Re: HP Forces Alignment Page on Every Power Reset – Delibera... - HP Support Community

expectme3 · ‎04-30-2025

HP printers like the DeskJet series automatically print an alignment page after every power reset, even if alignment was completed properly. There is no way to disable this, and HP’s support responses consistently deflect or blame the user.

Let’s call it what it is:
Blatant ink and paper waste to drive cartridge sales. HP gives zero f***s about the environment or consumer rights. This is built into the firmware—not a bug, not user error.

We’re done tolerating it:

Filing complaints with Environment and Climate Change Canada and ISED

Launching a regulatory push under CEPA to outlaw forced consumable use

Organizing Ontario users for political and legal action

HP: fix it in firmware, or we’ll force the issue.

If your printer does this and you're in Ontario, reply or message. We’re mobilizing.

expectme3 · ‎04-30-2025

Two threads already exposed this problem:

In both cases, HP reps played dumb—blaming users for not aligning properly or using non-HP cartridges. But the facts are clear: alignment was completed and the printer still prints a page after every power reset. There’s no way to disable it.

Closing the threads won’t bury it. It just proves HP is willing to lie and mislead to protect its ink racket. This is corporate deceit. It’s environmental damage. And it’s deliberate.

Valsimot · ‎04-30-2025

If the alignment page is correctly printed with all colors and alignment marks and alignment page properly scanned and you still get an alignment page printed after power ON then the printer is very likely defective.

Can you scan your alignment page and post it here?

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expectme3 · ‎04-30-2025

Even if alignment were somehow “defective”

(which it’s not),

the printer app clearly says alignment completed successfully. ALL prints fine, all colors show, and it’s scanned properly.

And even if it were defective—what kind of garbage design keeps printing the same page indefinitely with no way to disable it?

Whether alignment fails or not, HP should throttle this behavior. A single failed alignment should never trigger infinite ink and paper waste after every reset.

If the firmware can detect a problem, it can just display a message—not burn a page every time.

Cut the BS. Give us a disable toggle. You’re not fooling anyone. This isn’t about helping the user—this is about selling more ink.

expectme3 · ‎04-30-2025

expectme3 · ‎04-30-2025

So let me get this straight: if a user aligns the printer correctly, but isn't standing there 24/7 to catch every random power flicker—HP thinks it’s acceptable to wake up to 10–15 identical alignment pages printed overnight?

That’s not a defect—that’s a broken design.

By definition, a user isn't always there to place the alignment page or cancel the job. If a storm causes power blips, the printer just burns paper and ink nonstop like that’s normal?

There’s no opt-out, no confirmation, no throttle—just automatic waste.

This isn’t support. This is HP monetizing environmental destruction and blaming the customer for not babysitting their printer.

HP Forces Alignment Page on Every Power Reset – Deliberate Ink Waste by Design

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