M283fdw - Extremely Light Printing

[rjherbein]

Only HP ink and cartridges. Have replace the black with new cartridge. Still HORRIBLE. Have watched the board with no answers. Have used HP printers for years. Disappointed with support and quality. I'm out.

[Irfan_06]

Hi @rjherbein,

 
Welcome to HP Support Community.
Thank you for posting your query, I will be glad to assist you.

I understand you are facing print quality issues with your Printer. Not to worry I will help you to resolve the issue.
I suggest you follow the steps from this document to resolve the issue. (Click on the Word document to open the web page).

 

I hope this helps.
Take care and have a good day.

 

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[rjherbein]

I tried all the suggestions. Was disappointed with this device from the beginning but always put off trying to troubleshoot since I had a working Samsung printer and I was more concerned with scanning. Finally got some time to try and troubleshoot. Went as far as buying GENUINE HP Black cartridge to replace the original GENUINE HP black cartridge without success. Printer is out of warranty and I should have pursued when it still was, because printing with a reasonable darkness level did not work out of the box.

HP LaserJets used to be the best printer out there.

Not any longer.

[Irfan_06]

Am sorry to hear that the above document did not help in fixing the issue.

Please click on the link to update the printer firmware to fix it.

If the issue still persists, I'm sending out a private message to assist you with the next course of action. Please check your Private message icon on the upper right corner of your HP Community profile Next, to your profile Name, you should see a little blue envelope, please click on it or simply click on this link.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted for further assistance.

Please click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution. Click the “Kudos, Thumbs Up" on the bottom right to say “Thanks” for helping!