Table of Contents
Advertisement
Solving Problems
Striped Patterns Appear
The bidirectional printing setting is enabled.
Solutions
When printing on plain paper, disable the bidirectional setting.
During bidirectional (or high speed) printing, the print head prints while moving in both directions, and
vertical lines may be misaligned. Disabling this setting may slow down printing speed but improve print
quality.
❏ Control panel
Select Settings > General Settings > Printer Settings, and then disable Bidirectional.
❏ Windows
Clear Bidirectional Printing on the printer driver's More Options tab.
❏ Mac OS
Select System Preferences from the Apple menu > Printers & Scanners (or Print & Scan, Print &
Fax), and then select the printer. Click Options & Supplies > Options (or Driver). Select Off as the
High Speed Printing setting.
The print quality is set to low.
Solutions
When printing on photo paper, print using a higher quality setting.
❏ Control panel
Select Best as the Quality on the Advanced tab in print settings.
❏ Windows
Select High from Quality on the printer driver's Main tab.
❏ Mac OS
Select Fine as Print Quality from the print dialog's Print Settings menu.
Printout Comes Out as a Blank Sheet
>
Printing, Copying, Scanning, and Faxing Quality is Poor
>
245
Print Quality is Poor
Advertisement
Table of Contents
