Printer Troubleshooting Tips
Just like others electronics items, printers can also create problem. The problem is related to dud ink cartridge, paper jam and a drive issue. Here, I am giving you information about some common printers’ problems that will help you to solve the problem without assistance of any technician.Paper Jam Problem
Paper jam is the common troubleshooting problem while working with printer. For instance, you are printing some essential documents, all of a sudden the printer starts eating distinctive crunch of papers. In this time, you need to cancel the printer job and flip open it immediately. To remove the problem of paper jam, you need to pull the paper gently in the direction of printing paper path. You should not pull the paper backward at any cost because it will damage your printer.
The Missing Driver
Missing driver is common problem of printer. You have geared up your printer to the job while your system fails to find the right driver. If you are facing this problem, you should install the compatible driver from vendor website or you can seek assistance from printer manual. You can search it by yourself by typing printer model, company name to find the right driver.
Picking up All Papers
It is really frustrating when you are trying to print and the printer feeds the whole paper stack instead of getting one piece at one time. First, you should sure that you fan the paper edge properly before putting in the feed tray of printer. It can easily separate the paper sheets. This problem can arise if you store your paper at cool places. Keep your paper at dry place to avoid this problem.
Blank Page Syndrome
If you install a new ink cartridge in printer but you are getting blank page coming out. The simple solution of this problem is that you should remove the sticker placed on ink cartridge before fixing it in the printer. You also need to run function of clean print head that will remove all air bubbles from your printer. You should not remove ink cartridge when you have already installed it.
Print Quality
Low print quality problem occurs when one ink well is working in low mode. This problem will display your image in blue or purple colors. To resolve this problem, you need to replace the ink cartridge of the printer and refill the ink wells as well.
Smudgy Printout
The problem of smudgy printout occurs when you try to print out paper of having a lot of vibrant and bright colored images. It happens due to wrong selection of paper settings. When you are printing text document, do not try to print it at high resolution quality. Or if you are printing photo paper, you should set it to high quality.
Printer connection to computer
When your system fails to connect with printer, you need to check the cable connection. You can also read printer and computer manual to make them compatible with each other.
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