Color Quality Information; Quality Menu - Lexmark C920 User Manual

Symptom
Solid color pages
The paper curls badly once it prints and
exits to a bin

Color quality information

This section helps you understand how operations available on the printer can be used to adjust and customize color
output.

Quality Menu

Selections available in the Quality Menu provide the user with multiple options that can adjust color characteristics of the
printer.
Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings. Values selected in the printer PostScript or PCL emulation
drivers for Windows will override printer settings.
Menu item
Print Mode
Color
Correction
Print
Resolution
Toner Darkness Lighten or darkens printed output
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Troubleshooting
Cause
• A toner cartridge is
defective.
• Your printer requires
servicing.
• The Type and Weight
settings are not appropriate
for the type of paper or
specialty media you are
using.
• The paper has been stored
in a high humidity
environment.
Purpose
To determine whether images are
printed in a monochrome
grayscale or in color.
To adjust the printed color to
better match the colors of other
output devices or standard color
systems.
Due to the differences between
additive and subtractive colors,
certain colors that appear on the
monitor are impossible to
duplicate on the printer.
Selects the quality of printed
output.
and conserves toner.
Color quality information
Solution
• Replace the toner cartridge.
• Call for service.
• Change Paper Type and Paper Weight
to match the paper or specialty media
loaded in the printer.
• Load paper from a fresh package.
• Store paper in its original wrapper until
you use it.
• See Storing paper.
Values
Color*
Black Only
Auto* Applies different color conversion
tables to each object on the printed
page, depending on the type of object
and how the color for each object is
specified.
Off No color correction is implemented.
Manual Allows customization of the color
conversion tables applied to each
object on the printed page, depending
on the type of object and how the
color for each object is specified.
Customization is performed using the
selections available under the Manual
Color menu item.
2400 IQ*
1 to 5 4* is the default setting.
Select a lower number to lighten the
printed output or save toner.
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