Troubleshooting Steps

Light Print orFade

 

 

 

Gray Background

 

 

RepeatingDefects

 

 

 

Wrinkles Creasesor

Troubleshooting Steps

 

 

 

Toner Smear

Loose Toner

 

 

Curl or Wave

(Follow the steps in the

 

 

 

Misformed Characters

Page Skew

order they are listed.)

Specks

Dropouts

Lines

 

✓ ✓ ✓

 

1.

Print a few more pages

 

 

 

 

 

to see if the problem

 

 

 

 

 

will correct itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

✓ ✓

 

2.

Clean the inside of the

 

 

 

 

 

printer or use the

 

 

 

 

 

printer’s cleaning

 

 

 

 

 

page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

Make sure

 

 

 

 

 

EconoMode is off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

✓ ✓ 4.

Turn over the stack of

 

 

 

 

 

paper in the tray. Also

 

 

 

 

 

try rotating the paper

 

 

 

 

 

180°.

 

 

 

 

✓ ✓ ✓

✓ ✓ ✓

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5.

Check the paper (or

 

 

 

 

 

other print media) type

 

 

 

 

 

and quality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

✓ ✓ 6.

Check the printer’s

 

 

 

 

 

environmental

 

 

 

 

 

specifications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.

Make sure paper is

 

 

 

 

 

loaded correctly and

 

 

 

 

 

that the guides are not

 

 

 

 

 

too tight or too loose

 

 

 

 

 

against the paper

 

 

 

 

 

stack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

✓ ✓ 8.

Print to a different

 

 

 

 

 

output bin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.

Adjust the toner

 

 

 

 

 

density setting.

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