Re: HP designjet 10ps
Re: HP designjet 10ps
- Subject: Re: HP designjet 10ps
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:23:49 -0500
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As you know I'm just starting out testing the 10S as many others are.
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Testing on PC is a big step as I am so at ease in the Mac platform but PC
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being necessary for most ripping apps. Networking between OsX, Os9, and all
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flavours of Windows also took some time. Luckily I didn't have to include
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Solaris, Linux, Netware etc as there certainly was enough to look at from
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the start. The advantage of the HP10/20/50 is the built in colorimeter.
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Using the onboard rip will auto-calibrate many a paper stock and you can do
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that remotely. Best doesn't yet have an incarnation of this hence, profiling
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and linearisation is also a custom on site thing. The results should be
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better as it's made by your careful adjustment. As far as calibration goes
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there is too much redundancy in all the Best rips, nothing is clear. There's
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a lot of possibilities and constant work done on improving the abilities of
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the line. In the end I actually prefer the visual compare , print and make a
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linearisation in InkAssistant on the Mac. It's not so linear then but raw
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output looks like a press sheet. Then profile and the profile has less work
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to do. Best Designer Edition is fine for proofing images under this set up
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but Colorproof is better suited to proofing finished pages for production.
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As far as I can see, the HP10S has a big fault in their choice of magenta.
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It's so blue. I'm not convinced that this is something that you can correct
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with profiles. The yellow is nicer than Epsons though, and the cyan is a
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little green but correctable. To make this printer to proof an Approval will
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be a challenge!
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I do think however , when HP release the OSX drivers and Remote proofing
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it'll be a good inexpensive choice for many designers proofing their layouts
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and sending them remotely to a prepress house. Terms of print speed, it's
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very quick and the output is very good. The print quality is photographic
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and would even be suitable eventually for ScreenProof which could complement
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an Approval in a screened film simili.
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Neil Snape email@hidden http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
I have just installed and started to use a 20PS at a client and, right now,
as you know, the HP RIP that comes with this baby does not run under OSX. So
we booted under 9 in order to print from Photoshop. We have not tried this
RIP on Windows yet -- still have to figure out how to share it from the PC
so that the Mac sees it -- but, on the Mac, on a 20 meg CMYK image, ripping
at 1200x600 was kind of slow, even on a G4/800. Impossible to work while
it's printing.
Which RIP are you using?
Regards,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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