Digital BW, The Print

Tom, I'm aligning the heads with the MIS hextone inks. The #9 patch is the least grainy. I don't understand how that aligns the heads! I now
have flawless prints with the creamiest smoothest tones possible, but the prints I had been making aren't much different if at all. This
would be the first time in 2 full sets of ink bottles that the printer has been aligned properly, it never was aligned before, as I just
kept clicking the realignment button, I always wondered why it took so many times to realign the heads. After about 8 tries, they were
aligned, but were they really? I got the 8's to align correctly , but never printed the boxes to choose the least grainy box.

Maybe they were aligned, maybe not.

Jerry




Tom Keesling wrote:

> That's interesting...and good to hear! If you have that much
> latitude, I wonder why, given your experience with the 1280, I and so
> many others have had such problems with the Piezo Color inks in the
> 1280? I could never get a clear indication of which color patches to
> select when I ran the printhead alignment as long as the Piezo Color
> inks were being used.
>
> I wonder if our two printers happen to be from opposite ends of the
> quality control spectrum, or if something else in its design explains
> this seeming paradox. Or is it possibly just a difference in the
> characteristics of the two inksets?
>
> Not a technician by any means...
>
> Tom
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Well actually, that is interesting. The prints I have been printing
> aren't that much different from the ones I am now getting with the
> heads
> > properly aligned. Even though the heads weren't aligned correctly,
> there must be a lot of wiggle room. I have never seen banding on the
> > 1280.  It sure does take a long time to align the heads on the
> 1280. Nearly an hour.
> >
> > Jerry
>
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