If your printouts look grainy or vertical lines appear jagged, you may need to align the print head.
Note: You can also use a printer software utility to align the print head right from your computer. Select the ? or Help button on your printer settings window for instructions running the print head alignment utility.
Note: If you select a pattern other than 8 in any row, that pattern becomes pattern #8 the next time you align the print head.
If pattern #8 is not the best pattern in one or more of the rows, repeat step 7 for those rows.
If pattern #8 is the best pattern in every row, press the OK button to cycle through the questions about each row on the LCD screen. When you see the screen to the right, press the top left button (beside Head alignment in the illustration) to move to a different task in setup mode, or press the Copy, Memory Card, or Scan button to exit setup mode.