Print quality troubleshooting
Alignment Diagnostic, Nozzle Health, Force Drop Detection or Print Banding Plot, and press the Enter key to start printing.
4Make sure media is loaded, the Media Lever is lowered and that the Ink System is correctly installed. Press the OK key to print the Diagnostic Print or press Back/Cancel to exit without printing the Diagnostic Print.
5The selected Diagnostic Print will now be printed.
Reading the Diagnostic Print Results
Diagnostic Part 1: Printhead Reliability
The Nozzle Print Test test is designed to check if the Printhead nozzles print correctly.
The nozzles check (top of the plot) is printed in a
For each Printhead, you can see both the adjacent and the consecutive nozzles.
If any nozzles are not printing correctly they will be shown on the right of each Printhead Nozzle test. There is a series of numbered stepped diagonal lines. If one or more of the nozzles are clogged, malfunctioning or mis- positioned, you will see that the stepped lines are broken or misdirected in one or more places.
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