I recently acquired a Durst Laborator 1200 and just had the chance to set it up in my darkroom and check the alignment with a Versalab Parallel laser alignment tool. Unfortunately, both the lens and negative stages appear out of alignment. In both cases, the x-axis is centered, but the y-axis is not. On the lens stage, the dot appears below the zero point of the y-axis. However, on the negative stage it appears above the zero point of the y-axis.
Does anyone have advice on aligning this enlarger, specifically the y-axis (pitch)? The L1200 has no obvious way to manipulate the alignment of the y-axis, besides maybe adding shims between the baseboard and the base of the column. I’ve searched through old discussions here and on other forums, but no luck so far finding useful information. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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