What does it mean if my printer says aligment problem? and the paper keeps printing weid lines?

Question

What does it mean if my printer says aligment problem? and the paper keeps printing weid lines?

Answer 1

Usually, desk-jet printers needs to align the ink cartridge to be able to print correctly.

Aligning is the process by which printed image are arranged correctly so as to have better image or characters, not jagged.

Actually, the printer does it automatically without you knowing, but as it says alignment problem means that one of the printer ink cartridges is faulty