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Re: [Digital BW] paper thickness and head alignment

2002-01-08 by Daniel Perez

Is having all the 8's lined up the ideal allignment
output?  wasn't sure.

  -daniel


--- shashinka@... wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/7/02 8:46:41 PM,
> hsandall@... writes:
> 
> << I was just playing around with shifting the
> thickness lever on my 1160 
> between + and O and then trying to align the
> printheads.  When set to + 
> , the heads were way off to the 15 side of things. 
> So, I aligned them 
> numerous times until I got them centered all on 8's.
>  Then I printed an 
> image and saw micro banding.  Next, I set the lever
> to O, and checked 
> the alignment.  This time they were way off to the 1
> side.  It took me 
> several cycles to get them all lined up on 8's. 
> Does this behavior seem 
> natural?  Should the aligntment be THAT far off just
> by changing the 
> thickness?
> 
> Any help on this question would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Heath Sandall >>
> 
> I notice it can be off a lot too.  Was there micro
> banding at 0?
> 
> All the best!
> 
> -Andy Darlow
> 
> Photography, Digital Print Consulting and Custom
> Editions
> 
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> www.andydarlow.com
> andy@...
> Toll free- 1-877-ADarlow
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