Understanding the printer messages
Message | What this message means | What you can do |
Not Ready | The printer is not ready to receive or | Press Go to make the printer ready to |
| process data. Someone pressed Stop to | receive jobs. |
| take the printer offline. |
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Performing Self Test | The printer is running the series of | Wait for the message to clear. |
| tests it performs after it is turned on. |
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Power Saver | The printer is ready to receive and process | • Send a job to print. |
| data. It is reducing its electricity | • Press Go to quickly warm the printer to |
| consumption while idle. If the printer | normal operating temperature and |
| remains inactive for the period of time | display the Ready message. |
| specified in the Power Saver menu item (30 |
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| minutes is the factory default), the Power |
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| Saver message replaces the Ready |
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Printing Directory List | The printer is processing or printing a | Wait for the message to clear. |
| directory of all files stored in flash memory |
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| or on a hard disk. |
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Printing Font List | The printer is processing or printing a list of | Wait for the message to clear. |
| all available fonts for the specified printer |
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| language. |
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Printing Menu Settings | The printer is processing or printing the | Wait for the message to clear. |
| menu settings page. |
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Printing Quality Test Pages | The printer is formatting and printing the | Wait for the message to clear. |
| Print Quality Test, which consists of 4 |
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| pages. Page 1 contains a mixture of |
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| graphics and text, pages 2 and 3 contain |
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| only graphics, and page 4 is a blank page. |
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| If Duplex is turned on, then the pages will |
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| be duplexed; otherwise, they are |
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| simplexed. |
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Prog Engine Code | The printer is programming new engine | Wait for the message to clear and the |
DO NOT POWER OFF | code. | printer to reset. |
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| Warning: Do not turn the printer off while |
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| this message is displayed. |
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Prog System Code | The printer is programming new system | Wait for the message to clear and the |
DO NOT POWER OFF | code. | printer to reset. |
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| Warning: Do not turn the printer off while |
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| this message is displayed. |
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Program Flash | The printer is storing resources, such as | Wait for the message to clear. |
DO NOT POWER OFF | fonts or macros, in flash memory. | Warning: Do not turn the printer off while |
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| this message is displayed. |
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Ready | The printer is ready to receive and process | Send a job to print. |
| print jobs. |
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Ready Hex | The printer is in Hex Trace mode and is | • Send a job to print. All data sent to the |
| ready to receive and process print jobs. | printer is printed in hexadecimal and |
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| character representation. Control strings |
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| are printed, not executed. |
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| • Turn the printer off and then on to exit |
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| Hex Trace mode and return to Ready |
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| status. |
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Res Reduced | The printer is reducing the resolution of a | Press Menu to open the Job Menu, and |
| page in the current job from 600 dots per | cancel the current job. |
| inch (dpi) to 300 dpi to prevent a |
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| 38 Memory Full error. Res Reduced |
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| remains on the display while the job prints. |
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