Re: HP's New Printers
Re: HP's New Printers
- Subject: Re: HP's New Printers
- From: neil_snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:24:15 +0100
- Thread-topic: HP's New Printers
on 18/01/07 17:38, Armand Rosenberg wrote :
> For the "typical" photographer (whatever that means) who makes his
> own prints, how does the built-in profiling solution on the new HP's
> compare to making custom profiles using Eye-One Match with Eye-One
> Pro spectro? Are the results (print quality) comparable?
>
> For my own purposes, I'm not so much interested in the comparison to
> higher-end profiling packages, for obvious reasons.
>
> BTW, do the gloss optimizer settings affect the profile, ie does one
> need a different profile for each setting (on a given paper)??
The profiles are right for an average user expectation. It depends on the
chart printed if your going to seek more accurate or pleasing profiles from
charts that have more patches.
In the end I think it's more about the smarts that go into the profiling
application rather than the sheer volume of patch samples and their
resolution.
The GE definitely does change the over all appearance and when making the
profile should be applied or not to reflect the changes . The onboard
profiler makes assumptions about the GE and does save an assumed GE
condition as well. I find it's best just to make a measured profile for both
GE on and off rather than use the assumed profiles.
Since the APS is a PMP lite sort of version and the internal profiler a
quite easy to use quicker version with less gamut optimisation going on I
would highly recommend the APS for it's better chart and profiler
combination. Yet the APS is still in works, and any comparison at this point
will change. They are tweaking it to make it perform with the onboard
spectro which is making it a different package than the Gretag/Xrite
solutions off the shelf. A lot of the math remains close to the same for
gamut mapping but the editor and other parts are unique to HP.
Since using APS for Photo media I no longer make i1 and PMP profiles other
than for comparisons and matte media.
Yesterday I printed 100' and the screen to print match was without fail on
all images. The B&W mixed in with colour images shows us new tricks in using
a separation of channels where if the r=g=b is equal the prints are printed
in grey inks only. This is a huge advantage when batching prints.
Neil Snape email@hidden http://www.neilsnape.com
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