Re: CMYKplus and other HP info
Re: CMYKplus and other HP info
- Subject: Re: CMYKplus and other HP info
- From: neil_snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:57:14 +0200
on 16/09/05 17:29, Roberto Michelena wrote :
> HP's website (and the web in general) is so lacking on information
> about their products...
Sometimes lacking, sometimes just really misplaced on their sites.
They actually have a ton of useful pages that are rarely viewed due to the
lack of logic in research refs and links.
> There are two things I haven't been able to find enough info about:
>
> 1) HP postscript RIP for DesignJet 30 and 130 : this products are very
> inexpensive, under $200 for the HP 30, and incorporate Adobe
> Postscript 3 and support for PDF 1.4 ; that is as much as I've been
> able to find out!! HP's product page on this is a blank slate :(
A very simple but excellent Scanvec Amiable rip for printing from page
layout or vector programs. Same excellent screening so output is as smooth
as the driver rgb.
The rip has drag and drop PDF with very nice rastering of the pages.
The rip is no longer in development with HP so on the CMYK side there are a
few entry level being EFI designer edition, high end there is GMG and
ColorProof /Premium , and a friend says the Caldera is working on it too.
On the photographic side ImagePrint is doing nice things.
I still use the HP rip though as for an almost feature less rip it is
extremely efficient and easy to send print jobs to.
> 2) CMYKplus: there are lots of mentions of it, but not a single
> document describing it. As far as I remember when it was in
> development I saw something at Drupa 2004 and it was just a synthethic
> CMYK profile with a very wide gamut, designed to print pleasing and
> saturated color from CMYK files, but not intending to simulate
> anything (not proofing).
Simply takes the separations that were intended for a certain condtion and
expands the gamut along a fairly straight hue angle towards the linearised
but maximum gamut of the media profile to make a pretty presentation print
usable for display or other viewing that normally would have been better if
the original was left in large (er) gamut rgb. Quite useful for on demand
service providers for posters or presentation prints where the source files
are from unknown or limited gamut spaces.
In theory it is a HP technology that was/is applied in EFI rips. I believe
the recent EFI's only have it in the HP EFI rip , not in the full versions.
That will have to be seen with EFI and HP.
>
> anyone has any more info? the Rip sounds specially attractive, but I
> wonder if anyone can share experiences...
Using it since 2001 where it was a pain in OS9 but now on OSX it is great,
never a problem. On Windows there is a strange way of setting custom media
sizes but that's well known at HP.
--
Neil Snape photographer Paris France email@hidden
http://www.neilsnape.com
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