Care and Maintenance

Troubleshooting

 

 

 

Trouble

Possible Cause

Corrective Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A single colour is not

The toner is almost depleted.

Replace the colour toner

uniform or many vertical

 

developer.

streaks (both light and

 

 

dark) of slightly differ-

 

 

ent density and non-

 

 

uniform colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half tone area has areas

Paper doesn’t match the

Try fresh paper, or another

of weak colour.

environmental conditions, or

type of paper.

 

 

 

 

it has too much moisture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Store media in the original,

 

 

 

 

 

dust-free package in the

 

 

 

 

 

same environmental condi-

 

 

 

 

 

tions as the printer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A single colour appears

The colour density is set

Check the density setting by

faded.

incorrectly in the printer

printing the Colour Calibra-

 

 

 

 

panel.

tion Page in the Colour

 

 

 

 

 

Calibration menu from the

 

 

 

 

 

printer panel. Compare the

 

 

 

 

 

settings with the colour

 

 

 

 

 

density samples on the Colour

 

 

 

 

 

Calibration Reference and, if

 

 

 

 

 

necessary, adjust the density

 

 

 

 

 

from the printer panel. Refer

 

 

 

 

 

to Setting the Colour Density

 

 

 

 

 

on page 31.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The toner is almost depleted.

Replace the colour toner

 

 

 

 

 

developer soon (depending on

 

 

 

 

 

the complexity of your prints,

 

 

 

 

 

you can continue to print up

 

 

 

 

 

to 100 more pages).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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