HP LJ 1100 - Poor font output

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I have been successfully using an HP Laserjet 1100 with Win XP and a
networked machine with Win 98 for six months. The current printer
cartridge is just a month old and worked fine since its installation.
However within the past week, the font output has become muddied and
distorted. Fonts with serifs have blotches within some characters and
overall the quality looks like a very bad inkjet output versus laser.
I downloaded the most current driver and installed and reinstalled it
several times and the problem continues. Some fonts like Arial and
Courier do not seem as bad, however for others like Times New Roman
the output is really poor and unacceptable. The problem persists
within all Microsoft applications and WordPad. Any help will be much
appreciated.

Helen Bridge
 
Helen Bridge said:
I have been successfully using an HP Laserjet 1100 with Win XP and a
networked machine with Win 98 for six months. The current printer
cartridge is just a month old and worked fine since its installation.
However within the past week, the font output has become muddied and
distorted. Fonts with serifs have blotches within some characters and
overall the quality looks like a very bad inkjet output versus laser.
I downloaded the most current driver and installed and reinstalled it
several times and the problem continues. Some fonts like Arial and
Courier do not seem as bad, however for others like Times New Roman
the output is really poor and unacceptable. The problem persists
within all Microsoft applications and WordPad. Any help will be much
appreciated.
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Are graphics distorted as well, if so it may be that your laser
scanner optics are dirty, with luck it may simply be a bad cartridge.
So first off, see if you can borrow a known working cartridge to see
if there is any improvement.

Second, do any areas of toner rub off. If this is the case then it's
likely that your fuser has dirt on it or the sleeve has been damaged.
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe
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I'm looking at an 1100 with a similar complaint.

The self-test page, for example, is VERY different from a known-good one.

Changing the cartridge made no difference.

If you open the little door in the center back of the printer, there is a
tiny button you can push for an engine test--prints parallel lines. In my
case, this test gives an identical result to a known-good printer.

This is still a mystery to me, but it appears we may have similar
failure-modes in these two printers.--maybe we should compare serial
numbers?
 
One other question:

I see another response indicating that HP's repair for multiple-sheet
feeding on this printer sometimes fails.

Do you know whether you have applied this repair to this printer?

It comes as a cardboard kit which you open and apply through the paper in
slot.
 
How do you clean the optics in an 1100?

Model Flyer said:
Are graphics distorted as well, if so it may be that your laser
scanner optics are dirty, with luck it may simply be a bad cartridge.
So first off, see if you can borrow a known working cartridge to see
if there is any improvement.

Second, do any areas of toner rub off. If this is the case then it's
likely that your fuser has dirt on it or the sleeve has been damaged.
--

.
--
Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe
whatever at antispam dot net
No email address given because of spam.
Antispam trap in place
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