A printing method for printing a pixel at a gray level x on paper by a printer. Initially, individual stations attempt to affiliate at a lower power level with an existing cluster gateway and, if that attempt is unsuccessful, the station switches to a higher power level and commences operation as a cluster gateway. The profiler features fast speed, digital controls, low polarization sensitivity, and high measurement repeatability. The number of computer instructions needed to resolve the memory address for a particular row is fixed. The balances for each of the three categories are calculated for each month.