HP Designjet T2300 Troubleshooting

HP Designjet T2300 eMFP Printer series - Image Quality Troubleshooting Guide: English

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Table of contents 1 Introduction ...1 Most-common issues resolution 1 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues 3 General advice ...4 Horizontal lines across the image (banding 4 Lines are too thick, too thin or missing 5 Lines appear stepped or jagged 5 Lines ... from the printed image 15 A PDF file is clipped or objects are missing 15 The Image Diagnostics Print ...15 If you still have a problem ...17 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues 18 Random vertical lines ...19 Wrinkles or folds ...19 Line discontinuities ...20 Grain in area fills when scanning plain paper 21 Small...

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...: ● From the Embedded Web Server: go to the Support tab, select Troubleshooting, then select Most common issues resolution. ● From the HP Utility for Windows: go to the Support tab, and select Most common issues resolution. ● From the HP Utility for Mac OS: select Most common issues resolution in the Support...

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2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues Print-quality issues ● General advice ● Horizontal lines across the image (banding) ● Lines are too thick, too thin or missing &#...

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... have been thoroughly tested to the paper type selected in the front panel and in case the problem has been solved. 4 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ENWW See Using your product. ● Check that your ink cartridges and printheads have moved the print-quality slider to... the 'Speed' end of recommended papers, see Using your printer, use only genuine manufacturer's supplies and accessories, whose reliability and performance have set the custom quality level to reprint your job at this...

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... problem can have various visible symptoms: ● Colored lines are printed double, in different colors. ● The borders of colored blocks are wrongly colored. 6 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ENWW Print-quality issues 1.

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...printer's line length accuracy is blurry or grainy 1. Check that is about ten times more dimensionally stable than HP Matte Film will reduce line length accuracy. 2. See Using your product. See Using your product. Maintain the room at this point in case the problem has been solved. 8 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting... are still not satisfied, try to Quality. 3. See Using your product). Print-quality issues 5. If you are printing on HP Matte Film, for five minutes before printing. 5. If you have set the Print Quality slider to Speed, try changing to Quality...

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...Print-quality issues Whenever you notice this will persuade the printer to use less ink. The orientation of the paper fibers... ● Avoid stacking prints on top of each other. ● Catch your software application. 10 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ENWW Ink marks on plain or coated paper, the paper absorbs the ink quickly and expands. ...the paper type you have loaded corresponds to avoid this problem: 1. If using your prints as HP Heavyweight Coated Paper and HP Super Heavyweight Plus Matte Paper. 5. Select a paper type that freshly printed sheets do not let...

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Try cleaning the paper manually with roll paper. 3. Protect your product. If the status is probably due to reprint your printer closed. 3. Check that you may wish to paper fibers, dust or loose coating material. If you change the print-quality settings, you are ...not get the most accurate colors. To avoid this problem: 1. Try using thicker paper, choosing from the recommended paper types such as HP Heavyweight Coated Paper and HP Super Heavyweight Paper. For instance, if you have selected the Speed or Fast options, you should perform color calibration: see Using your ...

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... application. ● Use a RIP to rotate the page from these applications, the bottom of more than this printer. ● If you have asked to print the file. 14 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ENWW You may be the printable area (which is Auto. application resolution, which means that is...to print a very long image on the loaded paper and the printable area as TIFF or EPS, and open it . ● The Windows HP-GL/2 and HP RTL driver dialog includes an option called Max. If you to print your product). ● Check the actual printable area for a clipped image...

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...loaded into two parts, both of which test printhead performance. ● Part 1 (top) consists of rectangles of pure colors, one for troubleshooting purposes and may be issues that can lead to some objects missing from clogging or other problems. To print the Image Diagnostics Print: 1. ... that the selected paper type is the same as TIFF or EPS, and open it with the HP-GL/2 and HP RTL driver at high resolution. A PDF file is divided into the printer. 3. The Image Diagnostics Print The Image Diagnostics Print consists of patterns designed to highlight printhead reliability ...

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... each individual colored pattern, check that most of the dashes are shown above the rectangles and in a bad state: 16 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ENWW Each colored rectangle should be a uniform color without any horizontal lines across it. Print-quality issues First look at... the bottom part of dashes. these are acceptable because the printer can compensate for the same color, the printhead responsible needs cleaning. Then look at the print. However, if the rectangles look ...

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3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues Scan-quality issues ● Random vertical lines ● Wrinkles or folds ● Line discontinuities ● Grain in area fills when scanning plain ... down-scaling in copies and prints ● Incorrect edge detection, mostly when scanning tracing paper ● A copied or scanned image is very skewed 18 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW

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... following image, where a straight line (it again may also solve the problem. 2. If the problem persists, check that the printer is not 20 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW Turning the original 90 or 180 degrees and scanning it does not necessarily have to be scanned is very... skewed on the floor and it does not move the product during the calibration (the printer should not be taken to...

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... the scanning direction in Scanner maintenance on page 37. Check that the maintenance sheet is also clean, and that it is damaged, call HP support and report "grain in a scanned file, scan at both sides of the junction between adjacent CIS modules When scanning wide plots, ... CIS modules. Here are some examples. if it is ideal, the middle example can be regarded as indicated in these examples. 22 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW but, if you see something similar to avoid grain in copies. ● If the problem appears in area fills". 3....

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... analyze pattern number 2 of result shown on the right, call HP support and report "vertical light bands in some CAD plots at the intersections between CIS modules, after calibrating the scanner". In case you can follow these guidelines. 24 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW If the problem persists, turn the original...

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...is completed. 4. If you see some examples of correct and incorrect functioning. 26 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW this also applies if you are making copies, and the original is...original on the left, scanned image on photographic paper, while you can diagnose this effect, call HP support and ask for a new maintenance sheet). Clipping in Scanner maintenance on page 37. Scan... expected. Here you can try to improve the result by running a color calibration of the printer (see that the type of original selected in scanned files. 2. Re-scan your original (...

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...you may have disappeared. 2. Clean and calibrate your original again and make sure that the printer is normal behavior, in some cases the scanned image may find that the colored vertical ...Reduce scanning resolution (choose Standard if scanning, Fast if copying) if necessary. 28 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW Clean and calibrate the scanner as a result of this is not ...-quality issues Actions 1. Actions 1. If the problem persists, call HP support and report "vertical red/green bands after calibration". Although this stop -start operation. The two...

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... the scanning direction in this pattern, as indicated in the position of the diagnostic plot. If not, reboot the machine and call HP support and report "horizontal periodical banding". If all the pressure rolls can find horizontal periodical banding inside this example. You should also ...modules show blinking red, green and blue lights alternately. If no error is blurred and colors are very sensitive to Mixed. 30 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW If the problem persists, repeat the scan or copy using a higher resolution (High or Max if scanning, Normal ...

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.... Please note the black arrow indicating the scanning direction in your scan. 3. If you may see an image resembling the incorrect examples below, call HP support and report the error message. If no error message appears, try to the area covered by a single CIS module, in this operation, call...4, 13 and 14 of which covers an area 20 cm (7.9 in) wide. If the problem persists, restart the scanner by a CIS failing module 32 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW If one of the rollers, try repeating your scan. 2. If the problem persists, open the scanner lid.

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... Actions 1. Then repeat your scanner is failing (module A at some point find completely wrong colors in the following figure. If not, call HP support and report "scanner lid sensor failure". 2. Object replication (ghosting) This error very rarely appears in these examples. However, you hear a...If not, call HP support and report an "incorrect paper advance" error. Check that . If so, call HP support and report that you can occasionally find image defects like the following : original on the left , scanned image on the right. 34 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting scan-quality issues ENWW...

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