If your printouts are blurry or smeared, try these
solutions:
- Make sure
your paper is not damp, curled, old, or loaded incorrectly in your
product.
- Use a
support sheet with special paper, or load special paper one sheet
at a time.
- Make sure
your paper meets the specifications for your product.
- Use Epson
papers to ensure proper saturation and absorption of genuine Epson
inks.
- Make sure
the paper type setting in your product software matches the type of
paper you loaded.
- Make sure
you loaded the printable side of the paper correctly for your
product.
- If you are
printing on thick paper or envelopes, turn on the Thick Paper setting from the control panel or
select Thick Paper and Envelopes
in the Extended Settings of the printer software. (Turning this
setting on will decrease print speed.)
- In Windows,
if the paper is still smeared after selecting the Thick Paper and Envelopes setting, select the
Short Grain Paper setting in the
Extended Settings of the printer software.
- Remove each
sheet from the output tray as it is printed.
- Avoid
handling printouts on glossy paper right after printing to allow
the ink to set.
- Turn off any
high speed settings in your product software.
- If you print
on both sides of a sheet of paper, smudges may appear on the
reverse side of heavily saturated or dark images. If one side of a
sheet will contain a lighter image or text, print that side first.
Adjust the Print
Density and/or Increase Ink
Drying Time settings.
- Run a nozzle
check to see if any of the print head nozzles are clogged. Then
clean the print head, if necessary.
- Align the
print head.
- Clean the
paper path.
Note: Your
product will not operate properly while tilted at an angle. Place
it on a flat, stable surface that extends beyond the base of the
product in all directions.