RE: Recommendations for Spectro and Profile - Built In Spectro Printers
RE: Recommendations for Spectro and Profile - Built In Spectro Printers
- Subject: RE: Recommendations for Spectro and Profile - Built In Spectro Printers
- From: "Mike Eddington" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:48:43 -0400
- Thread-topic: Recommendations for Spectro and Profile - Built In Spectro Printers
>>Bill said in no uncertain terms (and he was referring to the iSis) USE
UV
>>cut, you'll get better gray balance. I just finished building a lot of
>>profiles for the new Epson Exhibition Fiber paper for a lot of
printers
>>and
>>the results are fantastic!
Good to know.
> I tell them to try the PRO profiles (built
>>in
>>the US) from Epson before they go the custom route.
Yes, but these are RGB profiles correct? So for those using a pro-level
Rip, you'd still need to still generate custom CMYK profile.
>>Then there's the question of a Spectrophotometer built into a printer.
Now
>>I
>>suspect its useful if you're using a lot of papers and don't have good
>>profiles supplied to you OR (and I don't know if this is true for
other
>>manufacturers), you're process control isn't all that hot. One thing
is
>>sure, building a Spectrophotometer into a printer has to add to the
cost!
My attraction to the built in spectro is purely for a remote printing
environment, so printer calibration, profile updating, and proof
verification can be performed automatically with little intervention
from the client site. The HP Z-series printers (with the right Rip) can
offer all that, but a couple things are still unknown to me. How much
more often is calibration required as compared to say, an Epson
4000,4800 or later model. And if the test chart size is a larger format
than one formatted for say the Isis, would the increased paper and ink
costs, coupled with more frequent calibrations negate the cost savings
of performing these features offline?
Anyone with an HP Z-series printer care to comment on frequency of
calibration/consumables costs?
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Michael Eddington | North American Color, Inc.
QA Manager | Gracol G7 Certified Expert
5960 S. Sprinkle Road | Portage, MI 49002
P. (269) 323-0552 | F. (269) 323-0190
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