Strange, I thought there is nothing to focus about lasers, after all those are in-phase, rectilinear beams with extremely low dispersion!? Could it be the so called focus procedure is rather an alignment process to insure the three laser spots overlap?
Servus, Alin Butch wrote: BB> There is also the possibility that the focus on the d-lab is off a touch. I BB> never worked with a d-lab, but the frontiers have a routine that focuses the BB> 3 lasers, so I assume the same is true with the agfa. Try giving them a BB> negative you know is in sharp focus and see how the result comes out. It is BB> also possible that they don't realize that their machine has drifted out of BB> focus. That happened to me at Eckerds. My analog Fuji was a touch soft. I BB> didn't notice until a new customer brought in a large order, complained BB> that it was soft, took a couple frame to be printed at a competitor and BB> brought them back. I then got to adjust focus on the machine without the BB> proper focus neg. Luckily I have a masters in "seat of the pants". :) It is BB> also possible that they keep their focus slightly soft to minimize dust BB> spots. An old pro lab I used to use did that. BB> Butch
