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Author Topic:  HP Laserjet 5L Blurry/missing text
webgang
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From: England
posted 2003-04-30 06:15:18 Reply -Delete

I bought my 5L off an online auction. It prints great for almost any document printed out of Word or WordPerfect. However, many documents printed from the web, especially graphs or pictures or tables cause problems.

Problem: lines of text or image are omitted on a page and printed in proper placement on the following page, which contains only the missing lines. So this means that if I am printing3 pages of text or images, I can get omitted lines on the first page, the omitted lines will show up on the second page; the third page will be what is supposed to be page two, etc.

Can anybody provide some advice? Much thanks.

moe
Member

From: USA
posted 2003-04-30 06:22:11 Reply -Delete

Could be a memory issue. Try changing the dpi in your printer properties to 300dpi. If that fixes the problem (you'll get degraded image quality) you'll need to add a memory expansion card.

mancubus
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From: Belgium
posted 2003-04-30 06:24:48 Reply -Delete

Add more memory? It happens when I print excel files also. Just now I printed and half the values appeared and other half were printed on second page. Does it still seem like a memory issue?

moe
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From: USA
posted 2003-04-30 06:25:36 Reply -Delete

Excel files use a lot of memory. Why don't you just try what I suggested?

webgang
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From: England
posted 2003-04-30 06:28:28 Reply -Delete

thanks a lot, moe. This appears to have fixed it, as I printed a document in 600dpi and it errored then worked fine in 300. Is there any way to make it so that 600dpi works? If not, is there a way I can set it default to 300dpi?

Again, thanks a lot.

Mark Woodman
Member

From: Taiwan
posted 2003-04-30 06:29:28 Reply -Delete

Yes, add more RAM. The printer is doing what it's doing because it doesn't have enough RAM to image the page at 600 dpi.

It's kinda silly to force the printer into 300 dpi... you didn't buy a 600 dpi printer just so that you could use half its capabilities.

moe
Member

From: USA
posted 2003-04-30 06:30:14 Reply -Delete

I did mention that webgang needed to add a memory expansion module. This exercise was just to prove that it was in fact a memory issue. I sold my last one last week, but they're still available

Mark Woodman
Member

From: Taiwan
posted 2003-04-30 06:30:52 Reply -Delete

Sorry, Moe... that comment was for him, not you. :)

webgang
Member

From: England
posted 2003-04-30 06:31:15 Reply -Delete

What does this example say about the memory issue? Today I printed a scanned image, a sheet of text. Some of the text was really fuzzy, as if the dpi were about 40; other text was sharp. It was not the scan quality, because when I printed the image on the inkjet the entire image was consistently sharp.

I was looking through the site and the issue of some type of scanning lense has been raised. Is this a possibility?

Thanks very much for the continued assistance.

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