Step 1: Performing a Printing Test

Before you carry out actual printing, perform a printing test to ensure no dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs. If dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs, perform cleaning of the print heads (normal cleaning).
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When performing printing tests successively, you can select "FEED" (vertical printing) or "SCAN" (horizontal printing) as the print position for the second and later tests in comparison to the first test.

Procedure
  1. Set up the media.
    Setup of Media
  2. Press [FUNCTION].
  3. Press [▼], then [▶] to display the screen shown below.


  4. Press [ENTER].
    Printing of the test pattern starts.
  5. Check whether there is dot drop-out or dot displacement in the test pattern.
    Missing blocks indicate dot drop-out. Collapsed or inclined blocks indicate dot displacement.
    AP_TESTPRINT_NORMAL

  6. If you have opened the front cover, close it.
    If no dot drop-out or dot displacement occurs, this operation is finished. Press [FUNCTION] to go back to the original screen.