Common windows problems, Common linux problems, Common windows problems common linux problems – Samsung ML-1640 Series User Manual

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Troubleshooting

Common Windows problems

Common Linux problems

Curl

If the printed paper is curled or paper does not feed

into the machine:

Turn over the stack of paper in the tray. Also try

rotating the paper 180° in the tray.

Change the printer option and try again. Go to

printer properties, click Paper tab, and set type

to Thin. Refer to the Software section for

details.

An unknown image
repetitively appears
on a next few
sheets or loose
toner, light print, or
contamination
occurs.

Your machine is probably being used at an altitude

of 1,000 m (3,281 ft) or above.

The high altitude may affect the print quality such

as loose toner or light imaging. You can set this

option through Paper or Printer tab in printer

driver’s properties.

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

“File in Use”
message appears
during installation.

Exit all software applications. Remove all

software from the StartUp Group, then restart

Windows. Reinstall the printer driver.

“General Protection
Fault”, “Exception
OE”, “Spool32”, or
“Illegal Operation”
messages appear.

Close all other applications, reboot Windows

and try printing again.

“Fail To Print”, “A
printer timeout error
occurred.” messages
appear.

These messages may appear during printing.

Just keep waiting until the machine finishes

printing. If the message appears in ready mode

or after printing has been completed, check the

connection and/or whether an error has

occurred.

Refer to the Microsoft Windows documentation that came with your

computer for further information on Windows error messages.

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

The machine does
not print.

Check if the printer driver is installed in your

system. Open Unified Driver Configurator

and switch to the Printers tab in Printers

configuration window to look at the list of

available printers. Make sure that your

machine is displayed on the list. If not,

please, invoke Add new printer wizard to set

up your device.

Check if the printer is started. Open Printers

configuration and select your machine on the

printers list. Look at the description in the

Selected printer pane. If its status contains

“(stopped)” string, please, press the Start

button. After that normal operation of the

printer should be restored. The "stopped"

status might be activated when some

problems in printing occurred.

Check if your application has special print

option such as “-oraw”. If “-oraw” is specified

in the command line parameter then remove

it to print properly. For Gimp front-end, select

“print” -> “Setup printer” and edit command

line parameter in the command item.

The machine does
not print whole pages
and its output is half
page printed.

The problem is solved in AFPL Ghostscript v.

8.52 or above. Download the latest version of

AFPL Ghostscript from http://sourceforge.net/

projects/ghostscript/ and install it to solve this

problem.

I encounter error
“Unable to open mfp
port device file!”
when printing a
document.

Please avoid changing print job parameters (via

LPR GUI, for example) while a print job is in

progress. Known versions of CUPS server

break the print job whenever print options are

changed and then try to restart the job from the

beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver locks mfp

port while printing, the abrupt termination of the

driver keeps the port locked and therefore

unavailable for subsequent print jobs. If this

situation occurred, please, try to release the

mfp port.

Refer to Linux User’s Guide that came with your computer for further

information on Linux error messages.

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