Thursday, November 24, 2016

Basic Steps To Take Before Calling Printer Repair Services

By Linda Hughes


One of the most useful things that one can have in his home would probably be printers. They are very beneficial in terms of business work, school work, or maybe even just in the hobby of producing arts and crafts or anything of the sort. This is why investing in a good quality one is a must.

As with other things, printers can break too, but throwing them out the door would basically leave you with nothing. You can always spend money on printer repair Jersey City to fix the little baby but sometimes, all it needs is just a little patience. Listed below are some of the most common printer problems and how you can troubleshoot them before sending them off to the techies.

Sometimes, these things act up by moving too slow when it is printing something. A step you can take that can rev up its performance and save you some ink is going to its properties and reducing its print quality. Also, you can try to add RAM to the device as this can speed up its performance.

Also, make sure that your printer is connected to a high speed port in order for it to receive jobs faster. You might also want to try reducing the amount of things that you are fitting on one page or paper especially if it is not necessary as this can actually cause the thing to slow down. When printing information from the web, it may also be best to not include images unless, again of course, necessary.

Aside from slowing down, there are also times where one might think that the thing is totally broken because nothing comes out of it after hitting the print button. First thing you can do is check if it is turned on, and if so, try checking if it is plugged into the CPU correctly. Do necessary adjustments and try again.

However, when it still does not work, one can try checking if the printer name and the device you are using is set as default to which your computer sends the jobs to is the same. If not, change the default and check. There are times that the PC, for some unknown reason, selects a different equipment so look out for that.

Bad quality. Results that look cloudy or have lines and spots on them are very common especially for inkjets which are not used often so the ink dries out. One may want to check the properties of the device to see if it is on high quality. If not, change it and try printing again.

If the problems still occurs, look for the built in utility tool or program as this can clean out dried ink. After its done, check to see if the problem has been fixed by printing a test page. If the results are the same, you may want to check and see if you still have ink on the cartridge.

Things like these are very common but some people still kind of panic when it happens. Before spending money, check to see if you are able to aid these troubles yourself by following some simple steps. If the problem still persists, call the actual techs.




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