
Troubleshooting Symptom Charts /Printing - 8
Printing garbage Replace main board.
Printing too light 1 Make sure paper thickness lever is set correctly.
2 Replace ribbon.
3 Perform “Print Head Gap Adjustment” in Adjustments.
4 Perform “Platen Gap and Parallelism Adjustment” in
Adjustments.
Printing too dark 1 Make sure paper thickness lever is set correctly.
2 Perform “Print Head Gap Adjustment” in Adjustments.
3 Perform “Platen Gap and Parallelism Adjustment” in
Adjustments.
Printing less than
best quality
Make sure system file has correct fonts. For non-TrueType fonts
the system file must have the desired output font size and its 3-
times equivalent.