Aligning The Ink Cartridges - Dell A920 Owner's Manual

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NOTICE: Do touch the gold contact area on the cartridges.
Insert the new cartridges. Make sure the color ink cartridge is secure in the left carrier
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and the black cartridge is secure in the right carrier, and then snap the lids closed.
Lift the printer (scanner unit) and push the scanner support back while lowering the
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printer (scanner unit) until it is closed.

Aligning the ink cartridges

There are two instances when you will align your ink cartridges: after installing cartridges
and to improve print quality.
To align the ink cartridges:
Load plain paper in the printer. For help, see page 12.
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Open the Dell Printer Solution Center. For help, see page 8.
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From the Maintenance tab, click Align to fix blurry edges.
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Click Print.
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An alignment page prints.
To manually align your cartridges, select the best alignment values from the alignment
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page.
Find the number under the darkest arrow for each alignment group.
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Use the arrows in the Align Cartridges dialog box to select the number that
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matches the arrow you chose from the printed page.
Once you have selected a number for each of the alignment groups, click OK.
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NOTE: If the alignment page does not print, make sure you have completely removed the
stickers and transparent tape from both ink cartridges, and then try to align the cartridges
again.
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Maintenance