Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "davidkeasey" 
<davidkeasey@...> wrote:
I would say to just order the cal strip, that way you know that the 
machine should be giving you what you need. Alternately you could 
keep checking ebay to see if any turn up in an auction. Note that 
they do expire as the materials age.

I guess if you really wanted to you could print your own, but it's 
accuracy might effect your readings. I don't really suggest this 
method! It's printed on a plastic sheet with a luster finish and then 
measured, there is a sticker placed on the plastic with a few other 
lines. I think this sticker tells the DTP32 what it should have read, 
and then calculates the correction factor. So that sticker could be 
important. I can scan mine on Monday for you, but again, this is not 
the method that I suggest! If you do this, make sure to print it on a 
paper that does not have any OBA, and is also thick enough to be 
really opaque.