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Care and Maintenance
Troubleshooting
Trouble Possible Cause Corrective Action
A single color is not
uniform or many vertical
streaks (both light and
dark) of slightly differ-
ent density and non-
uniform color.
The toner is almost depleted. Replace the color toner
developer.
Half tone area has areas
of weak color.
Paper doesn’t match the
environmental conditions, or
it has too much moisture.
Try fresh paper, or another
type of paper.
Store media in the original,
dust-free package in the
same environmental condi-
tions as the printer.
A single color appears
faded.
The color density is set
incorrectly in the printer
panel.
Check the density setting by
printing the Color Calibra-
tion Page in the Color
Calibration menu from the
printer panel. Compare the
settings with the color density
samples on the Color Calibra-
tion Reference and, if neces-
sary, adjust the density from
the printer panel. Refer to
Setting the Color Density on
page 31.
The toner is almost depleted. Replace the color toner
developer soon (depending on
the complexity of your prints,
you can continue to print up
to 100 more pages).
