Posted by Gavina Franklin on 2/6/10 2:04pm
Msg #321670

I have a HP 4350 and is printing blurry.

Has anyone experienced this issue?

Reply by JamesLee/VA on 2/6/10 7:10pm
Msg #321708

I have 2 of these where one was blurry. I bought a maintenance kit and it seemed to fix the problem. They are simple as long as you follow the instructions. Its probably is the fuser not heating up enough to completely fuse the toner to the paper thus causing it to smear as it passes through the rollers. Do you notice excess toner on the interior?

Or it could be a bad cartridge. Thats the cheapest route to look into first. I know people like getting these off brand toner cartridges, but I find the best ones are the ones from HP. I buy them off Ebay for $150. I always get at least 20,000 on the 42X. Make sure it says Genuine NIB (New In Box) with an un pulled green tab. I have found if the tab is pulled and is shipped that way, the cartridge will be blurry for about 200 pages.

I hope this helps.

Reply by MT/IL on 2/6/10 8:29pm
Msg #321719

It it a Laser or Officejet? If you have a menu button on the printer, click on maintenance and align your printheads. It sounds like the printheads aren't aligned. My all-in one machine does that periodically. If it's a Laser, you may be dealing with something more serious and need to take it in. Good luck!

Reply by PAW on 2/7/10 6:52am
Msg #321755

Is the document itself scanned as 'images' in which case the image may be blurry and not the printing of the document.

Raise the print density (DPI setting) to 1200 or high and print a few of the 'fuzzy' pages. If they're still fuzzy, it's probably the pdf file scanned as images. While viewing the first page of the file in your pdf reader application, do a search for the borrowers name or a common word like "mortgage" or "loan". If the search fails, the document is more than likely an image scan of the documents. In which case there's not a whole lot you can do about the sharpness of the characters without pre-processing the images.