Re: HP800 designjet and colour management
Re: HP800 designjet and colour management
- Subject: Re: HP800 designjet and colour management
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:07:11 EST
In a message dated 10/30/03 9:15:59 PM, email@hidden writes:
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It would be great to even be able to use Photoshop and Indesign, but
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additionally - This is a firm of architects using it with an
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application called Vectorworks. I don't suppose it's too much to ask
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for reasonable colour since this seems to be an architecture industry
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standard CAD application and the HP800 an architecture industry
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standard plotter?
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VectorWorks isn't really a standard CAD application. Unlike AutoCAD, which
defines line weights with screen colors, and uses a black background on screen
and a white one when printing, VectorWorks is WISIWYG, was born on the Mac, and
is very color oriented. For VectorWorks shaded color renderings its best to
rasterize them to a bitmapped format, and open that file in Photoshop to have
the best color control on screen and in print. For CAD direct printing, colors
are a bit less critical... VectorWorks deserves a nice Epson inkjet, butI
printed architectural plans and renderings from it to the HP2500CP for quite a
while. The real question with CAD output is what format to use. PostScript
requires a RIP or PostScript printer, HPGL2 is pretty primative, and RTL is slow,
since everything is bitmapped instead of vector.
C. David Tobie
C. David Tobie
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