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I get a shadow effect in printing text so the result is blurry. I understand this could be because there is oil on the timing or encoding strip. How do I fix it? The printer top does not seem to be designed to open and the strip is quite inaccessible...

Sometimes my laptop recognises the printer; sometimes it won't. Sometimes the messages is "printer not detected", which changes after a minute or so to recognition and it prints. Sometimes there's an error message "printer is in an error state". The ...