Problems With The Printing Quality; Printing Is Faint; Paper Rubs Against The Printhead - Canon imagePROGRAF iPF685 User Manual

Printing is faint

Problems with the printing quality

Problems with the printing quality

Printing is faint ................................................................................................................................................ 584

Paper rubs against the Printhead .................................................................................................................... 584

The edges of the paper are dirty ..................................................................................................................... 585
The surface of the paper is dirty ..................................................................................................................... 586
The back side of the paper is dirty .................................................................................................................. 586
Printed colors are inaccurate .......................................................................................................................... 586
Banding in different colors occurs ................................................................................................................... 587
Colors in printed images are uneven ............................................................................................................... 587
Image edges are blurred or white banding occurs .......................................................................................... 588
The contrast becomes uneven during printing ................................................................................................ 588
The length of printed images is inaccurate in the feeding direction .................................................................. 588
Images are printed crooked ............................................................................................................................ 589
Documents are printed in monochrome .......................................................................................................... 589
Line thickness is not uniform .......................................................................................................................... 589
Lines are misaligned ....................................................................................................................................... 589
Printing is faint
Printing is faint
Cause
You may be printing on the wrong
side of the paper.
The Printhead nozzles are clogged.
Because the printer was left without
ink tanks installed for some time, ink
has become clogged in the ink supply
system.
Paper is jammed inside the Top Cov-
er.
The ink was not dry when paper was
cut.
Printing may be faint if Print Quality
in Advanced Settings in the printer
driver is set to Standard or Fast.
You are printing on paper that tends
to generate dust when cut.
Paper rubs against the Printhead
Paper rubs against the Printhead
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Cause
The type of paper specified in the
printer driver does not match the type
loaded in the printer.
Print on the printing surface.
Print a test pattern to check the nozzles and see if they are clogged.
(See "Checking for Nozzle Clogging.")
After the ink tanks have been installed for 24 hours, run Head Cleaning B from the Control
Panel.
(See "Cleaning the Printhead.")
Follow the steps below to remove the jammed piece of paper inside the Top Cover.
1.
Open the Top Cover and make sure the Carriage is not over the Platen.
2.
Remove any scraps of paper inside the Top Cover.
(See "Clearing Jammed Roll Paper.")
(See "Clearing a Jammed Sheet.")
3.
Close the Top Cover.
Specify a longer drying period in the Control Panel menu, in Paper Details > Roll Drying-
Time.
(See "Menu Settings.")
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In Advanced Settings of the printer driver, choose Highest or High in Print Quality.
Printing in Fast or Standard mode is faster and consumes less ink than in Highest or High
modes, but the printing quality is lower.
(See "Giving Priority to Particular Graphic Elements and Colors for Printing.")
In the Control Panel menu, set CutDustReduct. in Paper Details to On.
(See "Reducing Dust from Cutting Rolls.")
Load paper of the same type as you have specified in the printer driver.
(See "Loading Rolls in the Printer.")
(See "Loading Sheets in the Printer.")
Make sure the same type of paper is specified in the printer driver as you have loaded in the
printer.
Corrective Action
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