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Posted on Dec 11, 2007

Poor printer copies

My black copies have a white line running thru the words about every 6 lines. My colored photos also have lines in them. I followed the instructions on cleaning the heads. I just put new Dell ink in, but it hasn't helped.

  • Anonymous Dec 17, 2007

    I have the exact problem. I have cleaned the heads, done alignments, replaced cartridges, shaken it (as suggested by one website !) sanded the rollers in case it was a feeder problem. Nothing has worked for me. Have you found a solution yet?? Thanks, Jadee

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Hi Jeru (and Guest with the same problem),

When I take into account the effort you've taken to ensure that your printer's consumable hardware is not at fault, I think it is safe to say that the problem lies in corrupt communication between your PC's operating system and your printer.

Since correct communication between a PC and a device is the function of the device's driver, and seeing as to how a driver may become corrupt over time by normal operations performed on a PC (like installing and uninstalling other software, drivers and services) I suggest you

1.) download the latest driver for your printer at
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=PRN_ALL_A942&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=
2.) uninstall your printer and
3.) reinstall it using this driver.

If this doesn't solve your printer's output problem, it would seem that a non-consumable component of your printer is malfunctioning and a swap under warranty or purchase of a new printer must be considered.

Hope you find these worthy guidelines to solving your printers' printing problems and thanks for using the FixYa service
Kind regards

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