Category 04 of 10
Print Quality
Blank pages, streaks, faded text, wrong colors, smudges and cut-off margins. Choose the guide that best matches what you see.
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#31
Printer Printing Blank Pages
Pages coming out completely blank? Find out whether ink, toner, the printhead, the driver or the document is to blame, with fixes for inkjet and laser printers.
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#32
Streaks or Lines on Printed Pages
Gaps, streaks or dark lines on your printouts? Read the line pattern, then fix clogged nozzles, ink on rollers, laser drum marks or dirty scanner glass.
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#33
Prints Are Faded or Too Light
Faded or washed-out prints? Check quality and toner save settings, paper type and supply levels, then fix weak nozzles or low density on inkjet and laser.
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#34
Colors Print Wrong or Look Off
Colors printing wrong, dull or with a tint? Fix grayscale settings, missing inks, color management conflicts and color laser calibration step by step.
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#35
Ink Smudges or Smears on the Page
Wet smears, ink marks or rubbed-off toner on printouts? Fix paper type, drying time, dirty rollers and head strikes on inkjets, plus poor fusing on lasers.
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#36
Prints Look Blurry or Fuzzy
Text and photos printing blurry, doubled or fuzzy? Fix low-resolution images, quality settings, printhead alignment and paper choice on inkjet and laser.
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#37
Horizontal Banding in Photo Prints
Light or dark horizontal bands across photo prints? Fix paper type, quality mode, clogged nozzles and feed calibration on inkjets, plus color laser causes.
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#38
Text Prints Misaligned or Jagged
Vertical lines broken, letters jagged or colored edges around black text? Run alignment and color registration, then adjust resolution and font settings.
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#39
Printout Is Cut Off at the Edges
Text or images missing at the edges of your printouts? Fix paper size, scaling, margins, borderless and browser print settings so the full page prints.
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#40
Printer Prints Garbled Text or Random Symbols
Pages full of strange symbols, code or gibberish? Clear the print queue, match the driver to your printer's language and check cables and spooling settings.