Printed Characters Are Not What You Expected; Printing Position Problems - Epson GP-C830 User Manual

Medicine bags may become dirty when printing in
an environment with high humidity if the surface
of the medicine bags is a polyvinyl resin.
The printout may become blurry depending on
the media type.
Misaligned vertical lines appear.
Cause
The gaps in the print head are misaligned.
The printing speed is slow when connecting using the parallel port.
Cause
The parallel interface is not set for high-speed
communication.

Printed characters are not what you expected

The typestyles or characters you sent with your software did not print.
Cause
The software may not be properly configured.

Printing position problems

Printing starts too high or too low on the page, or the bottom part of one page is printed at the top of the next
page.
Cause
The top margin or top-of-form position settings
are incorrect.
Printing starts too far to the right or left on the page.
GP-C830/GP-M830/GP-C831/GP-M831/GP-C832/GP-M832
Print in an environment with humidity of 65% or less.
Adjust the print density for the media type to prevent the printout
from becoming blurry. For more information, see "Printer settings"
on page 30.
What to do
Run the Print Head Alignment utility. For more information, see
"Aligning the Print Head" on page 101.
What to do
Use BI Parallel Port Driver, which is installed with the printer driver,
to communicate at high speed. For more information, see "BI
Parallel Port Driver" on page 38.
What to do
Check that the software is correctly configured for your printer.
What to do
Check and adjust the margin or top-of-form position settings in
your application. For more information, see "Printable area" on
page 92.
You can also adjust the top-of-form position using the Micro
Adjust function. However, settings made in Windows applications
override settings made in Micro Adjust mode. For more
information, see "Adjusting the top-of-form position" on
page 24.
User's Guide
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