Tally T8006 User Manual - Slow Or No Printing

Chapter 9 Troubleshooting

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Slow or No Printing

Slow or no printing may be due to various causes. Proceed to the 

following problem-and-correction procedures.

Caution!  

Do not disassemble the printer for further troubleshooting and/

or repair. If the problem is not found and corrected after following these 

troubleshooting steps, contact a Tally Service Technician. 

Slow or No Printing

Possible Cause

Correction

The printer will not turn 

on.

The power cord is discon-

nected or damaged.

Replace and/or connect the 

power cord.

There is no power to the wall 

socket.

Have the circuit breakers and 

power source checked by a 

qualified electrician.

Unknown or garbled con-

trol panel message.

The printer was not turned on 

properly.

Turn the power switch off.

Wait approximately 5 seconds.

Turn the power switch on.

Printing is slow.

The printer is set to print on 

special paper, which takes 

twice the time as printing on 

plain paper.

Set printer to plain paper print-

ing.

The printer is set to print in 

High-Quality mode.

Set the printer to Standard 

mode or High Speed mode 

(page 49).

The personal computer cannot 

process the print data quickly.

Provide proper operating 

hardware and software for the 

printer.

The parallel port operating 

mode for the personal com-

puter and the printer is set for 

Standard or Bidirectional 

mode.

Set the operating mode for the 

parallel port to ECP 

(page 131).

The logical printer is adding or 

replacing character strings.

Set the logical printer so it can-

not add or replace character 

strings.