1. A method of detecting print head roll in an ink jet printing system including one or more print heads, the method comprising: forming a test pattern on an image receiving surface using each nozzle from two different rows of nozzles from a single printhead to form a plurality of marks arrayed across the image receiving surface in a single row extending in a cross-process direction across the image receiving surface, each mark in the plurality of marks being formed by a different nozzle of the single print head and each mark in a pair of adjacent marks in the single row being formed by different nozzles in different rows of the single printhead; detecting the cross-process direction positions of each mark in the plurality of marks; and correlating the detected cross-process direction positions to a print head roll value for the print head.