Digital BW, The Print

David,

You should probably be using the Sommerset for your alignment check 
or at least something closer in thickness than regular typing paper.

Are you running all three pages of the 1280 alignment check? Some 
people have run only the first without realizing there are two more.

Martin Wesley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., daschkenas@a... wrote:
> I'm printing with a 1280 with MIS pigs.  Lately I've been getting 
> what I can only think of as an alignment problem.  
> Sometimes around a figure, that is against a light sky, I will get 
a 
> slightly unsharp edge noticeable around the figure, definitely 
> looks like something is out of register.  I'm printing on 
> Sommerset enhanced Velvet.
> When I do an alignment utility, I examine the result with a loupe 
> and make the appropriate settings, but still the problem.
> I've been doing the alignment adjustment on regular typing 
> paper, rather than Sommerset paper.  Is this the problem?
> Thanks
> David