How to Use a Printer to Print
Delight follow instructions below on how to impress a printer test page. If your impress test shows problems with colors or crispiness and then your toner or ink cartridge may be low.
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This article is part of the
Printer and Printing Troubleshooting Guide.
A
Printer Test Page
is printed to check that text and graphics can be printed correctly past the printer. The examination page unremarkably likewise shows y’all extra information such every bit the commuter software version which can be used to if you need to troubleshoot problems. We have listed the printer driver download links for the most mutual printer brands – find your
printer driver hither.
Read our
note on print quality
or go directly to our
printer and printing troubleshooting guide
to solve whatever printer related trouble.
There are basically three ways to print the printer test page:
one.
Press your own printer test folio
ii.
Printing the printer test page provided by the printer software
3.
Press the printer test page provided by the Operating Organisation
Printing your own printer test folio
If you want alternatives to the standard test page, you lot tin use the pictures we link to below.
Usage: Click on the link which volition launch a new window.
Correct click
and select
“Print Picture…”
to print the exam page on your printer. Don’t forget to connect and switch on your printer!
1.
Impress test page (color)
– A examination page to check the ability to print many colors correct.
2.
Impress test folio (CMYK)
– A test page for testing the
CMYK
colors in your printer.
three.
Impress test page (full test)
– Use this test page for doing a full test (Grayscale, RGB, CMYK and dashed border lines).
4.
Print examination page (black)
– Full size black test page
5.
Print examination page (xanthous)
– Total size yellow test page
6.
Print test page (cyan)
– Full size cyan test page
7.
Print test page (magenta)
– Full size magenta test page
Printing the printer test page provided past the printer software
Well-nigh all mod printers have congenital in capabilities for printing a printer test page. Procedures to exercise so vary, please check your printer manual on how this should exist done specifically on your printer. Please note that you demand to install the CD that came with your printer in order print the printers own default test folio.
If you can’t notice your printer transmission, delight go to the
printer manual search
page.
Printing the printer examination page provided by the Operating System
Below guide outlines how to print a printer test page through Windows XP, Windows Vista or Ubuntu. If y’all accept other operating systems, please search through your documentation on how this should be done.
Bold that you lot are using
Windows XP:
one. Go to the start bar.
2. Click on the control console and choose Printer and Fax.
4. Right click on your printer and click on its properties.
v. Click on the General tab and look toward the bottom of the box. Click on the �Print Test Page� button and your printer volition automatically print it for you.
Assuming that you are using
Windows Vista:
ane. Go to the first bar.
2. Click on the control panel and choose Hardware and Audio and clicking on Printers.
4. Right click on your printer and click on its backdrop.
five. Click on the General tab and expect toward the bottom of the box. Click on the �Print Test Page� button and your printer will automatically impress it for you.
Bold that yous are using
Ubuntu:
1. Go to System > Assistants and Printing
2. Right click on your printer and select its properties.
3. Click on the “Impress a Test Page” push button. You volition go a printer exam page that includes the Ubuntu logo and eight different color confined.
Print Quality Problems detected while press the printer test page
Read our
Printing Problems Article
if yous have problems with the quality of the print. Please call back that many things may touch on the quality such as:
- The printer and the quality of the raster image processor and the used color engine
- Type of used paper
-
Ink
and
toner
quality - Used color space
- Used ICC contour
If you lot installed the CD that came with the printer you will probably accept a congenital in functionality to make a hardware cocky test and to run a plan that can marshal and
clean the printheads.
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