My Canon MF731cdw printer, which was connected by direct connection to my laptop, either would not print at all or would only print after a long delay, so I deleted it in Windows 10 and reinstalled it. This solved the problem and it now immediately prints on command but the reinstallation created a new problem. On the very first page I printed immediately after reinstallation the text was very faint whereas it was normal density before the reinstallation. I do not believe it is a cartridge problem as it never goes from full density on one page to suddenly extremely faint on the very next page when the cartridge is starting to run low. Also, I printed from the same pdf document before and after the reinstallation, and tried to print a different document but got the same faint result, so it is not a problem within the file I was trying to print.
I thought maybe Windows had installed obsolete drivers during the reinstallation that were causing the faint print problems, so I decided to download new drivers directly from the Canon site but when I tried to install them, I got a message saying that the old MF drivers need to be deleted first before I can install the new ones. However, I had already deleted the printer once again from Windows before I tried to install the new drivers.
What should I do next?
