Epson B163A Your printout is grainy, You see wrong or missing colors, Your printout is faint or has gaps

Your printout is faint or has gaps.

■Clean the print head; see page 33 for instructions.

■The ink cartridges may be old or low on ink; see page 35.

■Select the correct Type (Windows) or Media Type (Macintosh) for your paper; see page 21.

■Make sure your paper isn’t damaged, old, dirty, or loaded face down. If it is, load new paper face up. For best results, use genuine EPSON paper.

Your printout is grainy.

■Use a higher quality paper or select a higher Quality Type (Windows; page 11) or Print Quality (Macintosh; page 13).

■Align the print head; see page 39 for instructions.

■Increase the image resolution or print it in a smaller size; see your software documentation.

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 33 for instructions.

■The ink cartridges may be old or low on ink; see page 35.

■Try turning off PhotoEnhance™. Also check if you’re using a special effect that alters image colors, like Sepia.

■Try using Automatic mode (Macintosh only); see page 13 (OS 8.6 to 9.x) or page 15 (OS X).

■Try changing the Gamma setting; see page 17 (Windows) or page 20 (Macintosh).

■Your printed colors can never exactly match your on-screen colors. However, you can use a color management system— such as ICM (Windows; see page 17) or ColorSync (Macintosh; see page 19)—to get as close as possible.

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