Re: More Feedback on HP 10ps Please
Re: More Feedback on HP 10ps Please
- Subject: Re: More Feedback on HP 10ps Please
- From: Glenn Kowalski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:32:32 -0500
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 10:59:42 +0100
From: Johan Lammens <email@hidden>
If anyone has any more feedback on the HP 10ps I'd love to hear it,
especially the Postscript RIP. I have a client that is looking to
replace their Epson 3000 with one. Dan Reid gave some useful feedback
printing from Photoshop. I'd like to hear how this thing does ripping
Quark files. A decent tabloid sized color printer with a RIP that
allows input and output icc profiles sounds too good to be true for
under $1000.
Well, its true (if I can offer some feedforward). It will print
Quark PS files just
like anything else, but the issue with Quark is usually color
management. If you use
all default settings with CM off, i.e. are targetting basically SWOP
presses, then
just select the SWOP input profile in the rip with RC or AC intent
and you'll be
fine. For anything more complex than that I'd recommend a third
party CM extension
like PraxiSoft's CompassPro XT; note that the Lite version is
included free with
MacOS in the ColorSync CS Extras. All this is just my personal
opinion, naturally.
Johan
Johan thank you. As long as the RIP software provided with the 10ps
will manage color for all data including raster and vector eps files,
tiffs, jpegs, Quark native colors, etc, then I would consider it
fairly robust for the price even if it is slow. Is this the case? And
yes the Quark CMS would be turned off--at least for the printing
aspect of it. I'm also assuming that the HP RIP doesn't read embedded
color profiles, which is ok as long as the user stays within a
consistent workflow, assuming the same input and output profiles.
One more key question: Is it possible to network the RIP for the
10ps? Does it broadcast itself on the network as an Appletalk
printer? If not, can it be networked by using file sharing to
transfer a postscript file or some other work around? Assuming an all
Mac environment.
--
Glenn Kowalski
Macintosh Systems Consultant
Studio 405, Inc.
http://www.studio405.com