Re: HP20PS and Pantone
Re: HP20PS and Pantone
- Subject: Re: HP20PS and Pantone
- From: neilB <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:35:18 +0000
Daniel, thanks for the reply,
On 25/1/02 at 25/1/02, email@hidden (publix team) wrote:
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> may I ask if anyone has had good success printing Pantones with
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> the HP 20PS?
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Exactly .. the 20 PS is Pantone certified for 4 of its common
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materials. You see a noticable change when switching on or off
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pantone simulation.
a noticeable change to normal [photographic material] or just to the
Pantone areas? Photo work looks pretty much the same to me.
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The quality of the pantone matching is not really terrific although
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they have provided update files that I didn't test yet.
hmm, not really terrific sounds unpromising perhaps Johan Lammens
can comment on this?
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If you want to output separated postscript forget about the pantone
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matching as it will not work.
then it's not much use is is?
can we proof pantone from Illustrator reliably to the HP 20?
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The printer then assigns the print cartriges to the colors in the
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code. Say you have 6 Pantone plates .. the first 4 will output cmyk
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the next lightc the next lightm and then nothing goes. Strange to see
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a pantone orange printed in cyan :-)
hmm - sounds like a problem they need to fix?
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If you need such options you'd have to go for the bestcolor Rip or
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the designers edition which both support this printer.
yes, but at a considerable cost and it should not really be needed,
HP are claiming a lot for this printer and the more I read here the
less of it sounds accurate??.
Regards
NeilB
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