Re: HP DesignJet ColorPro GA
Re: HP DesignJet ColorPro GA
- Subject: Re: HP DesignJet ColorPro GA
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:35:38 +0200
Darrian Young <email@hidden> wrote:
I would wait until September before making a decision. HP has a nice new
machine just about ready. Not to say that the ColorPro is not a good
machine - it is (or was) but the software isn't and wasn't.
You are right, but again the ordinary user does not know whether the
printer, the RIP, the application software or the ICC profiles are to
blame, if the presentation print or proof print look lost in the
conversion -:).
For instance, take ICC profiles where Black Point Compensation is not
handled equally well. If you create a high quality profile with PM
Pro 315 for COMMSP4 or COMMSP9 using the FOGRA data and compare the
results for 'EuroScale Uncoated v2' with BPC off in all cases, and
given that the measurement data are the same, you will get bitten
with the Adobe profile (worse still with v1) and only lightly slapped
on the wrist with PMPro. BPC is not equally implemented across
applications, so setting it up wrong is very likely. And application
software still by and large sets up the other transforms wrong in any
case ...