Redistributing toner ............................................................................................................................................ 49
Changing the print cartridge ............................................................................................................................... 51
4 Problem solving .......................................................................................................................................... 53
Finding the solution ............................................................................................................................................. 54
Step 1: Is the printer set up correctly? .............................................................................................. 54
Step 2: Is the Ready light on? ............................................................................................................ 54
Step 3: Can you print a Printer Test page? ....................................................................................... 54
Step 4: Is the print quality acceptable? ............................................................................................ 55
Step 5: Is the printer communicating with the computer? ............................................................... 55
Step 6: Does the printed page look like you expected? ................................................................... 55
Contact HP support ........................................................................................................................... 55
Status light patterns ............................................................................................................................................ 56
Paper handling problems .................................................................................................................................... 58
Media jam .......................................................................................................................................... 58
Print is skewed (crooked) .................................................................................................................. 58
More than one sheet of media feeds through the printer at one time ............................................ 58
Printer does not pull media from the media input tray ................................................................... 58
Printer curled the media ................................................................................................................... 59
Print job is extremely slow ................................................................................................................ 59
Printed page is different than what appeared on screen ................................................................................... 60
Garbled, incorrect, or incomplete text .............................................................................................. 60
Missing graphics or text, or blank pages .......................................................................................... 60
Page format is different than on another printer ............................................................................ 61
Graphics quality ................................................................................................................................. 61
Printer software problems .................................................................................................................................. 62
Improving print quality ........................................................................................................................................ 63
Light or faded print ........................................................................................................................... 63
Toner specks ..................................................................................................................................... 63
Dropouts ............................................................................................................................................ 63
Vertical lines ...................................................................................................................................... 64
Gray background ............................................................................................................................... 64
Toner smear ...................................................................................................................................... 64
Loose toner ....................................................................................................................................... 65
Vertical repetitive defects ................................................................................................................. 65
Misformed characters ....................................................................................................................... 65
Page skew .......................................................................................................................................... 66
Curl or wave ....................................................................................................................................... 66
Wrinkles or creases ........................................................................................................................... 66
Toner scatter outline ......................................................................................................................... 67
Water droplets on bottom edge ....................................................................................................... 67
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