TroubleshootingDiagnosticsTroubleshooting
Dmax Too High or Too Low
When the black areas of a print — the frame around a clinical image, or the 0% field of a LinCheck test image — come out too light or too dark, work the three-stage calibration escalation below before you consider swapping film stock.
Applies to
DryStar 5300 (Type 5365/100)
Personnel
1 technician · Service-level technician — runs film/CDM calibration from the key-operator or service menu per chapter 3.6, prints and reads LinCheck.tif test images, and takes external densitometer readings; no disassembly required for this fault tree itself (derived — source does not assign a formal skill-level label to this section).
Steps
0 steps
Source
DD+DIS346.05E — Drystar 5300 Repair and Service, Troubleshooting, Chapter 3.3 (item 11.1.2), p.174-176, Edition 1 Rev.7
Full step-by-step for Dmax Too High or Too Low
All 0 steps are documented in the FSELIB DryStar 5300 service manual — re-authored, web-first, with the real figures from the source.
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View all DryStar 5300 guidesSource: DD+DIS346.05E — Drystar 5300 Repair and Service, Troubleshooting, Chapter 3.3 (item 11.1.2), p.174-176, Edition 1 Rev.7. Preview re-authored by FSELIB — the full procedure with figures and steps is in the paid service manual.