Re: laser printer question
Re: laser printer question
- Subject: Re: laser printer question
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:25:39 +0100
Am 02.03.2005 um 15:57 schrieb David Remington:
We want good, though it does not have to be perfect, color, ease of
use and set-up, dependable service, network access. I've seen the
Xerox 7750GX recommended. Our IT department does not like Xerox and
thinks we should get a HP 9500. Any comments on the two candidates?
I have no experience with Xerox, but I had and continue to have issues
with the HP ColorSync functionality (I use the 5500, but with regard to
my ColorSync experiences, this shouldn't matter). Note that *apart*
from the ColorSync issues I'm extremely satisfied with the HP.
For quite some time, HP provided PPDs for their color laser printers
that were not compatible with ColorSync (at least in Panther). They
have finally fixed this just a few weeks ago, so this should not be a
problem anymore. *But* at least for my 5500, now that ColorSync finally
works, the color output is even worse than it was before.
The new PPDs from HP use CMYK as the default color space; but at least
the factory ICC profile they provide produces colors that are much too
dark.
They also provide an RGB profile for printing to an RGB color space,
but I have yet to find a way to use RGB instead of CMYK when printing
(see
http://lists.apple.com/archives/colorsync-users/2005/Mar/
msg00034.html).
If you switch off ColorSync in the Print panel ("In Printer" instead of
"Standard"), then the color output is much better, but then of course
you can't optimize it using a customized ICC profile.
Bye
Uli
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