Re: HP 5500 UV papers
Re: HP 5500 UV papers
- Subject: Re: HP 5500 UV papers
- From: Charlie Rieger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:39:28 -0400
Rudy,
I have had great success using a variety of the magic inkjet medias
(formerly Rexam) with the 5500 running UV inks. For paper the DMPDQ2-L
prints and profiles very nicely, and is dry to the touch almost immediately,
also their studio canvas works well as does their adhesive backed vinyl.
For fine art usage, I have found the Hanemuhule Photo rag and William Turner
papers run great as well, both take a fairly heavy ink load without
bleeding.
I'm running the Onyx rip, and am able to linearize just fine by setting the
proper ink loads in the rip as my first step. It sounds like you need to
take a close look at the rip, and throttle back the amount of ink the rip is
laying down. In the Onyx rip, this is done independently of and before
setting the ink limit in the ICC Profile
As a test you may want to send a file directly to the 5500 through its web
interface, bypassing the external rip entirely.
Hope this helps,
Charlie Rieger
on 9/24/03 12:47 PM, Rudy Vonk at email@hidden wrote:
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I have searched my own archive of this list, but found no relevant
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hints, although the subject has been touched upon around March of this
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year. So, with your kind permission:
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Recently, I have become the reluctant "owner" of three HP 5500s with UV
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inksets. (I am partially to blame, because I *assumed* this would work -
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we have lots of experience with the dye ink version, Wilhelm says the
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sun shines out of its nether regions, etc.)
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OK, so I have adopted the blame for a dreadful decision with respect to
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Fine Arts applications. (You cannot even feed any decent watercolor or
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canvas media through the device.) We don't really need it for proofing
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(although it would be nice to have a proof with colors that last), since
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we can make do with the dye stuff. But we need production stuff that
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will be sitting out in the sun: bus stop material and the like. HP 5500
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sounded like a reasonable combination of speed and resolution.
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After two or three weeks, I have yet to find a *single* paper that will
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absorb reasonable amounts of ink. I profile with ProfileMaker
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Professional 4.1.5, but any other up-market package like it will also
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want to print patches that reach 400% ink coverage, before you set your
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own ink limits in the actual profile. I found the materials I have tried
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(about twenty) fall into three categories:
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1. You can print all right, without the ink lakes draining into the
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neighboring patches. Thus I can profile beautifully once the lakes dry
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out. But the ink will "move" even a day later, by just touching it.
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2. The ink will absorb and eventualy (or even immediately) dry, but
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before that, it covers all available paper and neighboring real-estate.
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3. The ink will cover the neighborhood *and* not dry.
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Has *anybody* found a paper this bitch will print on well enough to be
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able to profile it?
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Incidentally, I am using an external RIP (Wasatch), and since the HP
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documentation has zero specification on what their media "profiles" (on
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the front panel) do, I just choose a description of what the material
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looks like (e.g. "Others - Photo 1).
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Yours desperately,
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