Print and evaluate a print quality report
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To print a print quality report
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To evaluate the Print Quality Diagnostic Page
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Ink Levels
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Good color bars
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Ragged, irregularly streaked, or faded bars
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Regular white streaks in the bars
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Bar colors are not uniform
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Large Black Font Text
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Alignment Patterns
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If you see no defects
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Troubleshooting tips and resources
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Solve printing problems
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The device shuts down unexpectedly
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Device takes a long time to print
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Blank or partial page printed
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Something on the page is missing or incorrect
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Placement of the text or graphics is wrong
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Print troubleshooting
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Envelopes print incorrectly
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The product is not responding
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The product prints meaningless characters
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Nothing happens when I try to print
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The margins are not printing as expected
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Text or graphics are cut off at the edge of the page
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A blank page came out while printing
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Print quality troubleshooting
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Wrong, inaccurate, or bleeding colors
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Ink is not filling the text or graphics completely
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The printout has a horizontal band of distortion near the bottom of a borderless
print
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Printouts have horizontal streaks or lines
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Printouts are faded or have dull colors
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Printouts seem blurry or fuzzy
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Printouts are slanted or skewed
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Ink streaks on the back of the paper
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Paper is not picked up from the input tray
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Poor black text
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The product prints slowly
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Advanced printhead maintenance
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Clean the printhead
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Align the printhead
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Solve paper-feed problems
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Solve device management problems
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Embedded Web server cannot be opened
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Solve network problems
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