Lexmark Z43 User's Guide for Macintosh - Page 36

Improving print quality, Aligning the print cartridges

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Steps to basic printing Beyond the basics Maintaining your printer Troubleshooting Appendix Maintaining your printer Improving print quality If print quality is not satisfactory, you may need to align your print cartridges or clean your print nozzles. Aligning the print cartridges Normally, you only align the print cartridges after installing a new print cartridge. However, you may also need to align the print cartridges when: • The black portions of a graphic or text do not align properly with the color portions. • Characters are not aligned correctly at left margin. • Vertical lines appear "wavy." To align your print cartridges: 1 Load plain paper in the printer. 2 Open the Control Panel. For help, see page 30. 36 Index

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Maintaining your printer
Beyond the basics
Maintaining your printer
Troubleshooting
Appendix
Index
Steps to basic printing
Improving print quality
If print quality is not satisfactory, you may need to align your print
cartridges or clean your print nozzles.
Aligning the print cartridges
Normally, you only align the print
cartridges after installing a new print
cartridge. However, you may also need
to align the print cartridges when:
The black portions of a graphic or text
do not align properly with the color portions.
Characters are not aligned correctly at left margin.
Vertical lines appear “wavy.”
To align your print cartridges:
1
Load plain paper in the printer.
2
Open the Control Panel. For help, see
page 30
.