Settings/Registration > Preferences > Paper Settings > Registering/Editing Custom Paper Types > Adjusting the Image Position on a Custom Paper Type > Adjusting Lead Edge Alignment
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Adjusting Lead Edge Alignment

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This setting enables you to adjust the image location, by checking whether the register marks on the test page align with the image at the leading edge toward the feeding direction of the test page.

  1. Press (Settings/Registration) → [Preferences] → [Paper Settings] → [Paper Type Management Settings].
  1. Select the paper type that you want to edit from the list → press [Details/Edit].
  1. Press [Change] next to [Adjust Image Position].
  1. Press [Output Test Page].

  1. Select a paper source that contains a custom paper size → press [Start Printing].

The test page is printed.

  • 139.7 mm × 182.0 mm to 330.2 mm × 487.7 mm paper can be used for the test pages. Make sure that a sufficient supply of paper is loaded into the machine before starting this procedure.
  • If you perform test page using paper smaller than 11" × 17" or A3, the entire image cannot be printed on the paper. Nevertheless, you can read the register mark, because the tail edge you do not have to check is lacking.
  1. Check the location of the lead edge image on the front side of the test page.

In the above example, the center line of the register mark is outside the lead edge of the test page (center line of the register mark is NOT printed). Follow step 7 and 8 to adjust the lead edge of the image on the front side of the test page.

  1. Press [Adjust Lead Edge Alignment].

  1. Press [-] or [+] for [Front Side] to input the number of pixels to shift the image.

Input the value from the test page.

Following the example in step 6, input [+4] for [Front Side].

[+]: Press when the center line of the register mark is located outside the edge of the test page (the center line of the register mark is NOT printed). The image is shifted to the backwards as seen from the feeding direction of the paper, according to the number of pixels entered.
[-]: Press when the center line of the register mark is located inside of the edge of the test print. The image is shifted to the forwards as seen from the feeding direction of the paper, according to the number of pixels entered.
  1. Turn over the test page → check the lead edge image on the back side of the test page.

In the above example, the center line of the register mark is inside the lead edge of the test page.

  1. Press [-] or [+] for [Back Side] to input the number of pixels to shift the image.

Input the value from the test page.

Following the example in step 9, input [-6] for [Back Side].


[+]: Press when the center line of the register mark is located outside the edge of the test print (the center line of the register mark is NOT printed). The image is shifted to the backwards as seen from the feeding direction of the paper, according to the number of pixels entered.
[-]: Press when the center line of the register mark is located inside of the edge of the test print. The image is shifted to the forwards as seen from the feeding direction of the paper, according to the number of pixels entered.
  1. Press [OK].
  1. Perform the test page again, and check the location of the image.

Repeat steps 6 to 11 until the center line of the register mark aligns with the lead edge of the paper.

  • When you open the [Adjust Image Position] screen again after you close that screen by pressing [OK], the values on screen are returned to [0]. Nevertheless the adjusted value is effective. If you repeat steps, read off the value of register marks from new test page and input the new value.
  1. Press [OK].

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