Troubleshooting

Improving Print Quality

You can often improve print quality by doing one of the following:

◗ Clean the print head; the print head nozzles may be clogged (see page 5-1for instructions).

◗ Use higher quality paper appropriate for your print job (see page 3-2for a list of EPSON papers).

◗ Match the Media Type setting in the printer settings dialog box to the type of media you loaded in the printer. Then the printer software can automatically select other settings for the best quality (see Chapters 1 and 3 for details).

◗ Turn off High Speed mode (see page 2-4 for details). ◗ Turn off Economy mode (see page 2-4 for details).

◗ Replace the ink cartridges. If an ink cartridge is low on ink (the B black or A color ink out light is flashing) or the ink cartridge is more than six months old, the cartridge should be replaced. See page 5-4 for instructions.

◗ If you have vertical misalignment, run the Print Head

 

Alignment utility (see page 5-8 for instructions) or turn off

 

High Speed mode.

 

Try the solutions listed above before trying these solutions to

 

specific print quality problems.

The printed image has horizontal banding

 

 

Possible cause

Solution

The printable side of the

Remove the paper and reload it with the printable side face up.

paper is face down.

See page 3-2 for instructions.

 

 

The MicroWeave (or

Turn on MicroWeave (or Super MicroWeave) in the More

Super MicroWeave)

Settings dialog box. See page 2-4 for more information.

option is not set.

 

 

 

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