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.
- Slide the edge guides to the edges of the paper.
- 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.)
- If you are printing on thick paper, select a thick paper
Paper Type setting on the control
panel.
- 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.
Make sure the ink has dried before reloading the paper to
print on the other side. Adjust the density and/or ink
drying time settings.
- If printed
copies are smeared, lower the copy density setting on the product
control panel.
- 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.
- Adjust the print quality in the product software.
- Clean the
paper path.
- Do not press too hard on the original or the document cover
when you are scanning originals on the scanner glass.
- Clean the scanner glass.
- Clean the ADF.
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.