I don't know anything about Xerox(?) printers.
And I don't know what to do about this in Linux. But my HP 720 requires an
alignment (through the proprietary Windows driver). If your's did as well,
I suppose you could install a Windows partition and run it long enough to
align the print heads and see if that solved the problem. Or possibly one
of the Windows emulators would work. I don't think HP plans any more
support of any kind for these printers. Based on my experience, you would
only need to do this once after replacing/cleaning/futzing with the print
cartridges.
OTOH, if this process is just calibrating the Windows driver, then you're
going to have to hack the linux driver (is this one of the ppa printers?).
Or, it could be something like a worn roller.
Good luck.
-Alan
At 05:04 AM 12/22/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a printer problem that I am _almost_ hoping is common enough that
>people will know the solution:
>
>I have a Zerox DocuPrint XJ6C, which is supposed to be highly compatible
>with the HP DeskJet 500 series, in particular a couple of the models.
>So I was able to get it printing without a lot of trouble when I found
>that out. However, the alignment is horrible...
>1) everything prints straight relative to itself, but at a slant, such that
>the left/top margins are not the same distance from the edge as the right/
>bottom margins.
>2) on some of the DeskJet drivers, you can see the bottom edge, and on
>some not, but even the ones where you can, the top is not the same distance
>from the edge as the bottom is.
>
>The above applies to postscript printing. When I print a text page,
>1) there is still the unevennes.
>2) all the text is shifted about 1 character to the right, i.e. the
>first character is about 1 character closer to the edge than the 80th
>character, which I presume should be exactly the same distance. Also,
>The respective first and 80th columns are both too close to the edge for
>what is normal, although I could (I guess) take care of that by always
>putting a tab on the first character, and then making sure I end lines
>early).
>
>I know that the postscript part is not just from a badly formatted doc,
>because I was using red hat's printtool to test it.
>
>One last thing, it seems that every page is aligned a little differently.
>
>Thanks
>Mark Price
>
>
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