Pictures printing with stripes of color in some programs but not all programs.
If I am printing in normal mode, all pictures or any type of color printing comes out looking striped horizontally. The picture is viewable, but the colored stripes are alternately dark and light variations of the color.
If I set for high quality, this does not happen, but it burns up more ink.
Try new injet cartidges. If your printer has separate head and ink combo, replace the jets. The high quality mode operates the piezo jets at full power and lower setting can cause jets not to open as far. On some preinters, your particalar problem can be the result of too thin paper and the economy setting being used. Use 18lb or 20lb paper and see if it still does it on normal print mode.
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You are printing a pictures that was made in RGB mode (red green blue). You need to convert this picture to CMYK which is how printers print.
See how here: http://www.printingforless.com/rgb-cmyk.html
Have ou gone into your menus. Into troubleshooting, then image quality. You will want to run both the eliminate light stripes and eliminate smears procedures. that will purge the print head, blow air through the jets and hopefully resolve the problem. I do believe the 8550 has a Jet Substitutin procedure where you can do a workaround and make other jets make up for the light areas. here are some directions, Will forward more
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button on the Control Panel to
select [Troubleshooting] on the Display Screen, and then press the [OK]
button.
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Print Quality Problems], and then press the [OK] button.
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Troubleshooting Print Quality Page], and then press the [OK] button.
Evaluate the 'Light Stripes Test' page for missing printhead jets,
such as missing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow or Black color bars. The 'Light
Stripes Test' page is the last page of the Troubleshooting Print
Quality Page that printed.
WARNING: To avoid injury, do not touch the sharp metal strip attached to the clear rubber wiper blade in the Maintenance Kit.
Use a clean lint-free cloth or a new paper coffee filter to gently
clean the maintenance unit's clear rubber wiper blade, use only a
wiping motion across the entire length of the wiper blade, and then
empty the waste tray. A dirty maintenance kit wiper blade can cause
white lines and weak or missing printhead jets.
Repeat step 3 to reprint the Troubleshooting Print Quality Pages.
If there are no missing or partially missing color bars then the print
quality problem has been resolved. If there are missing or partially
missing color bars then the printhead cleaning procedure will need to
be performed. Continue with the next section.
To clean the printhead using the basic eliminate light stripes procedure:
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button on the Control Panel to
select [Troubleshooting] on the Display Screen, and then press the [OK]
button.
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Print Quality Problems], and then press the [OK] button.
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Eliminate Light Stripes], and then press the [OK] button.
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Basic], and then
press the [OK] button. The printer will perform a head cleaning, which
will take about five minutes. The printer will then print a cleaning
page and a light stripes test page.
Repeat steps 1 - 4 one more time. If there are no weak or missing
jets then the print quality problem has been resolved. If there are
still weak or missing jets after two basic light stripe cleanings,
continue with step 6.
NOTE: Do not try the Advanced Eliminate Light Stripes Cleaning mode without performing two basic cleanings first.
To clean the printhead using the advanced eliminate light stripes procedure:
Press the [Up] or [Down] arrow button to select [Advanced], and then press the [OK] button.
Select the missing jet color and number. If necessary, check the
light stripes test page to determine the color and jet number of the
missing jet.
NOTE: Only perform the advanced light stripe cleaning once. If weak or missing jets still persist, continue with step 8.
Print the Troubleshooting Print Quality Page. Evaluate the Light
Stripes Test page for missing printhead jets, such as missing Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow or Black color bars. If necessary, perform the basic
eliminate light stripes procedure one more time. If the Advanced
Eliminate Light Stripes procedure does not resolve the weak or missing
jets, perform the Enable Jet Substitution Mode. See the Related Items below.
What you have is a dried up color cartridge. You can try to use the <clean print heads> in the diagnostic tools section of you priner software. (usually, just try to print something & the window will appear) Sometimes you have to clean heads, then print test page like 2 or 3 times before it clears up. If that doesn't correct it, don't worry. Have your color cartridge filled (staples, office depot, & other stores do it cheap) - or - replace it with a new cartridge. You may have to run the clean print heads program after installing a new cartridge, but this will definitely fix your problem.
Try running the cleaning cycle on the printer, either through the printer software or via the controls on the printer itself. Sometimes print heads dry out and cause stripes.
make sure your printer printed an initialisation or alignment sheet once you installed the new cartridge. you can try a partial reset of the printer and check if the printer prints fine,also there is an option of cartridge calibration in the printer properties or the printer software installed in your computer
When you go into the eliminate light stripes there is also a mode called Jet Substitution. You can sometimes bypass the bad jets.
If that does not work then the print head will most likely need to be replaced.
You can replace the printer for less than the cost of a print head normally..
Cartridges may give a very slow printing if internally damaged, or : When using colored paper in the all-in-one, printing or copying is slow.This issue is a result of the automatic paper type sensor misreading
the colored paper as photo paper. The print out takes longer because
the unit is printing in Best mode instead of Normal mode.
Click
Start
, point to
Settings
, and then click
Control Panel
.
Double-click
Printers and Faxes
.
Right-click the appropriate all-in-one, and then click
Printing Preferences
.
Click the
Paper/Quality
tab and under
Type is:
select
Plain Paper
.
This sets the default paper type setting to Plain Paper.
Sounds logical. I will try that and see if it works. Thanks!
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