When a laser printer prints, it lays down three primary colors of toner on each piece of paper: yellow, magenta and cyan. Each has its own cartridge and each is aligned independently using a pattern that’s specific to that cartridge. Printers have chips (called metrics) that identify those patterns so they can make sure they’re correct before starting any print job. If you get error messages about misaligned cartridges or find that your page doesn’t look right, then you should be sure your cartridges are all properly aligned printers need them aligned in order to work correctly. The following guide will walk you through how exactly you should go about doing so.
What Is Printer Alignment?
Printer alignment is a necessary process for laser printers. The equipment’s laser isn’t just printing in one spot, so what happens if you don’t align your print head? Your documents would look something like a piece of paper out of a dot-matrix printer. Laser printers are more precise and sophisticated than dot-matrix machines, but they still need calibration to keep your documents looking professional. This is where alignment comes into play. Alignment ensures that all parts of your machine are working correctly together. When you first bring your printer home and unpack it, you can take it through an alignment cycle immediately; there’s nothing you need to do to prepare before using its self-calibration feature for the first time.
Why Do We Need Printer Alignment?
A step-by-step guide on how align your laser toner, inkjet cartridge or color laser copier. Some printers are now equipped with self-alignment features, which is why some manufacturers don’t need you to align your printer. So why is alignment necessary? It all has to do with precision. If a printer gets out of alignment, it might not print text and images clearly and accurately or at all in some cases. Alignment ensures that each and every line of text is precisely printed on paper so you can read them easily with no troubles at all.
How do you prevent your printer from repeatedly printing the printer alignment page without the app?
If you’re sick of seeing an alignment page print out every time you turn on your printer, this is what you need to do
You need to align the ink cartridges and to align the ink cartridges
A. Load letter or A4 unused plain white paper into the input tray.
B. Open the printer software. For more information, see Open the HP printer software (Windows) on page 17.
C. In the printer software, click Print & Scan and then click Maintain Your Printer to access the printer toolbox. The printer toolbox appears.
D Click Align Ink Cartridges on the Device Services tab. The printer prints an alignment page.
E. Follow the on-screen instructions to load the cartridge alignment page print side down on the scanner glass, and then click Scan to scan the alignment page. The printer aligns the ink cartridges and tell you that alignment complete successfully.
F. Recycle or discard the cartridge alignment sheet. This would stop the printer to print alignment page unless you replaced the cartridges. If you printer is printing alignment page every time it means that it was not done properly so I would encourage you to have the alignment complete by following the step outline above and you can also watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkM5WRlKw2k
