Characters out of alignment - Printronix Line Matrix P5210 Printer

you need to reset the margins. Not just margin release.

Not sure what you mean by double printing.

Is it printing a ghost of what you print further down the page. Or is it mis-aligning the characters so it appears to have a shadow on each character?

I assume you are using windows.

1. Go to START, SETTINGS, PRINTERS, double click on the printer icon. Go to FILE, to PROPERTIES, then click on the printer SERVICES tab. Click on ALIGN the print cartridge button and follow instructions on the screen. hope this works
2. Align the print cartridges Typically, you only align print cartridges after installing or replacing a cartridge. However, you may also need to align cartridges when:
   
   • Characters are improperly formed or are misaligned at the left margin.
   • Vertical, straight lines are wavy.
   From your printer:
   1. Load plain paper.
   2. Press the Menu button, and scroll to Align Cartridges.
   3. Press Select. An alignment page prints. Once this page prints, your automatic alignment is complete.
   From your computer:
   1. Load plain paper.
   2. Open the Canon Pixma IP 1200 Utility.
   3. From the Cartridges tab, click Align Cartridges... . The Cartridge Alignment dialog appears.
      
   4. Click Continue to print the alignment page.
   5. On the Alignment Status dialog, click OK if automatic alignment is successful. If automatic alignment is not successful, clicking OK will return you to Utility Main Window.

Usually that happens when your cartridges need to be aligned.
This page explains how to align cartridges on your printer. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=buu00657&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=422000&tmp_track_link=ot_search
Skip down to the section "Step four: Try to align the page again".

The touchscreen portion of your display is severely out of alignment. Try finding the utility(use hardware keys) to align the display (under settings). Try to align it. If it is too far out of range, it will kick out your "presses". If this happens, you *might* be able to try a reset, but it likely will not work. Otherwise, your only recourse will be replacement or repair.

Try cleaning the inkjet nozzles with the self-cleaning utility if have. Also can try aligning the printheads which is a utility on every printer. I would follow the following steps to rule out possibilities:

1) check black cartridge ink level
2) Take the cartridge out of the printer, moisten a paper towel with luke-warm water - not too wet
then with cartridge in hand, firmly press down and make an imprint on the paper towel as if you're using the cartridge as a "stamper".
- You should see a solid footprint of the black ink.
if not, toss it - even if not empty, its dried up from lack of enough frequent use.

If the footprint passes the test, put back in printer and perform an alignment procedure - that should fix it.

clean or alignment your cartridge then solve it

I have a Smith Corona wordsmith 250. The Daisy wheel is not aligned with the striker, it is two characters off. How do I fix this alignment??

Align your cartridges to solve print quality problems such as: • Characters are not properly formed or are not aligned at the left margin. • Vertical, straight lines are wavy. 1 Load paper in the paper support. 2 On the control panel, press Copy. 3 Press Options until Maintenance appears. 4 Press the right arrow until Align Cartridges appears, and then press Select. An alignment page prints. Once this page prints, your automatic alignment is complete.
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printf("Color %s, number1 %d, number2 %05d, hex %x, float %5.2f, unsigned value %u.\n",
"red", 123456, 89, 255, 3.14, 250);
will print the following line (including new-line character, \n):
Color red, number1 123456, number2 00089, hex ff, float 3.14, unsigned value 250.

The printf function returns the number of characters printed, or a negative value if an output error occurs.

for further inf u can see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf