Dell J740 Personal Inkjet Printer - Manual (Page 28)

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• Characters are not properly formed or are not aligned at the left margin.
• Vertical, straight lines are wavy.
To align the cartridges:
1 Load plain paper. For help, see page 8.
2 Open the Dell Printer Solution Center. For help, see page 3.
3 From the Maintenance tab, click Align to fix the blurry edges.
4 Click Print.
The alignment page prints aligning the print cartridges.
Cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles
To improve print quality, you may need to clean the ink cartridge nozzles.
Clean the nozzles when:
• Characters are not printing completely.
• White dashes appear in graphics or printed text.
• Print is smudged or too dark.
• Colors on print jobs are faded or they differ from the colors on the screen.
• Vertical, straight lines are not smooth.
To clean the nozzles:
1 Load plain paper. For help, see page 8.
2 Open the Dell Printer Solution Center. For help, see page 3.
3 Click the Maintenance tab.
4 From the Maintenance tab, click Clean to fix horizontal streaks.
5 Click Print.
A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean the clogged nozzles.
• Print your document again to verify your print quality has improved.
• To further improve print quality, try wiping the ink cartridge nozzles and contacts
(refer to your User’s Guide), and then print your document again.
• If print quality has not improved, try cleaning the ink cartridge nozzles up to two
more times.