{"id":5573,"date":"2017-11-22T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:36:15","slug":"lexmark-c6160-firmware-update-to-correct-faded-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/lexmark-c6160-firmware-update-to-correct-faded-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexmark C6160 Firmware and Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Lexmark C6160 printer might have the following problems if the firmware is not updated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faded Printing<\/strong>: When the printer transitions from one tray to the next, prints from the secondary tray appear faded or partially printed on the first label.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misfeeds<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamming<\/strong> &#8211; Eco Mode minimizes the use of energy, paper or specialty media (such as DuplexPackSlip labels). Setting Eco Mode to \u201cEnergy\u201d or \u201cPaper\u201d may slow the printer output speed, which reduces the probability of jamming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minisoft recommends firmware\u00a0CSTPP.041.213a for the Lexmark C6160 printer.\u00a0 This firmware update corrects a print quality issue that occurs when transitioning between paper trays on the Lexmark C6160 laser printers. Lexmark determined that this document fade was occurring during the transition time moving from feeding a consumable from tray 1 to feeding a consumable from tray 2.<\/p>\n<p>The official PE release firmware with the fix for the print fade issue is now available and can be downloaded directly from Lexmark at the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ccs.lexmark.com\/firmware\/materials\/963041\/file\">Lexmark C6160 Firmware Update<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you update to this firmware and still experience problems, please investigate the following issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you recently move to a new batch of labels?<\/li>\n<li>Are you fanning multiple sides of labels before loading them into the printer?<\/li>\n<li>Are labels stored in a cool, dry location?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find your printer&#8217;s settings at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/11.22.33.44\/#\/Settings\/Print\">http:\/\/&lt;IPAddress&gt;\/#\/Settings\/Print<\/a>, where you subsitute &lt;IPAddress&gt; with the IP address of your printer.<\/p>\n<h2>Check your Lexmark C6160 Serial number<\/h2>\n<p>The Lexmark serial number is available from the IP address administrative interface. Ours is here:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.23.160\/#\/Settings\/Reports\/ReportDeviceGroup\">http:\/\/192.168.23.160\/#\/Settings\/Reports\/ReportDeviceGroup<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click Device information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For example, if the device has a serial number of 5063<strong>750<\/strong>010GXH, it indicates that it was manufactured the 50<sup>th<\/sup> week of 2017, the 7 being 2017 and the 50 being the week. This device should already have the new sensor in it. Anything higher than 744 has the new aperture installed.<\/p>\n<p>If the printer&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>S\/N#<\/strong>\u00a0is before xxxx744<strong>*<\/strong>xxxxxx, install the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.lexmark.com\/library\/LEXMARK\/COLOR_HARDWARE\/CS820_CX82x\/TE827\/TE827AperaturePlate.png\">aperture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.lexmark.com\/index?page=content&amp;id=SO8504&amp;actp=search&amp;viewlocale=en_US&amp;segment=SUPPORT&amp;productCode=LEXMARK_C6160&amp;locale=EN&amp;userlocale=EN_US&amp;searchid=1536875367082#aperture\">aperture<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0was permanently implemented in production on\u00a0<strong>most<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>units<\/strong>\u00a0before\u00a0week\u00a0<strong>44<\/strong>\u00a0of 201<strong>7<\/strong>. Counting from the left, this date code is embedded in the\u00a0<strong>S\/N<\/strong>\u00a0by digits\u00a0<strong>6<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>7<\/strong>, &amp;\u00a0<strong>8<\/strong>. Any printer manufactured with a date code\u00a0<strong>higher<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>744\u00a0<\/strong>will\u00a0<strong>already<\/strong>\u00a0have the\u00a0<strong>aperture installed<\/strong>\u00a0at the factory.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Lexmark, Duplex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Lexmark C6160 printer might have the following problems if the firmware is not updated: Faded Printing: When the printer transitions from one tray to the next, prints from the secondary tray appear faded or partially printed on the first label. Misfeeds Jamming &#8211; Eco Mode minimizes the use of energy, paper or specialty media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[285,287,462,284,461,286,463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}