Find the settings that govern your printer by going through Start or Start, Settings and then choosing Printers or Printers and Faxes. Right-click the icon of the printer you want to tweak and choose Properties. In Win 9x/ME, choose the Details tab and then the Spool Settings button; in 2K/XP, choose the Advanced tab. Why do you care? Because every print job you create goes to a “spool file” on your hard disk before it goes to the printer, and by necessity a spool job is rife with compromises between speed of printing and speed of freeing your application for further use. Depending on your personal needs, you may want to tweak the settings. For a minimum amount of time your app is caught in the print job, choose “Spool print jobs so program finishes printing faster.” Then choose “Start Continue Reading »
Speed Up The PC - Printer Tips

Verify that you are using the correct printer driver for your printer model. Make sure that the printer’s paper adjust lever is set to 0 for regular paper and + for envelopes or thicker media. If MicroWeave is off, turn this feature on. If High Speed is on, turn it off. Make sure the Media Type setting matches the paper or media loaded. Also, the Halftoning and Color Adjustment Mode options may be set incorrectly for your document type.

Let the printer driver automatically select the settings for the best quality. The paper you are using may be damaged, old, dirty or loaded incorrectly. Remove the paper and reload a new stack ensuring that the printable side is face up. If your output is faint, check the Continue Reading »
The quality of printed output is unacceptable

Epson created a ‘chip’ for their 777, 870 and 1270 cartridges that, in effect, stops the cartridge from printing when the ink level has fallen to around 15% (meaning there’s still ink in it).   Think about that a minute.   The only good reason I can think of to stop using the cartridge, while there’s still a little ink in it, would be to avoid having it dry out while it’s being shipped off for refilling.   If you’re doing your own refilling, you’d refill it right away so you wouldn’t have to worry about having it dry out, wouldn’t you?   Makes it look like Epson is, or was, planning to set up a mail in cartridge refilling program doesn’t it?   Of course that’s just idle speculation on my part and, whether or not it’s true, you can “fool” Continue Reading »
Resetting The Epson ‘Chip Cartridges’

One of the most common causes of printer cartridge failure is printhead burnout.   When the   command is given for an inkjet nozzle to “print” many things happen; ink has been brought to the “firing chamber” by a combination of gravity, capillary action, and vacuum caused by the last firing. The circuitry applies current to the heating resistor which rapidly heats the ink in the chamber, causing it to expand. This quick expansion forces ink to shoot through the printhead nozzle onto the paper.   There are over 200 of these microscopic expansion chambers on the end of a typical printer cartridge.   The ink which flows through them also serves to cool them off. The resistor which heats the ink achieves very high temperatures and without the cooling action of the ink, the printhead very rapidly begins to deteriorate. Printing even part of a page with no ink in the cartridge can permanently damage the printhead. Most printers will warn you of a low cartridge before Continue Reading »
Prevent Printhead Burnout HP and Lexmark cartridge types

All Printers Require Good Preventive Maintenance.
The number one complaint about poor print quality, specifically streaking print, white lines through the print, or no print at all, can be avoided by frequent use of your printer.   These print problems are caused by ink drying up in the print head or nozzles, clogging them and preventing ink from reaching the paper. If you don’t use your printer regularly you can help keep it in working order by printing a test page or running a printhead cleaning cycle once a week.   Consult your printer’s manual for additional, or more specific preventative maintanence tips. Continue Reading »
Maintenance Tips

The number one refilling problem is waiting too long to refill your cartridge. If you run out of ink, leave your cartridge in the printer. Don’t let your cartridge dry out.   Inside just about all inkjet cartridges with a built-in print head (HP,Lexmark), there is a foam sponge. When the cartridge runs out of ink, the sponge may dry up and go hard,especially when the cartridge is removed from the printer. Once the sponge has hardened the cartridge is “done for”. Even if you refill the cartridge before the sponge becomes useless, dried ink can clog the microscopic holes (jets) in the print head.   It’s always better to refill the cartridge before it runs dry. Topping off the cartridge every 200-300 sheets ensures that the cartridge always has ink in it to stop the sponge from drying out, and preventing you from running out of ink in the middle of a job.   The printhead of an ink jet cartridge can Continue Reading »
Don’t Let the Cartridge Dry Out

The CP740 can print from a memory card, PictBridge camera, or computer. To set it up for the first two choices, you simply slide in the ribbon, load paper in the tray, snap the tray into the printer, and plug in the power cord. To print from a computer, you also need to run the fully automated setup program from the distribution disc and connect to the computer by USB cable.

The built-in menus for printing from a memory card include a red-eye reduction feature as the only editing command. (The nearly identical CP750, which is not available in the Continue Reading »
Canon Selphy CP740

Epson’s PictureMate small-format photo printers have always stood out from the crowd, but the company has really outdone itself with its latest iteration, the PictureMate Dash ($99.99 direct). Although the Dash is the low-cost version of the newest generation of PictureMates, it offers features I’m used to seeing only on printers that cost far more—from a surprisingly big 3.6-inch LCD screen to the ability to print from a wide range of sources. It’s also the fastest small-format photo printer I’ve seen at any price.

Like previous generation PictureMates, the Dash looks like a large lunchbox—literally, a box with a handle on it. To transform it into a printer, you set it on a flat surface and Continue Reading »
Epson PictureMate

The A626 directly replaces the A616 and effectively replaces the Editors’ Choice HP Photosmart A716 as the new top of the compact photo printer line for HP, but with little change in the core features. Specifically, it offers output quality similar to that of both of those printers, at somewhat faster speed, along with the same ability to print standard-format photos at up to 5 by 7 inches (something few small-format, dedicated photo printers offer), as well as panoramas up to 4 by 12 inches.

The A626 eliminates some of the A716’s features, notably an internal hard drive to let you store photos in the printer and a video-output port to let you view them on a TV. HP says Continue Reading »
HP Photosmart A626 Compact Photo Printer

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To reset Epson Stylus Pro 5000:

1. Open Main Windows SSC Service Utility
2. Click Configuration Tab
3. Choose Installed Printer in this case Epson Stylus Pro 5000. you will not find this driver if don’t install driver yet.
4. Chose Printer Model Epson Stylus Pro 5000
5. Click Ink Monitor Tab. You can see type of printer catridge
6. Close Main Windows SSC Service Utility, SSC Utility will appear in tray icon (printer icon with right top corner color) Continue Reading »
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