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LaserJet 4250 print alignment

Asked by wesleymcgugan@gmail.com

We have a number of printers on site(HP and Xerox).. All have Redhat 3 print queues configured as standard laserjets. These take their primary input from Oracle Applications.
We have recently bought a Laserjet 4250dtn and is setup in our environment with the same settings are our existing printers.

The Laserjet 4250 is not printing our reports correctly. We've found that the output on our pre-printed stationery does not line up, with descrpancies of 3-5mm across and down.

I've performed test prints from Redhat Linux command line to the 4250's print queue, each time modifying the printer type eg. Laserjet, laserjet4. This has had no effect on the output. The output from the 4250 is consistently different for all our existing printers.

Is there any reason why the output form the 4250 should be any different to any other laserjet, for example a 2015?

I have installed the appropriate PPD for the 4250 but this hasn't rectified the issue.
My test print included PCL escape codes to reset the printer and set to A4.

I would be grateful for any thoughts
Thanks

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John Hosszu (john-hosszu) said : 		#1

Good Day

This might be trivial but could you post back

$ hp-check -t

Thanks

jh

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wesleymcgugan@gmail.com (wesleymcgugan) said : 		#2

Hi,
I don't appear to have this command on my system.

Do you think changing the registration is something that could help?

Thanks

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John Hosszu (john-hosszu) said : 		#3

Is HPLIP installed? Are you running HPLIP or just CUPS?

Thanks

jh

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wesleymcgugan@gmail.com (wesleymcgugan) said : 		#4

Hi jh
I've changed the registration on one of the 4250's to match the output we get on our other printers. I was able to bump the print image by a few millimeters. I didn't realise we would get these differences between HP Models

Our server doesn't have HPLIP installed, just CUPS - sorry!
Thanks for your response