Improving Image Quality

Symptom

Possible Cause

Action

Unintended markings appear

The Original Pad is dirty.

Wipe the Original Pad clean

along the edges of the copy.

 

with a soft cloth.

 

The selected paper size is

Specify a paper size that is

 

larger than the original

appropriate to the original

 

document (zoom ratio is set

document.

 

to full size 100%)

 

 

The original document is not

Place the original document

 

placed in the proper

correctly on the Original

 

orientation on the Original

Glass.

 

Glass (zoom ratio is set to

 

 

full size 100%)

 

 

The zoom ratio setting does

Select a suitable zoom ratio

 

not match the size of the

setting.

 

original document.

 

The copy appears uneven or

The original document has

Set the scale of the original

at a tilt.

not been set properly.

document properly.

 

 

Adjust the Document Guide

 

 

Plates properly when the

 

 

original document is placed

 

 

into the Automatic

 

 

Document Feeder.

 

There is an obstruction on

Remove the obstruction and

 

the Original Glass (when

wipe the Original Glass clean

 

using the Automatic

with a soft cloth.

 

Document Feeder).

 

6 - 2

Service and Supplies