How to clean/align printer cartridges in Debian?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

I haven't used a deskjet in years, but recently acquired one for my 
Debian box. The black ink seems to be a problem, smearing, skipping, etc.

I seem to remember from back in my Windows days there were some tools in 
the "Toolbox" to do such things as align the ink cartridges or clean 
them. Is there such a means in Debian to accomplish this? I'm pretty 
illiterate when it comes to printing in Debian; I've managed to install 
cupsys and foomatic-filters-ppds and configure the printer via Moz at 
"localhost:631", but there's not anything I see there for cleaning the 
cartridge.

Thanks!

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Kent