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Every office has the same printer ritual: someone walks to the machine, finds streaks or an error light, shakes the cartridge like a magic 8-ball, and opens a ticket that says “printer broken.” Most of those tickets are five-minute fixes — if the first person at the machine knows what to check, in what order. This checklist is the one we would laminate and tape to the side of every office printer. Ten checks, in the order that resolves the most tickets the fastest. Work through

Your printer was fine yesterday. Today every page has lines down it, or the text looks washed out, or there are dots marching down the margin in perfect formation. Print quality problems feel random, but they almost never are: each defect pattern points at a specific part, and most of them you can diagnose in ten minutes with nothing but a test page and a ruler. This guide works symptom by symptom. Find yours, run the test, and you will know whether the fix is two minutes of cleaning, a setting,