HP 5500 UV papers
HP 5500 UV papers
- Subject: HP 5500 UV papers
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:47:45 +0200
I have searched my own archive of this list, but found no relevant
hints, although the subject has been touched upon around March of this
year. So, with your kind permission:
Recently, I have become the reluctant "owner" of three HP 5500s with UV
inksets. (I am partially to blame, because I *assumed* this would work -
we have lots of experience with the dye ink version, Wilhelm says the
sun shines out of its nether regions, etc.)
OK, so I have adopted the blame for a dreadful decision with respect to
Fine Arts applications. (You cannot even feed any decent watercolor or
canvas media through the device.) We don't really need it for proofing
(although it would be nice to have a proof with colors that last), since
we can make do with the dye stuff. But we need production stuff that
will be sitting out in the sun: bus stop material and the like. HP 5500
sounded like a reasonable combination of speed and resolution.
After two or three weeks, I have yet to find a *single* paper that will
absorb reasonable amounts of ink. I profile with ProfileMaker
Professional 4.1.5, but any other up-market package like it will also
want to print patches that reach 400% ink coverage, before you set your
own ink limits in the actual profile. I found the materials I have tried
(about twenty) fall into three categories:
1. You can print all right, without the ink lakes draining into the
neighboring patches. Thus I can profile beautifully once the lakes dry
out. But the ink will "move" even a day later, by just touching it.
2. The ink will absorb and eventualy (or even immediately) dry, but
before that, it covers all available paper and neighboring real-estate.
3. The ink will cover the neighborhood *and* not dry.
Has *anybody* found a paper this bitch will print on well enough to be
able to profile it?
Incidentally, I am using an external RIP (Wasatch), and since the HP
documentation has zero specification on what their media "profiles" (on
the front panel) do, I just choose a description of what the material
looks like (e.g. "Others - Photo 1).
Yours desperately,
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Rudy Vonk
Oviedo, Spain
<email@hidden>
+34 607 354100
You can't always want what you get.
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