I installed a new print head. Now I think it needs aligning. How do I do that?

The canon Ip8720 printing alignment due to serval reasons, If you have used

• Wrong size paper
• Dirty scanner glass
• Improper installed printhead

Fix the issue:

Adjust the print head position properly. If the remaining ink level is low, the print head alignment sheet will not be printed correctly. Replace the New cartridge whose ink is low. Make sure to use paper that is white and clean on both sides.
Also,
read the steps to fix the canon printer print head issue and installed it properly.

Hi,
Please try to remove and install the catridge again..This will surely help you!!..Thank you!! Regards!!..

as the print heads are disturbed when changing cartridges and no two cartridges are exact
it is always a good idea to do the alignment after installing new cartridges

Think you need a new print head which is a component in your printer. Canon ink cartridges just contain ink. HP, on the other hand, have ink cartridges with the print head built in to the ink cartridge so that every time you buy a cartridge you basically have a new printer.

Dennis: According to an old FixYa.com, urbanhookupz said: "You need to run a printer alignment page like you do when you put in new cartridges.

unplug your printer plug it back in.
open door and take out print ink cartridges.
put them back in and then close the door.

It should now prompt you to do a test alignment page.

now try and print it should solve the problem.

if it does not prompt you to do a test page

Aligning the Print Head

This operation must be carried out when using the printer for the first time.
Aligning the
Print Head positions allows you to print without shifts in the color registration.
Print head alignment is performed either automatically or manually. This section deals with
automatic Print Head alignment only.
?? Ensure that the Inner Cover is closed.
?? The Print Head can also be aligned from the printer itself.
1.With the printer on, load a sheet of Letter-sized plain paper in the Sheet
Feeder.
2. Hold down the RESUME/CANCEL button until the POWER lamp flashes four
times.
1 With the printer on, load a sheet of Letter-sized plain paper in the Sheet
Feeder.
2 Open the Printer Properties dialog box.
See "Opening the Printer Properties Dialog Box Directly from the Start Menu" on
page 28.
3 Print the pattern.
(1) Click the Maintenance tab.
(2) Click Print Head Alignment."

is the paper coming out with the print on it, if so on most all in one printers it needs you to take the paper out and put it in the scanner and press the go button on the screen or the flashing light button on the printer to finish alignment.

HP print heads are usually a part of the cartridge so when you get a new cartridge you have a new print head. However, they do have a models with separate print heads.

If after installing a good ink supply and cleaning/aligning the works, performance is still unsatisfactory you may have no recourse other than to change the print head which can be expensive to the point where getting a new printer is more cost effective.

You should have access to a set of utilities in your printer set-up panel. It's called 'Canon IJ set-up Utilitiy'
There is a complete list of jobs that can be done on this printer there.
It normally does the alignment routine when you first install the print-head and cartridges. Is this brand new or just new to you? If you have got it second-hand then logically it won't need an alignment doing unless the print-head has been changed.

I think we can put this one to bed as "Poster very unhappy with Epson Printers and Fixya!"

Head Align Failed