Lexmark 4600 Series manual Aligning print cartridges, Cleaning the print cartridge nozzles

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Aligning print cartridges

Using the printer control panel

1Load plain Letter-size paper.

2From the printer control panel, press , and then press .

3Press the arrow buttons until Align Cartridges appears, and then press . An alignment page prints.

Using Windows

1Load plain Letter-size paper.

2Do one of the following:

•In Windows Vista, click .

•In Windows XP and earlier, click Start.

3Click All Programs or Programs, and then select the printer program folder from the list.

4From the printer folder, click Maintenance ΠAlign Cartridges.

5Click Print.

6Follow the instructions on the computer screen.

Using Macintosh

1Load plain Letter-size paper.

2From the Finder desktop, double-click the printer folder.

3Double-click the printer utility icon.

4From the Maintenance tab, click Print Alignment Page.

5Follow the instructions on the computer screen.

If you aligned the cartridges to improve print quality, print your document again. If print quality has not improved, then clean the print cartridge nozzles.

Cleaning the print cartridge nozzles

Using the printer control panel

1Load plain Letter-size paper.

2From the printer control panel, press , and then press .

3 Press the arrow buttons until Clean Cartridges appears, and then press . A page prints, forcing ink through the print cartridge nozzles to clean them.

4Print the document again to verify that the print quality has improved.

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