Problems With The Printing Quality; Printing Is Faint; Paper Rubs Against The Printhead - Canon imagePROGRAF iPF760 User Manual

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Problems with the printing quality

Problems with the printing quality

Printing is faint .................................................................................................................................................... 613

Paper rubs against the Printhead ...................................................................................................................... 613

The edges of the paper are dirty ....................................................................................................................... 614
The surface of the paper is dirty ........................................................................................................................ 615
The back side of the paper is dirty .................................................................................................................... 615
Printed colors are inaccurate ............................................................................................................................. 615
Banding in different colors occurs ..................................................................................................................... 616
Colors in printed images are uneven ................................................................................................................. 616
Image edges are blurred or white banding occurs ........................................................................................... 617
The contrast becomes uneven during printing .................................................................................................. 617
The length of printed images is inaccurate in the feeding direction .................................................................. 618
Images are printed crooked ............................................................................................................................... 618
Documents are printed in monochrome ............................................................................................................ 618
Line thickness is not uniform .............................................................................................................................. 618
Lines are misaligned .......................................................................................................................................... 619
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 be-
come clogged in the ink supply system.
Paper is jammed inside the Top Cover.
The ink was not dry when paper was cut.
Printing may be faint if Print Quality in Ad-
vanced 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
Cause
The type of paper specified in the printer
driver does not match the type loaded in
the printer.
User's Guide
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 Pan-
el.
(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 DryingTime.
(See "Menu Settings.")
→P.495
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 print-
er.
Corrective Action
→P.575
→P.576
→P.604
→P.607
→P.460
Corrective Action
→P.442
→P.461
Printing is faint
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