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Printing Issues and Its Solutions for Inkjet Printers
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Posted On :
Oct-01-2011
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Printers may will give error once in while, make yourself familiar with its simple solutions may save your day.
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So you want to print documents or pictures from your computer or any portable device connected to your printer and suddenly you get an error. What can you do next? Listed below are printer common error and its solutions.
Error 1: Printer prints special characters or symbols
Possible cause: Printer driver is corrupted or incompatible.
Possible solution:
1. Reinstall printer driver using the utility disk that comes with the printer. You may also try to download driver files from the manufacturer’s support page to make sure that you are getting the latest and most stable driver version.
Error 2: Printer is not responding after printing from the application.
Possible cause: Printer is not properly connected to the computer or simply turned off (off-line).
Possible solution:
1. Check the printer if it is turned on.
2. Test the connection of the printer to the computer. Today, printer may now be connected with wire or wireless. Make sure that the printer is properly connected and setup to the computer. Make a test print after securing its connectivity.
Error 3: Printer head or ink cartridge cannot travel full horizontal distance.
Possible cause: Printer head or ink cartridge may be obstructed by papers from a paper jam or tape from papers or its packaging. Do not turn on the printer until obstruction is completely removed. This error may severely damage the printer motor.
Possible solution:
1. Check and remove slowly the obstruction by opening the printer cover. Most printers have special access to remove paper jams.
Error 4: Printer is acting like printing but no print outs.
Possible cause: Empty ink cartridge or ink has been dried.
Possible solution:
1. Replace ink cartridge
2. Clean ink cartridge head to remove dried ink blocking the head ink holes.
3. Perform ink cleaning process available in printer management tool.
Error 5: Wrong details in printout. Wrong coloring for picture and wrong formatting for text.
Possible cause: The ink cartridge is either clogged or running out of ink.
Possible solution:
1. Replace ink cartridge
2. Clean ink cartridge head to remove dried ink blocking the head ink holes.
3. Perform ink cleaning process available in printer management tool.
Error 6: Texts or pictures are faded.
Possible cause: One or more inkwells in the printer cartridge are running out of ink.
Possible solution:
1. Replace ink cartridge
2. Clean ink cartridge head to remove dried ink blocking the head ink holes.
3. Perform ink cleaning process available in printer management tool.
Error 7: Print out is smeared.
Possible cause: Wrong paper settings in printer settings. This is especially true if you are printing photos using ordinary papers when you should be printing it on a photo papers.
Possible solution:
1. Match the paper setting with printer settings.
2. Perform ink cleaning process available in printer management tool before printing.
Error 8: Often paper jams.
Possible cause:
1. Overloaded paper feeder bin.
2. Temperature. This may cause the paper to stick together.
3. Crumpled papers.
Possible solutions:
1. Remove excess paper in the feeder bin.
2. Shuffle the papers to make sure that they are not sticking to each other.
3. Do not put crumpled papers.
For software and driver related solutions always try to download latest and stable file from the manufacturer’s support page or use driver tool, for HP printers use this link: HP Printer Drivers
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Printing Issues and Its Solutions for Inkjet Printers_87879.aspx
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Author Resource :
Personal and professional experiences that may hopefully help other people troubleshoot their own computers especially HP Printer Drivers
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Keywords :
HP Printer Drivers, HP Printers, Printer, Printer Troubleshooting,
Category :
Computers
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Software
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