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Curled or wavy
Check the paper type and quality. High temperatures and high
humidity will cause paper to curl.
See Acceptable paper and other print media uu page 20.
See Product Safety Guide: Choosing a location.
If you do not use the machine often, the paper may have been in the
paper tray too long. Turn over the stack of paper in the paper tray.
Also, fan the paper stack and then rotate the paper 180° in the paper
tray.
Open the back cover (face-up output tray) to let the printed paper exit
onto the face-up output tray.
Choose Reduce Paper Curl mode in the printer driver when you do
not use our recommended paper.
See Software User's Guide: Printing (for Windows
®
).
See Software User's Guide: Printing and Faxing (for Macintosh).
Wrinkles or creases
Make sure that paper is loaded correctly.
See Loading paper and print media uu page 10.
Check the paper type and quality.
See Acceptable paper and other print media uu page 20.
Turn over the stack of paper in the tray or rotate the paper 180° in
the input tray.
Envelope Creases
Make sure that envelopes are printed with the back cover (face-up
output tray) opened.
See Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes from the MP tray
uu page 14.
Check the envelope type and quality.
See Acceptable paper and other print media uu page 20.
Make sure envelopes are fed only from the MP tray.
See Loading paper in the multi-purpose tray (MP tray) uu page 12.
Poor fixing
Choose Improve Toner Fixing mode in the printer driver.
See Software User's Guide: Printing (for Windows
®
).
See Software User's Guide: Printing and Faxing (for Macintosh).
If this selection does not provide enough improvement, change the
printer driver setting in Media Type to a thick setting.
Examples of poor print
quality
Recommendation
B DEFGH
abc efghijk
ACD
bcde
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ABCDEFG
EFGHIJKLMN
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. 0123456789. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. 0123456789. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. 0123456789. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. 0123456789. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.