Thursday, March 27, 2008

Trouble-Shooting Your Printer

Have you ever experienced the frustrations of using your printers when you are in a rush. Murhphy's Law always happened to catch us unexpected. Here you are trying to rush out your business proposals, and the printed images have turned out patchy and blurred. In fact, just last week, i thought my 3-in-1 Canon Pixma MP110 has given up on me - each time i pressed "print", the paper will be jammed inside the printer.

I almost sold this printer to old goods collector, until "Always Lovely" came over to help me troubleshoot the printer. It reminded me to NOT kick the printer as yet. What we need to do is to check the print cartridges to see if they might be dirty and need a spot of housekeeping.Cartridge nozzles tend to get dirty after a few months of use. When that happens, printing quality suffers.

To clean the ink cartridges, click the Maintenance or Services tab on your printr driver. Select the Clean cartridge option. The printer will automatically clean the nozzles of the cartridge. If the blurry images persist, you may be out of oink. Just replace the cartridge.

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