Initial Troubleshooting Steps Printer

During use the printer, do you ever see the following problems?

• The printer can not print
• The printer seems to print, but there is nothing written on paper
• This page prints are incomplete or strange characters printed
• indicator light flashes only hold when given the command to print
• Paper can not get into the printer properly
• Paper can not get out of the printer
• The printed stripes
• Some of the features promised by printer manufacturers can not work
• The printer to be slow in printing
• Fonts are printed are not the same as that appearing on screen

If you ever meet the above problems, perhaps the following tips to your use before you decide to bring your printer torepair shop.

 
1. The printer can not print
There are several possibilities that may cause the printer will not print. You can began to examine the following:
1. Check the printer connection with electrical networks. 

   Make sure the printer power cable plugged into the 

   connector (socket) with a perfect power.
2. Make sure the switch is "on-off" switch the printer or 

   the printer button in the "on". 

   Issues caused by the lack of power to the printer is usually

   characterized by not his lit LED (indicator light)

   from the printer, for printers using LED for power 

   indicator.
3. Check the printer data cable connection, whether it is 

   connected with parallel port / port USB on the computer.
4. Try to use other printer data cable (borrowed friends) 

   as experiment. 

   There have been cases caused by the rupture of one of 

   copper data cable in the middle of the cable so that data

   from the computer can not get to printer.
5. If you use the operating system Microsoft ® Windows ®,

   and you use printer connected to the parallel port on your 

   computer, try running the command below in bold in

   MSDOS ® Promptwindow:

6. C: \> dir>> LPT1
7. The purpose of these commands is to distort the appearance

   of the command "dir" (command to penampilkan table of

   contents of a directory) than it should be to monitor

   but transferred to the computer parallel port.
8. Make sure you install the drivers for the printer.
9. Make sure you have selected the correct driver for your 

   printer.
10.Make sure you have selected the appropriate port for your  

   printer. See this option via the menu poperties printer.
11.Try using a standard text editor application for your  

   operating system to print something (eg notepad). 

   If the application you can print a text editor, then most 

   likely the fault is not on your printer.
12.Try to change your printer settings to "Default Printer"or  

   try to to reinstall the drivers for your printer with other 

   printer name and change the new installation as "Default  

   Printer".
13.Make sure you have sufficient disk space. Sometimes if the  

   buffer is not enough then the data can not be sent to the  

   printer perfectly.
14.Try to change the setting "spooler" to your printer through 

   the Properties menu printer. Features "spooler" is used 

   in order so you will be able to run application when done  

   printing the document.
15.Check whether there are resources that conflict with the  

   port used by your printer.
   Use the help of "hardware troubleshooter" in the event 

   of conflict.

This case may also be caused by your computer port is problematic.

For find out, if the above steps you have done but did not find 

the "point light ", try to move your printer port connection to  

another port (eg USB1 to USB3) or try your printer on another computer.

2. The printer seems to print, but there is nothing written on paper
This case is generally caused by the empty printer ink or toner or the carbon end
your printer is on tape. Try to replace the ink, toner or ribbon with a new printer.
Do not forget to check if there is something blocking the head with a paper (eg
plastic seal on a new printer). There are cases on the printer that uses ink, where ink
still in the printer head has been dry since the old printers are not used so that there
closed-head by the ink. to a printer that can be easily removed headnya, this problem sometimes
can be solved by following simple way:
1. Remove the head and cartridge from the printer.
2. Separate ink cartridge from the head.
3. Make sure you do not hold hold an electronic circuit located 

   around the printer head off because you have to destroy it.
4. Take hot water, pour in a bowl.
5. Dip the tip head into the existing hot water in the bowl.  

   Notice not until the water touches the electronic circuits  

   that are around head because it can wrecked!
6. Shake head until the ink is in the head to melt.
7. Repeat step dyeing (4 to 6) above with a new hot water until  

   hot water The new fixed nodes (not contaminated with ink that 

   comes out of the head).
8. Dry the head with a soft cloth until completely dry.
9. Reunite with the ink cartridge head. It is recommended to use 

   a cartridge still new.
10.Replace the head and the cartridge into the printer and try  

   printing.

If you have do do head cleaning steps as above but the results  

remain Similarly, the possibility of blockage occur until the 

ink supply pipe. When this happens, try steaming ink channel head

with steam heat to about ink that is in pipes thaw, and then repeat step cleaning head as above.

