Re: HP20PS and Pantone
Re: HP20PS and Pantone
- Subject: Re: HP20PS and Pantone
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:39:38 +0100
email@hidden wrote:
Print quality and image color matching
appear to be excellent.
The point with these new machines is that the sensors are
individually different as all sensors are, but the sensors are
individually characterized so that multiple sensors return identical
readings for tight consistency between printers. The DesignJet
pipeline is the still same with ink limiting prior to profiling, so
the profile handles the color and the black generation but not the
ink limiting. Just set the profile builder to 400% ink.
It used to be that Iris1 and Iris2 and Iris3 printed alike with
ColorZone in remote proofing scenarios. This is just too expensive
and too complex for virtual color networks to take off in earnest
with high-end photographers and design studios taking over document
PDF generation. What is needed is simple, affordable and non-manual
printer calibration that works. That and a broader use of
spectrophotometers for profiling as much as for process control will
grow the necessary pressure from the desktop for the printing side to
implement press control systems. This is especially needed in
sheetfed offset where jobs are very varied and where for the same
reason I guess the incentive for buying into press control and color
management are lower than in the far fewer industrial gravure
printing houses.