Digital BW, The Print

Hi list,
	I have been away from the list for awhile and just signed back on. What
is the alignment box about? I have never seen this? Are these boxes
supposed to be on an 1160? I have been having microbanding problems with
my 1160 quad mis varitone/archival matte. Nozzle checks are perfect,
high speed is off, What else can I try? Do 1160 users just have to live
with micro banding? BTW the prints are beautiful otherwise.
Thanks 
Randy Laskody

Jerry Olson 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
> 
> 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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