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Selecting Basic Print Settings - Mac
Selecting Printing Preferences - Mac
Selecting Extended Settings - Windows
Aligning the Print Head Using the Product Control Panel
Selecting Double-sided Printing Settings - Windows
Selecting Double-sided Printing Settings - Mac
Faint Printout or Printout Has Gaps
If your printouts are faint or have gaps, try these solutions:
• Run a nozzle check to see if any of the print head nozzles are clogged. Then clean the print head, if
necessary.
• The ink levels may be low. Visually check the ink levels.
• Make sure the paper type setting matches the type of paper you loaded.
• Make sure your paper is not damp, curled, old, or loaded incorrectly in your product.
• Align the print head.
• Adjust the print quality in the product software.
• Clean the paper path.
• If you have not used the product for a long time, run the Power Cleaning utility.
Note:
Power Cleaning consumes a lot of ink, so run this utility only if you cannot improve print quality
by cleaning the print head.
• If you printed when the ink levels were too low to be seen in the ink tank windows, refill the ink tanks to
the upper lines and then run the Power Cleaning utility to replace the ink inside the ink tubes. After
running the utility, run a nozzle check to see if print quality has improved.
• If you cannot solve the problem using head cleaning, you can print immediately from a Windows
computer with a mixture of color inks to create composite black. Select the
Use a Mixture of Color
Inks to Create Black
setting from
Extended Settings
on the printer driver's Maintenance tab. You
can print at
Standard
print quality when the
Paper Type
is
Plain Paper / Bright White Paper
,
Letterhead
, or
Envelope
.
Parent topic:
Solving Print Quality Problems
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Summary of Contents for ET-3850
Page 1: ...ET 3850 User s Guide ...
Page 2: ......
Page 12: ......
Page 17: ...17 Product Parts Inside 1 Document cover 2 Scanner glass 3 Control panel ...
Page 55: ...55 2 Pull out the paper cassette until it stops 3 Slide the edge guides outward ...
Page 137: ...137 You see an Epson Scan 2 window like this ...
Page 151: ...151 You see a screen like this 2 Click the Save Settings tab ...
Page 156: ...156 You see this window ...
Page 185: ...185 You see a window like this 5 Click Print ...