Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and Trademarks
- Contents
- Safety Instructions
- Getting to Know Your Printer
- Printer Features and Various Printing Options
- Paper Handling
- Using the Printer Software with Windows
- About the Printer Software
- Making Changes to Printer Settings
- Making the print quality settings
- Duplex printing
- Displaying information about consumables with the printer driver
- Ordering Consumables
- Resizing printouts
- Modifying the print layout
- Using a watermark
- Using headers and footers
- Using an overlay
- Using storage form overlay
- Making Extended Settings
- Making Optional Settings
- Printing a status sheet
- Using the Reserve Job Function
- Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor
- Setting Up the USB Connection
- Canceling Printing
- Uninstalling the Printer Software
- Sharing the Printer on a Network
- Using the Printer Software with Macintosh
- Using the PostScript Printer Driver
- Using the PCL6/PCL5 Printer Driver
- Using the Control Panel
- Installing Options
- Replacing Consumable Products
- Cleaning and Transporting the Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Clearing Jammed Paper
- Printing a Status Sheet
- Operational Problems
- Printout Problems
- Color Printing Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- Memory Problems
- Paper Handling Problems
- Problems Using Options
- Correcting USB Problems
- Status and Error Messages
- Canceling Printing
- Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode
- The printer does not print
- The printer driver or printer that you need to use does not appear in the Printer Setup Utility (Mac OS 10.3.x and 10.4.x), Print Center (Mac OS 10.2.x), or Chooser (Mac OS 9)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The printer fonts cannot be installed
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth
- The printer does not print normally via the USB interface
- The printer does not print normally via the network interface
- An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only)
- Insufficient memory to print data (Macintosh only)
- Customer Support
- Technical Specifications
- Index

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EPSON AcuLaser C3800 User's Guide
Chapter 12 Troubleshooting
Clearing Jammed Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Precautions for clearing jammed paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Paper Jam MP C1 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Paper Jam C1 A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Paper Jam C2 C1 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Paper Jam A B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Paper Jam A D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Printing a Status Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Operational Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The Ready light does not turn on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The printer does not print (Ready light off) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The Ready light is on but nothing prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
The optional product is not available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
The amount of a toner remaining is not updated (For Windows users only) . . . . . . . . 260
Printout Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
The font cannot be printed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Printout is garbled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
The printout position is not correct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Misalignment of colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Graphics do not print correctly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Transparencies are output blank from the MP tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Color Printing Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Cannot print in color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
The printout color differs when printed from different printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
The color looks different from what you see on the computer screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Print Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
The background is dark or dirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
White dots appear in the printout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Print quality or tone is uneven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Half-tone images print unevenly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Toner smudges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Areas are missing in the printed image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Completely blank pages are output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
The printed image is light or faint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
The non-printed side of the page is dirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Print quality decreased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Insufficient memory for current task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Insufficient memory to print all copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Paper Handling Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Paper does not feed properly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Problems Using Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
The message Invalid AUX /IF Card appears on the LCD panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269