If you experience smudged prints when printing from your PIXMA G4200, the Prevent paper abrasion option may help to resolve this issue. Follow the steps below to toggle this option from a Windows PC.
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Open the printer driver setup window.
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With the printer powered on, click Custom Settings in the Maintenance tab.
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Select Prevent paper abrasion.
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Click OK. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
Prevent paper abrasion is set.
When printing with this option enabled, you may see a message similar to this:
Click OK on this message.
To disable Prevent paper abrasion, follow steps 1-4 above, but remove the check from Prevent paper abrasion in step 3.