On 05/04/2010, at 4:33 PM, peta belczowski wrote:
> > Hullo all > > I have had my Epson Stylus Photo R310 Printer for several years (probably a > few several years!) This printer was used mainly just for printing photos > from my other PC (Microsoft stuff). When I bought my first Apple Mac we > plugged the Epson into the Apple and this is the only printer I use with the > Mac. > > This has worked fine for about 2 years, but now there is a deterioration in > the quality of my photos; i.e. I ca now see horizontal lines across each > photo (faint, light). Also, I don't think the colour is as sharp as it > should be. I don't use the printer all that often, because we can take bulk > photos to Officeworks etc, so usually I just use the Epson when I have a > small number of photos which I want immediately. Plus general printing > (which seems to be okay - I think, no need to print very often). > > I cannot find anything in WAMUG archives dealing with this problem > specifically, and nor can I obtain any help from going online to Epson. > > Does anyone have any advice on how I can tell the Mac to "clean the > printhead" or similar? I do hope it is not anything manual that I have to > do. Keep the messy fingers for the computers nowadays please! > > Many thanks in advance > > Peta > > Mac OS X V.10.6.3 Hi Peta, Sounds like you need to do "Head Cleaning". In System Preferences > Print & Fax, click on your EPSON R310, then click on "Options & Supplies" > Utility. Then click on either "Clean Print Heads" or "Open Printer Utility" then "Head Cleaning". Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
