Ink drips
o
Are the print head nozzles clogged?
Perform print head cleaning. From the printer's menu,
touch Settings - Maintenance - Print Head
Cleaning.
Fine lines in drawings are not printed
o
Is a suitable resolution set?
Try the following measures.
❏ In your application software, set the resolution to
600 dpi.
❏ Confirm that the data paper size is correctly set in
the printer driver document size, and remedy if
different.
❏ If PDF, print directly from the source data for that
PDF.
❏ In the printer driver, select Emphasize Thin
Lines.
Emphasize Thin Lines is displayed by clearing
the Simple Settings check box in the Print Quality
section on the Printer Settings screen.
Vertical color unevenness occurs
when printing from the auto sheet
feeder
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Are the rollers for the auto sheet feeder dirty?
Dirt on the rollers can cause vertical color unevenness
in the printouts. Try cleaning the rollers. When vertical
color unevenness occurs on glossy paper, we
recommend feeding and printing one sheet at a time
from Cut Sheet(1 sheet) instead of using the auto
sheet feeder.
U “Smearing occurs when printing from the auto
sheet feeder” on page 124
U “Loading Cut Sheet(1 sheet)” on page 34
Differences in color/light/dark
If there are differences in color/light/dark, then handle
these by following the process below.
U “The prints are not what you expected” on
page 121
If these measures do not resolve the issue, check the
following items.
o
Is the Color Density setting appropriate?
If you feel that lines in drawings are too light, then on
the printer driver Advanced screen, click >Paper
Configuration, and increase the ink density.
Conversely, if the ink density is too high on tracing
paper, either reduce the ink density or select Tracing
Paper<LowDuty> as the Paper Type setting on the
printer, and then print.
o
Have you tried changing the print quality
settings?
In the printer driver Printer Settings- Print Quality,
select Print with High Quality and try printing. If this
is not selected, this places priority on speed, however
this can adversely impact print quality to some extent.
o
Have you compared the printing result with
the image on the display monitor?
Since the monitor and the printer produce colors
differently, printed colors will not always match
on-screen colors perfectly.
o
Did you open the front cover while printing?
If the front cover is opened while printing, the print
head stops suddenly, causing unevenness in color. Do
not open the front cover while printing.
o
Make sure the transportation caps are in the
printing position.
If the transportation caps are in the transportation
position, you cannot print because ink is not supplied.
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