Improving print quality, Improving print quality 24, Aligning print cartridges – Compaq IJ1200 User Manual
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Chapter 3
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Improving print quality
If the print quality is not satisfactory, you may need to align
your cartridges or clean the print nozzles.
Aligning print cartridges
1
Load plain paper in the printer.
2
From the Control Program’s Cartridges tab, select Align
Cartridges. For help, see page 21.
Your printer prints an alignment test page and the Align
Cartridge dialog box displays. The test page that prints has
several alignment patterns, depending on the cartridge
combination installed. Each pattern has a number under it.
The test page that prints is similar to the one shown:
3
From each alignment group on the test page, find the number
under the alignment pattern that comes closest to forming a
straight line.
4
In the Align Cartridges dialog box, enter the pattern numbers
from the printed test page that come closest to forming a
straight line.
In this example, in
alignment group A,
16 comes closest to
forming a straight line.