Other Printing Problems

 

 

 

 

 

Status

Possible Causes, Descriptions, and Solutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black or white lines appear

The charger and dust-proofing glass are dirty. Clean

 

 

on the print side.

the charger and dust-proofing glass. ⇒ P.42 “Cleaning

 

 

 

the Charger” and P.43 “Cleaning the Dust-proofing glass”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smeared toner appears on

The charger is dirty. Clean the charger. ⇒ P.42 “Clean-

 

 

the printed side.

ing the Charger”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part of the printout is blurred

If the message “TONER LOW XXX” is on the panel dis-

 

 

or light.

play, replace the toner cartridge for the indicated color.

 

 

 

⇒ P.45 “Replacing the Toner Cartridge”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toner is not fused well when

The printer is not in thick paper or OHP transparency

 

 

printing on thick paper or

mode. Select thick paper or OHP transparency mode

 

 

OHP transparencies.

using the printer driver. For more information, see the

 

 

 

"User's Guide”.

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

The color of the printout

The toner based color system used by the printer is dif-

 

 

 

doesn't match the color on

ferent from the light based color system of the comput-

 

 

the computer's display.

er screen. For more information, see the "User's

 

 

 

Guide”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recalibrate the printer using the operation panel. For

 

 

 

more information, see the "Getting Started”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change the printer driver settings. For more informa-

 

 

 

tion, see the "User's Guide”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Color documents are printed

The printer driver is not set up for color printing.

 

 

in black and white.

Change the setting to color printing. For more informa-

 

 

 

tion, see the "User's Guide".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thin lines are blurred or

Change the halftone settings of the printer driver. For

 

 

light.

more information, see the "User's Guide”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When printing on OHP

There is no paper in tray 1. Load the same size and di-

 

 

transparencies, a sheet of pa-

rection paper as the OHP transparency into tray 1.

 

 

per is not placed between

 

 

 

The "OHP SLIP SHEET” setting is set to "NO”. Change

 

 

printed OHP transparencies.

 

 

the setting with operation panel. For more information,

 

 

 

see the "Getting Started”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

If you cannot solve the problem by taking above actions, contact your sales or service representative.

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