User`s guide

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Troubleshooting
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How to get good image quality
Cause Action
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Media feed is not adjusted properly.
Hint for media advance
correction value
( P.5-23)
–
(1) Set the print quality mode to ON and print the media.
(
P.3-38)
(2) Print the media advance correction pattern and adjust
the media feed amount. (
P.2-38)
(3) Change the pressure force with the pressure control
knob. (
P.2-105)
(4) Print the media advance correction pattern again and
adjust the media feed amount. (
P.2-38)
(5)
Print the media advance correction pattern (QUALITY)
and adjust the media feed amount. ( P.3-47)
(6)
Print the media in the QUALITY print mode. ( P.4-2)
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Nozzle missing of the print head (1) Remove dust or dirt, if any, on the platen.
(2) Perform the daily maintenance. (
P.2-108)
(3) Perform print head cleaning (NORMAL ALL) (
P.2-95),
and then perform nozzle print to check that nozzle
missing has been improved. (
P.3-54)
(4) Perform the fillcap operation and print head cleaning
(NORMAL ALL). Then perform nozzle print to check that
nozzle missing has been improved. (
P.3-54)
(5) Clean the print head surface with a head cleaning sheet.
Then perform nozzle print to check that nozzle missing
has been improved. (
P.3-54)
– Printing with color stripes reduces nozzle-
out. (
P.3-37
)
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The ink does not match well with
the media./Ink dries fast.
(1) Print the media advance correction pattern and adjust
the media feed amount. (
P.2-38)
– Hint for media advance correction value
(
P.5-23
)
(2) Lower the heater temperature. ( P.2-101)
(3) Print the media in the QUALITY print mode.
(
P.4-2)
(4) Print the media in the DENSITY print mode.
(
P.4-2)
(5) Use proven media.