Printer test pages by brand

Test pages by printer brand

• HP — HP splits into two very different machines: inkjet heads on DeskJet, ENVY and OfficeJet that can clog, and LaserJet toner engines that cannot. This sheet works on both, and the report table below prints the machine’s own page alongside it.
• Canon — PIXMA inkjets and imageCLASS lasers share a badge and almost nothing else, and they reach a self-test by completely different routes. Both are covered here, including the Canon button combination that prints a nozzle check with the computer switched off.
• Epson — Epson fits a permanent printhead to most of its consumer machines, which makes a nozzle check the single most useful page you can print and the one most likely to save an expensive head. Here is the sequence for machines with a screen and for machines without one.
• Brother — Most Brother machines are toner printers with a single Go key, and almost all of them will print a test page from a button combination with the computer switched off. That combination is recorded below, alongside the MFC menu path and the driver route.
• Samsung — Samsung’s consumer lasers mostly have no display at all, which is why the whole troubleshooting routine usually hangs off one button held during power-up. That button, and the menu route for the machines that do have a screen, are recorded below.
• Lexmark — Lexmark calls its built-in report the Menu Settings Page and, on older machines, the Internal Test Page. Either way it is reached from the same corner of the control panel, and it tells you status while this sheet tells you quality.
• Xerox — Phaser machines print a demo page and a configuration sheet from the same button, told apart only by how long you hold it. Larger devices put both behind the Information or Print Reports menu. Both routes are below.
• Kyocera — Kyocera calls its built-in report the Status Page, and reaches it from System Menu on touchscreens and from Report Print on two-line panels. A few ECOSYS models will print it from the green Go key with no menu at all.
• Toshiba — Toshiba e-STUDIO devices keep their built-in test under System Settings, in a submenu called List Print. It is deliberately buried, which is why most people never find it until something has already gone wrong.
• Dell — Dell sold several generations of rebadged laser hardware, so the same machine answers to a different button depending on which year it shipped. The Continue-key hold and the menu routes for the common series are both below.
• Ricoh — Ricoh keeps its built-in test under a menu called List Test Print, which is easy to walk past. Several SP models will also print one from a repeated power-key press, with no menu navigation at all.
• Zebra — A thermal label printer fails differently from an office machine: dead print-head dots rather than clogged nozzles, and darkness rather than toner. The Feed button prints the configuration label that tells you how it is set up.
• Panasonic — Panasonic shipped laser and multifunction hardware across several unrelated generations, and the panel wording moved with each one. The driver route has never moved, which is why it leads the table below.
• OKI — OKI printers carry a shortcut that most owners never find: press Fn, type one hundred, press OK, and the configuration page feeds out. It needs no computer and no menu navigation at all.