What If Your Xerox Printer Smears Ink On A Printed Paper

Has your Xerox printer smeared ink on the printed pages? Well, it clearly defines that you haven’t clean your printer for a very long time. Cleaning the printer depends on how frequently you use your printer and in which environment you placed your printer. If your Xerox printer is leaving a stain of ink on both sides of the paper, clean the path of paper printing.

Steps to print:

  • If the characters have narrow stripes or missing colors run the automatic cleaning in the printhead.
  • When your printer show a messages says “ready to print” swipe to the menu and tap Select.
  • Navigate to Troubleshooting and hit Select button.
  • Then go to Eliminate Light Strips and hit Select button.
  • Now to cleaning process will take little time and after that test a page to check for a strip or missing colors on the characters.

If still the colors are missing or are light, repeat the process and this time it will take longer time than previous steps.

  • Now take an exit from all the running programs in your printer and turn off your printer for about four hours to let the excess ink dry.
  • Turn on the printer and perform auto-cleaning.

If this also hasn’t resolved the problem, follow the below steps:

  • Open the print head and take out the maintenance drawer.
  • Use a lint-free wipe to remove the excess remains from the clean plastic balder.
  • Put back the maintenance drawer into the printer.
  • Or you can clean the printhead manually; remove the ink cartridge and clean the excess ink.

If none of the above steps help you to resolve the problem, dial a toll-free Xerox Printer Helpline Number +61-283173523 and avail the services through online or offline mode. In addition, you can visit our site and go through the blogs.

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