Digital BW, The Print

I've never seen any of the lines look blurred under a 4x loupe but I've 
never had any difficulty seeing the ones that aren't properly aligned. It's 
usually the ones on either end and in about two or three more from either 
end. Those tend to be obviously misaligned, with the middle part of the line 
jutting out a little to the left or right of the rest of the line. Then as 
you get away from the extremes it becomes more difficult to see any 
differences though I can usually narrow it down to only two lines that look 
the same, from there I guess. I think it helps if you start with your loupe 
at one end or the the other and then gradually move in while looking at each 
line with the loupe. That makes it easier, I think, to tell what it is 
you're looking for in the way of alignment since the ends are usually 
clearly wrong.

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "koloshor" <koloshor@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Alignment


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Colson"
<colson@...> wrote:
>
> All of this recent talk of alignments brings up an issue. Surely,
> there is a better way to assess alignment than the Epson utility on
> desktops like the 2200. I have given myself headaches examining the
> alignment patterns under a lupe and I'll be dam%ed if I can find any
> difference in any of the patterns, let alone which numer is best. Does
> anyone else out there have the same experience? Is this just the way
> it is?

Don't look at me, I can see them without a loupe, although I usually
use one to "fine tune" my decision.

Patrick is right, there's no such thing as having all the patterns
look good because the machine is already well "aligned". But if
something is causing the detail of the patterns to be obscured, they
can all look equally bad. I've found that this happens when I set a
2200 or 2400 to the wrong paper height, or specify an incorrect
"platen gap" on the 4000 or 7600. Too far away, and you get a lot of blur.




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