How to align HP 60 ink cartridges installed in HP F4480 printers

This post will teach you how to align the HP 60 ink cartridges installed on your HP f4480 printer in just a few steps.

Aligning your ink cartridges is a very important tool to know how to use, since it can solve several different printing errors on your printer, such as lines on the sheets, the use of an improper ink color for a document or picture, and/or blurry prints.

This is a very simple procedure if you’ve already installed the HP solution center program, created to configure your printer. Another program is usually installed along with your printer, and it allows you to customize and modify certain aspects of it, such as paper size and printer color selection among many others.

You can usually access all these options by entering your printer’s configuration, which you can learn how to do by following the steps we’re about to explain you. If you need any help with this, please contact us.

Even when you already have this default program installed on your computer, you will also need to get an extra piece of software called HP solution center. However, if you’ve installed your printer’s drivers with the original CD it came with, you will not need to look for it online, since it’s already been installed with everything else.

If you’ve downloaded these drivers from the internet, you will need to download the program yourself and install it on your computer. In order to download this program direcctly from the HP website, please click on the following link.

Alignment procedure for the HP 60 ink cartridges:

Step #1:
In order to access the HP solution center program, you must enter the start menu on your computer first. We will show you how to open this program both from windowsxp and windows7. For windowsxp, please follow the next set of sequence: click on start menu - all programs - HP - Hp solution center.

If, on the other hand, you need to access this program from windows7, stick to this other series: click on the windows logo - all programs - HP - HP solution center.

Step #2:
The HP solution center program will open in a new window. Now take a look at the following picture.

hp solution center program

Step #3:
Now that you’re inside the HP solution center program, click on the configuration icon located on the lower-right side of the window. This next image will show you how it looks.

tool symbol

Step #4:
After clicking on the configuration icon, a new window will appear on screen. there you will need to click on the printer toolbox option.

Step #5:
Once you’re inside this toolbox, look for another option called printer cartridge alignment and click on it. This should look like the icon shown in the following picture. Please take a look at it.

symbol to click

Step #6:
Then, a confirmation message will appear, and you will print a test sheet directly from your printer. You must keep this sheet and have the same printer scan it. From now on, this post will teach you how to print a test sheet, that you can scan at any moment with your own printer.

You may also be interested in learning how to scan on an hpf4480 printer:

Usually, we’d use this information to scan the test sheet on the same printer that made it. You may already know how to scan a document on this printer but, if you don’t, please read the following information, which may be very helpful to you now and in the future. You can find all of these solutions in the information the printer manufacturer supplied you with.

In order to scan one of these pages, you will need to lift the scanner’s lid, also known as the photocopier lid on your printer. Now take a look at this next picture.

scanner cover open

Now you must place the document you want to scan on the actual scanner. We recommend you put the side of the page that holds all the information facing downwards. You will need to place the paper sheet right on the middle of the crystal, on the exact position of the scanner.

The next picture will help you with your scanner. Please take a look at it.

correct way to place the documents scanner

What you must do next is locate the scan button on the printer’s panel, which is usually located on the left side of it, close to the scanner crystal. Also, the scanner is usually marked with the scanner symbol we’re about to show you in the next picture.

scanner button

Wait for the printer to finish the scanning process. These sheets are usually saved on the pictures folder in your computer, but they can also be located on my pc - scanned images. However, your scanner could ask you where to save these images before scanning them.