User guide
Table Of Contents
- Before Beginning
- Setting Up Printer (Printer Setup)
- Using Your Printer
- Print Media Guidelines
- Loading Print Media
- Operator Panel
- Printing
- Know Your Printer
- Maintaining Your Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting
- Basic Printer Problems
- Display Problems
- Printing Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- The output is too light
- Toner smears or print comes off/Stain on back side
- Random spots/Blurred images
- The entire output is blank
- Streaks appear on the output
- Pitched color dots
- Vertical blanks
- Mottle
- Ghosting
- Fog
- Bead-Carry-Out (BCO)
- Auger mark
- Wrinkled/Stained paper
- The top margins is incorrect
- Color registration is out of alignment
- Protrudent / Bumpy paper
- Noise
- Jam
- Other Problems
- Contacting Service
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Index
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2 Contents
5 Connecting Your Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting Printer to Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Turning On the Printer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6 Loading Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7 Installing Printer Drivers on Computers Running
Windows 41
Inserting the Drivers and Utility CD . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing Printer Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
For installing host-based printer driver
. . . . . . 41
For installing XML Paper Specification (XPS) printer driver 41
8 Installing Printer Drivers on Computers Running
Macintosh 45
Installing the Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adding a Printer on Mac OS X 10.5 or Later Version(s)
45
Adding a Printer on Mac OS X 10.4.11
. . . . . . . 46
Adding a Printer on Mac OS X 10.3.9
. . . . . . . . 46
Using Your Printer .....................................47
9 Print Media Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Paper Characteristics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49