3. Printed page is not complete or strange characters printed
This case could be caused by several things. Try to follow these instructions:
1. Check the printer connection to a computer, whether the  

   relationship was perfect.
2. Check the data cable you use. Try replacing it with another  

   data cable (do not jump to buy, borrow friends used the data  

   cable to make sure this damage for you do not lose).
3. Check also that you use drivers for the printer, whether it

   is appropriate or not. When necessary, update or reinstall  

   drivers with the latest version is officially released

   by the printer manufacturers.
4. Check if your documents or data assembly. Error reading data

   caused by damage to the print data can lead to incomplete or

   characters printed incomplete.
5. Make sure the settings page on the application you use is 

   correct.
6. Make sure you still have a hard drive and memory capacity  

   sufficient to write data buffer.
7. Check if your printer needs a maintenance procedure at a given 

   time.

   For a specific printer type, maybe you need to reset the  

   printer settings you after a certain usage period.

4. The indicator light flashes only hold when given the command to print
There are several possibilities that could be causing this such as:
1. Printer cartridge is not installed or not installed properly.
2. Cartridge installation position is not correct.
3. Mounted on the printer cartridge is not suitable for the 

   printer.
4. There is no paper in the printer.
5. After the paper has not pressed the button that is loaded into 

   the paper / resume.
6. There is a paper blockage (stuck) in the printer.
7. Check whether the "door" was closed with the perfect printer.

   If the possibility of the above none of these work to resolve

   your problem, try to turn off the printer for a while and then 

   brought him back.

5. Paper can not get into the printer properlyPlease try the following instructions to resolve this issue:1. Try to reload the paper into the printer.2. When there, set the paper size selection switch according

   to size.3. Check the possibility of too much le mbaran paper contained.4. Check if the paper is in good condition, not shrunk or warped.5. Check whether the paper size is the same for each page.6. Check to see if there is another paper which backs up in

   the printer.7. Check whether the "door" is closed with the perfect printer.6. Paper can not get out of the printer

To remove the paper blockage (stuck) in the printer, follow these steps:1. Turn off the printer power.2. Disconnect the printer power cable from the connector (socket) of electricity.3. Remove the paper from the tray (if any).4. Open the printer door.5. If possible, remove the printer door by pulling the handle on 

   both sides then lift upward.6. Open the paper separator (if any).7. Hold the paper which was blocked on both sides and pull out 

   slowly.8. After the paper they put out, close the paper separator return 

   (if any).9. Replace the printer door.10.Close the printer door.11.Insert the paper into the tray and try printing again.

7. Streaky printoutsTo printer ink, there is the possibility of dirty printer head. Clean the printer head usingway of handling the case 2 above. If not solve the problem, try changing the ink cartridgewith a new one and leave overnight, then try again to print. Fortype of dot-matrix printer, this case is probably caused by a head drive componentsproblematic. There have been cases like this in dot-matrix printer caused bydeath of one of the driving transistor head. This case had also caused by damage todata cable that sends information to the printer head. If this case happens, like it or notyou must bring your dot-matrix printer to a service person to replace componentsthere, unless you know about electronics.

8. Some of the features promised by printer manufacturers can not workMake sure you use the printer driver issued officially by the manufacturer makerprinter to your printer. Ensure that all drivers are designed for your operating systemuse. Try to use the latest version of drivers issued. Ensure that allyou have fulfilled the requirements put forward by the printer manufacturer to use a featureparticular.

9. Printer to be slow in printingThis case is mostly due to his full memory, both computer memory and memorythat is in the printer. Try to follow the steps below to resolve this issue:1. When you use the operating system Microsoft ® Windows ® 

   XP/2000/NT, make sure you still have remaining hard drive

   space of at least 120 MB.2. Make sure you do not run other applications that spend his 

   memory.3. Make sure your computer is clean of the "virus" computer.

4. Double check your printer configuration.
5. Try to perform disk defragmentation.
6. If this does not solve the problem, try to compare speeds

   print from your printer on another computer. If on the other 

   computer turned out to be more fast, probably the mainboard   

   components that handle communication between computer with the 

   printer you've started to "wear out".

 
10. Fonts are printed are not the same as that appearing on screen
Do you use the "True Type Fonts"? The use of type fonts will be
produce prints similar to what is on screen. Try to replace
font you use with the font type "True Type Fonts". Check also whether the file
font you use is available on your computer.
If you use a postscript printer type, turn off the option the replacement of "True
Type Fonts "to" PostScript Fonts "via the menu" Printer Preferences ".
Make sure your printer driver is not problematic. Try to reinstall
driver using a name that b erbeda or update your drivers.