Re: New Printer
Re: New Printer
- Subject: Re: New Printer
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:39:01 +0100
My short piece is obviously a polemic article. An entertainment.
Yes, I have seen samples from these printers. At Photokina. The most
diplomatic thing I can say is that they did not strike me as in any
substantial way better than existing products from the competition.
Now this is just a matter of opinion of course, with my own set of
eyeballs. Also, I am sure there has been progress since. But the
competition has also improved as Andrew and others have indicated.
Is the HP print quality *alone* good enough to justify rave reviews
and better than the competition ? I really don't think so.
Is the usability of these printers better than that of the competition
? Yes, I really think it is substantially better. They are very
carefully designed.
Should potential buyers take a hard look at print quality before they
buy ? An interesting question. Let's see:
- The repro crowd don't really care about quality, they care about
running costs, including setup, operator training, downtime, and
messes and delays caused by untrained operators. And sometimes they
care about trade (spot) colors. The HP spectro frees them from being
captive to a given media supplier who might have taken care of the
profiling for them, enables frequent media changes, and thereby opens
the door to *substantially* lower running costs.
- The fine art and photo crowd do care about print quality, but with
the present state of color management -expensive, complex- they are
probably not in a position to get good color from those strange
expensive media which they love. Readers of this list excepted,
obviously. So if they get a certain degree of quality, guaranteed, by
just pushing a buttion, shouldn't they be happy already ?
So, HP has made a product that gives users a *certain degree* of
quality, automagically. Every user gets decent color, whatever paper
he happens to insert. My compliments go to them.
Edmund
On 2/21/07, gariba <email@hidden> wrote:
Edmund, quoted from your website:
"excuse me, when the product hits the market, usability wins over quality
every time."
for all I've been reading in this and other forums, it seems that HP new
series have very good print quality, and usability...
have you tested one of the Z2100 or Z3100 yourself?
or at least have you seen some print samples from this two printer series?
On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:18 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
My latest entertainment on the Z-series topic has been posted on my blog
http://photofeedback.blogspot.com/
Edmund
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Atenciosamente,
Jorge "gariba" Batista.
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