If you’ve ever had to print an important document in a hurry, you’ll know how frustrating it is when you’ve got strange streaks across the page. Most people think that this is a problem with their toner cartridges but often it is the printer that needs to be adjusted.

Luckily, there is an easy way to fix the altitude settings on your printer. Our technical support team have put together a step by step guide to help you get back to printing properly.

To adjust the altitude settings for your Samsung 101S toner cartridge, please follow these steps:

1. You will need to install Samsung Easy Printer Manager. This programme should be on the disk you got with your printer. If you do not have the installation disk, you can download Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

2. Open Samsung Easy Printer Manger, select your printer from the printer list on the side. Click on the ‘Advanced Mode’ icon to access the altitude settings:

3. Select Device settings:

This will open up the Machine Setup menu.

4. In the Machine Setup menu, go to Altitude Adjustment and select your altitude above sea level. If you’re not sure, select High 3:

You can use this list as a rough guide to your settings depending on your height above sea level:
Normal – 0 to 1000m
High 1 – 1000m to 2000m
High 2 – 2000m to 3000m
High 3 – 3000m to 4000m

5. Click Save and then Click OK:

Your settings will be saved and your printer will no longer print the odd streaks across your page.

If you do get stuck or have any problems, you can always contact us.

• Toners (toner cartridges) are used in laser printers, plain paper faxes, and in plain paper copiers.
    
• Liquid ink (Ink cartridges) is used in inkjet printers, some copiers, and faxes.
    
• If the paper coming from the printer, copier, or fax you are using is warm, it uses toner.
    
• If the ink on the paper is wet, the printer, copier, or fax you are using probably uses printer ink cartridges.
    
• If your cartridge is about as wide as a sheet of paper (9 to 12 inches or 225 to 400 mm) or larger, the system probably uses powdery toner.
  
  

  If your printer ink cartridge is about 3 to 4 inches in size (75 to 100 mm) or smaller, your cartridge probably uses liquid inkjet ink (inkjet cartridges).

An option you have when your ink runs dry is refilling your empty inkjet cartridge with fresh ink from inkjet refill kits. Depending on the manufacturer, many inkjet cartridges can be refilled 3-10 times with inkjet refill kits. Inkjet refill kits allow you to refill the empty cartridge yourself.

  - When you print a large quantity of papers, check the remainder of the ink or status of the head by looking at the print outputs.
  - When you haven't used the printer for a long time, clean the head before print.
  - Replenish the color cartridge even when only one color is exhausted.
  - When you won't be using the printer for an extended period, keep the cartridge in a cartridge storage.    If your printer doesn't have one, wrap the head part with a plastic wrap to keep it from air contact.
  - Caution: Do NOT use general cellophane tape.
  - When the nozzle dried up after having been neglected for a long time, soak it in warm water of 40 to    50 °C, completely remove the water from the cartridge, install, clean the head, then use it.
    (It is very difficult to recover a damaged nozzle.)

- The cartridge head is damaged by excessive use while the ink is insufficient.
- The nozzle is logged after being left unused for a long time.
- The contact surface at the side of the cartridge is wet or damaged so that electric signals cannot be transmitted normally.
- Damaged head or contact surface.
- Due to the cartridge's natural characteristics such as end of its lifespan.

Place the clogged nozzles in a shallow dish filled with warm water and soak them until dried ink begins to flow freely from the nozzle. After several minutes of letting the dried ink flow, remove the nozzle from the water and gently dry it with a soft tissue or cotton swab. Reinstall the cartridge and run the print head cleaning mechanism (described in your printer's operating manual). If this does not work, repeat the procedure. If your cartridge still does not print after repeating, you will need to purchase a new cartridge because the print head of your existing cartridge is probably damaged.

Check if the cartridge is empty. If it is not, place the cartridge on a soft tissue, allowing some ink to leak out. Allow the nozzle to then sit for a few minutes before gently wiping it with a soft tissue or cotton swab. Reinstall the cartridge, run the print head cleaning utility (described in your printer's operating manual) and attempt to print again.

Cartridges should always be handled with care. Do not touch the nozzles. You should keep your cartridges in the protective wrapping until you place them in the printer. If you keep empty cartridges to refill later, they should be stored in an airtight container until you refill them.

1) When data are transmitted from a PC to a printer, laser beams charge positive electricity on the OPC drum according to the characters or figures.
2) The toner that has negative electricity is stained on the magnetic roller, and attracted to the positive electricity of the rolling OPC drum to be stuck on the drum.
3) When the printing paper passes over this drum, the toner is stained and fixed on the paper by high heat and pressure

 

Compatible Inkjet Cartridges:
Brand new cartridges that are not made by the OEM. They are just like your original Ink cartridges and meet the same standards.
In most cases, compatible inkjet print cartridges perform the exact same function as their expensive counterparts, but for much less. The printer warranty will not expire by using compatible inkjet print cartridges. HP and Lexmark do not allow compatible inkjet print cartridges due to the patent they have on the printhead.

Remanufactured Inkjet Cartridges:
Recycled printer ink cartridges that have been refilled with ink and given brand new printer heads. Remanufactured inkjet cartridges are a just as good and they are a great way to save on printer ink cartridges.

New Inkjet Printer Cartridges :
(Original Equipment Manufacturer) inkjet cartridges are direct from the original makers of the printer ink cartridges that came with your printer. New printer ink cartridges are most expensive.