low on ink or too old. If either ink out light is flashing, replace the ink cartridge; see page 30. If your ink cartridge is more than six months old, see page 33.
■Try using Automatic mode. See page 15 (Windows) or page 17 (Macintosh) for instructions.
■With Photoshop 5.0, make sure you’re not using two color management options at the same time; see page 26 for details.
■Your printed colors can never exactly match your