Your printout is faint or has gaps.
■Clean the print head; see page 57 for instructions.
■The ink cartridges may be old or low on ink; see page 59.
■Select the correct Type (Windows) or Media Type (Macintosh); see page 32.
■Make sure your paper isn’t damaged, old, dirty, or loaded face down. For best results, use genuine EPSON paper.
Your printout is grainy.
■Use a higher quality paper or select a higher Quality Type (Windows; page 28) or Print Quality (Macintosh; page 30).
■Align the print head as described on page 65.
■Increase the image resolution or print it in a smaller size; see your software documentation.
■Make sure you’re not printing a PostScript® file.
You see wrong or missing colors.
■Make sure Black Ink Only is off (Windows) or Color ink is selected (Macintosh), even when printing black and white photographs.
■Clean the print head; see page 57 for instructions.
■The ink cartridges may be old or low on ink; see page 59.
■Try turning off PhotoEnhance.™ Also check if you’re using a special effect that alters image colors, like Sepia.
■If the contrast looks weak or detail is missing from the shadows, turn off EPSON Natural Color (Macintosh) or
EPSON Vivid Color
(Windows).
■Try changing the Gamma setting. See page 28 (Windows) or page 30 (Macintosh).
■Your printed colors can never exactly match your
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