Alignment cartridge Hello, My printer keeps on giving message and job: Press Enter to Align cartridges... I have done this several times and it keeps repeating itself. I have powered off and on. Removed cartridges and replaced them. I have hit the cancel button to cancel the page alignment, this also do no good. All I want to do is get past the align cartridges que. Thank you Saino

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pstriker Nov 06, 2007

replaced black cartridge and display keeps saying...

"press enter to align cartridges"

keep pressing enter and get printout, but still the same message appears

have been informed to clean a transparent tape, where is this tape?
Anonymous Nov 07, 2007

"Remove and check black cartridge....

I have replaced with Office Depot black cartridge #45 when first getting the above message time and again. Replace with HP45 thinking it was fault of ink cartridge, but still getting same message and cannot clear it from my printer window.
Anonymous Dec 22, 2007

where do I find the internal transparent tape to clean?
romero1 Feb 21, 2008

Oh , My printer keeps on giving message and job:
Press Enter to Align cartridges...
I have done this several times...and the cartridges never aligned, What should I do?
Anonymous Apr 18, 2008

message keeps reading align cartridges

page prints blank
Anonymous Apr 27, 2008

My scanner won't scan My scanner won't scan
Anonymous Jun 03, 2008

cartridge not alignment cartridge not alignment
sneedy63 Mar 18, 2009

paper mismatch. Replace transparency with plain paper.

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This is an internal problem in the printer, there is a transparent tape in the printer and it needs cleaning or replaced

Posted on Jun 10, 2007

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Here's the deal with the cartridge alignment page....the machine will spit out a series of black lines mixed with yellow ink and at the beginning of each of these lines is a "Green" check mark. The carriage moves back and forth over these lines and green check marks and reads them by use of what is called a "spot sensor" that resides on the right side of the carriage assembly. This is usually noticed by the blue ray of light that shines out of it. So if you are getting an alignment failure one of two things is happening....1)You've have got a bad cartridge (usually the color) and it is not laying down the right colors, specifically the green check mark or 2)You've got a bad spot sensor...even though it may still be shining the blue light, the sensor board can't process the information. Its an easy fix either way.

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Posted on May 22, 2008

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