Print quality troubleshooting
2To calibrate the Paper Advance from the user menu, go to Main Menu/ Image Quality Maintenance/Paper Advance Calibration/Calibrate Paper Advance.
It is very important to verify that the loaded media is the same media type as selected in the front panel. You can verify the media type selected through the Front Panel (Main Menu/Paper menu/View loaded paper). The wrong type of paper selected will produce an offset error in the Paper Advance.
Some paper types are not suitable for Paper Advance Calibration. Do NOT use colored papers or transparent materials such as translucent bond, clear film, matte film, tracing paper, or vellum.
Paper Advance calibration from the user menu will only calibrate the Paper
Advance for the paper type loaded in the printer at that moment.
3If Calibrate Paper Advance has mostly solved the problem, try Adjust Paper Advance to fine tune the Paper Advance (Main Menu/Image Quality Maintenance/Paper Advance Calibration/Adjust Paper Advance).
Select the percentage of change from
4The Paper Advance calibration from the service menu will calibrate the Paper Advance for ALL paper types. This action is recommended when:
The Paper Advance calibration from the user menu does NOT solve the problem.
The Paper Advance problems affect ALL paper types.
The procedure for Paper Advance Calibration from the service menu is documented in Chapter 5, Service Calibrations. See Paper Advance Calibration on page
Printhead Alignment
To ensure you obtain meaningful results, use the same type of media that the customer was using when they encountered the image quality problem.
This plot helps you to visually check any alignment problems of the printer. You use it to precisely measure the alignment error with a 3 dot row accuracy. For the printer to be considered correctly aligned, the results must be within ±3 dot row.
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