My HP Color LaserJet CP1215 has had a color alignment problem for a while. When printing colors, the different primary colors would be printed offset from each other by a few millimeters, producing an unusual visual effect. Internet searching recommended the HP Toolbox, but all the download links for it no longer work. On older OSes, that program was installed with the printer driver (from the CD, maybe? I'm not sure).
I had a virtual machine around with Windows XP, so I connected the printer to that. Fortunately, the Toolbox was indeed installed. You can get to it by double-clicking the fuzzy printer icon in the notification area. In one of the sections (Troubleshooting, probably), there's a button at the bottom labeled Calibrate. Pressing that caused a recalibration, which lasted for several minutes, after which the problem was fixed.
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