Improving Print Quality; Aligning Print Cartridges - Lexmark Color Jetprinter Z42 User Manual

Improving print quality

Improving print quality
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If the print quality is not satisfactory, you may need to align
your cartridges or clean the print nozzles.

Aligning print cartridges

Aligning print cartridges
Aligning print cartridges Aligning print cartridges
1 1 1 1 Load plain paper in the printer.
2 2 2 2 From the Control Program's Cartridges
Cartridges. For help, see page 21. Cartridges
Cartridges Cartridges
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 3 3 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 4 4 4 In the Align Cartridges dialog box, enter the pattern numbers
from the printed test page that come closest to forming a
straight line.
Cartridges tab, select Align Cartridges Cartridges
In this example, in
alignment group A A A A , 16 16 16 16
comes closest to
forming a straight line.
Align Align Align