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Adjusting Printing Position

You can adjust the printing position of each tray. Use the following procedure to adjust the printing position.

Important

  • A test page for checking the printing position will be output from the tray specified as a priority tray for [Printer] in [Paper Tray Priority] under system settings. Check that the tray you want to adjust is set as a priority tray before you perform the following procedure.

1Press the [User Tools] key.

User Tools key illustration

2Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select [Printer Features], and then press the [OK] key.

3Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select [List/Test Print], and then press the [OK] key.

4Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select [Test Page] or [Duplex Test Page], and then press the [OK] key.

Print a duplex test page to adjust duplex printing position (Type 2 model only).

5Press [Yes] to print the test page to preview the settings.

Test page illustration

6Press the [User Tools] key.

7Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select [System Settings], and then press the [OK] key.

8Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select [Printer Registration], and then press the [OK] key.

9Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to select the registration you want to adjust, and then press the [OK] key.

10Press the [Up arrow key] [Down arrow key] keys to set the registration value from -15 to +15 (that is, from -1.5 to +1.5 mm, in 0.1 mm increments), and then press the [OK] key.

Increase the value to shift the print area in the positive direction, and decrease to shift in the negative direction. Adjust the margins of the test page so that they are equal in size.

Illustration of registration numbered callout illustration

  1. Feed Direction

  2. Vertical Adjustment

  3. Horizontal Adjustment

  4. Print Area

11Press the [User Tools] key to return to the initial screen.

12Repeat steps 1 to 5 to confirm the adjustment result.

13Press the [User Tools] key.

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