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Printing: Printer Problems Resolved in Minutes

The printer is a great invention that has made it possible to extend the usefulness of your computer for real world tasks such as creating letters, documents, or complete manuscripts. The modern printer can also print graphics, digital images, transparencies, or even produce transfer designs to iron on to your t-shirts! However, when problems arise with your printer that you don’t know how to fix, you may feel like throwing your trusty peripheral out of the nearest window. To help you quickly resolve these issues, this article focuses on fixes you can do yourself in just a few minutes. Following the material in this guide, you’ll discover how to fix output problems that can give rise to issues such as missing colours and jagged vertical lines. This article also shows you what to do when faced with various driver errors that can stop your printer communicating with Windows.

Category: Hardware
Issue: 2011 Issue 6 August/September
Operating Systems: XP, Vista, 7
Article Reference: P29