Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

With the color carts in the 1280 both #5 squares were the least 
grainy which is the "in alignment" position, as I understand it. 
After installing the MIS inks the in the first set the #9 patch was 
the smoothest but I was afraid to change anything since I was not 
sure what was going on.

The more I think about it though the "more grainy/less grainy" should 
still hold true for the quads. So I will go ahead and do the 
alignment based on getting the smoothest square to be in the #5 
position and see how it is. There really isn't anything else to do 
but to give it a try. If something gets too out of whack I can always 
pop the color carts back in and realign with those.

I have to confess that I have never realigned every time I changed 
paper. I did it for a while with the 1200 but it never seemed to be 
much out of alignment, if at all, so I stopped doing it. Only if I 
got a banding problem do I realign and that really doesn't seem to do 
all that much good for me. It certainly isn't going to be feasible 
with the 1280 to check every time you want to try an image on a 
different paper. You won't to get much printing done!

So, Jerry, after going through the alignment routine did you get to 
where the #5 boxes are the least grainy? How many times did you have 
to go through the routine to get there?

Thanks,
Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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