Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

I could have this wrong and I will check once I am back in front of 
the printer with the manual but I believe that if the #5 square is 
the best you just click "Finished" or "OK". If the #5 is not the best 
you pick the one that is closest and click "Realign", it goes through 
the whole process again, then check again to see if the #5 is okay 
repeating this loop until #5 is the best.

I will give it a try tonight. I agree with you though on the "If it 
ain't broke..."

I also did one print on the Eclipse Satine 190 gsm using Paul's nc4 
curve. WOW! This hits so close to silver fiber it gives me goose 
bumps! I think the curve works even better on the Satine than the 
EAM. Possibly the Satine 190 gsm for work prints (its double sided so 
the price is within range of the LPM) and then the Satine 300 or 
Velvet 350 for the final.

One word of caution, I may be seeing some faint mottling in smooth 
areas. I know I saw heavy mottling on a sample Satine print printed 
with Piezo. So there may be some quality issues with Brightcube's 
coating. I hope not.

Also a note for Piezo ink users. This is not a good ink/paper match 
and gives a very weak image.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Martin, I guess i just didn't understand what is needed to properly 
align the heads of the 1280. I only did it twice, and both times, the
> Number 9 patch looked the best. The directions seemed to say if you 
got a grainless set of squares, you were supposed to click "finish". 
So
> I did. I didn't know that the #5 Position had to be the least 
grainy!
> 
> Anyhow, that's all I did. I suppose I could try it again today. 
Funny the second time was identical to the first though.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> If the third time still shows the #9 position to be the same, I 
give up. The prints look flawless as they print now. If it ain't 
broke,
> don't fix it.