Media Feed

This calibration allows you to calibrate the accuracy of the media advance. Inaccurate media advance can result in blank spaces between print swaths (too much advance) or overlapping swaths (too little advance). The Media Wizard stores this value by media type, and displays a media feed number (MFN), which you can record for subsequent entry.

The media feed number enables you to quickly specify a known good media feed setting without recalibration. For example, you could keep a list of media feed numbers by media type, or by media type and full, half, and nearly empty supply rolls.

Tip

You can also adjust the media advance while a print

 

job is printing. Repeatedly press the increase

 

advance or decrease advance button shown on the

 

control panel to eliminate blank spaces or overlap

 

between print swaths. When you do this, the media

 

feed number displayed on the control panel

 

changes accordingly.

 

 

1.Press the  (Menu) key from the Front Page screen on the control panel to display the menus.

2.Press the  (Menu In) key display the Calibrate Printer menu (highlighted by default).

3.Press the  (Menu In) key to select Media Feed (highlighted by default).

4.Press the  (Menu In) key to select an option.

◆10-inch calibration — prints a 10-inch test pattern so you can verify its length with an accurate metal ruler. This is not as precise as the 34-inch calibration, but it uses less media. Measure and adjust the media advance as needed until the pattern is exactly 10 inches long.

Tip

To avoid cutting the 10-inch pattern from the media

 

web, copy the marks from the 10-inch calibration to

 

the long edge of a letter-size (or A4) sheet of paper.

 

Then measure the transferred marks and adjust the

 

media advance as needed until the marks are exactly

 

10 inches apart.

 

 

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Media Feed