When printing on the 3110cn, the output is consistently misregistered on the page, shifting the output approximately 1/16" to the left from where it should be placed upon the page according to the software and driver settings for the output file and media.
This occurs regardless of paper source (Tray 1, Tray 2, or MPF), driver selection (PCL or PS), or software application (Acrobat, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, or Word) and it's making the production of output that requires precision placement a pain at best and expensive at worst, as this kind of issue is rarely important when merely printing on anything but custom forms.
The entire output is otherwise printed correctly, even very well. It is simply shifted to the left, and occurs despite resetting all available parameters to tare and carefully verifying all margin, media, and output scaling (disabled) options.
Can anyone offer any insight as to whether this is a "feature" or a "bug", and if it manifests itself on their own printers? More importantly, does anyone have a solution, as Dell Support doesn't seem to be willing to discuss any issue if a recognizable page is produced.
Thanks in advance for any first-hand experience or insight.
OK, now I understand. Print quailty and imaging issues can be very subjective. I completeIy misunderstood your initial post. I though that just one of the colors was mis-registered. I'll need to give a friend of mine a call about this. I'll try to re-post here within the next couple of days.
Sure I could. And though I appreciate the offer to help, I don't understand what use the cropped section of the test page could be. The output color registration relative to each of the others is fine. It's the output as a whole that has shifted 1/16 to 1/8" to the left on the media rather than any one color or any subset of the printed output. For example, if you just printed a page consisting of a black frame that ran the perimiter page at the margins, instead of a consistent 1/2" (or whatever your margins may happen to be) around all four sides, the left side of the frame would be 3/8" from the left edge of the page and 5/8" from the right edge.
Nevertheless, if you believe the test page would be helpful, please confirm and I'll gratefully post it.
Could you print the built-in color test page and examine the pie chart area? If you can scan this page, crop-out and copy the pie chart section and insert this image with your reply, I might be able to give you some adjustment guidance.
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Posted January 23rd, 2008 00:00