Things which may mean you need a New Printer

Who doesn’t do a lot of printing these days? At home, and when I’m home for the holidays as well, my parents still yell at my siblings for printing out directions rather than just writing them down. Offices, churches, homes, schools… the amount of ink we go through is incredible. It also often means that quality suffers for quantity.

Back when I was in college I can remember numerous occasions where the printers would be out of ink for days at a time. Paper is easy to replace, but the toner was just above the level of the student helpers and sometimes even the ones who did know how to pop out a Samsung Toner cartridge would just shrug and say that you can still read it. But maybe I wanted my term paper to look as good as it was written? Supposedly at least….

If you experience quality issues in your own printing the first thing you should do is activate a self check program in the printer. These can be tricky to find but cleaning out the nozzle should make it work better. Sometimes too you may have a bad ink cartridge, especially if you’ve been using non OEM cartridges. These often leave lines or streaks. If your printer is printing off center you want to run the calibration page and scan it back in if possible.

However, if your printer no longer turns on consistently, won’t accept data, or begins leaving long blank patches in the text even with a new cartridge, you may want to invest in something new.