Interpreting the Service Configuration Plot
Analyzin the Bar Pattern
The configuration plot has special built8in diagnostic features. It includes seven bars printed along the top that enable you to detect print8quality problems.
First Four Bars
Use the first four bars (from left to right) to detect
DProblems with nozzle firing direction
DMissing nozzles
These bars are a series of straight horizontal lines, four pixels apart. Different nozzles are used to create each of the four bars.
Use a 10X magnifier to look at the patterns. Perfect patterns should be parallel lines equally spaced. Some slight errors in direction (meaning the ink dots are not being fired straight) are due to nozzle imperfections and cannot be fixed. Others may be caused by nozzle contamination. You can sometimes correct these by cleaning the nozzles ( User's Guide).
Fifth and Sixth Bars
Use the fifth and sixth bars to detect
DBanding
DProblems with nozzle firing direction
DMisalignment between the cartridges
In the following two diagrams, F denotes a dot and f denotes a white space. The fifth bar is a 25% area fill pattern that looks as follows,
FfFfFfFfFfFfF fffffffffffff FfFfFfFfFfFfF
The sixth bar is also a 25% area fill pattern that looks as follows:
FfFfFfFfFfFfF fffffffffffff fFfFfFfFfFfFf
These bars should look solid gray.
Seventh Bar
Use the seventh bar to detect misalignment between the cartridges.
This bar is a series of vertical lines, 8 pixels apart. The lines should be straight with a deviation of no more than 2 mils.
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