Digital BW, The Print

As for HP's auto profiling:  I have an HP 10PS that has some 'auto profiling' in it.  It works fine for HP media, but for other media I've tried it's useless.  If HP does something with the 'auto' profiling, it will probably go along with their basic approach of handling HP products only.  But, new management at HP, so maybe not.
 
Tom Baker

Djon <westsidemaurice@...m> wrote:


Steve Kale wrote:
> You'll have to hope that all that auto profiling will accommodate
B&W well -
> general ICC profiling doesn't today

We don't have to "hope." It'll be a done deal next year. With HP's
auto-profiling, ICC profiling by users is already becoming as
secondary to digital color as "color analyzers" always were to
photochemical color printing. 

and that's why many people come to this
> forum...remember those magenta casts?

Magenta (and cyan) casts are primarily the result of inadequate
personal visual skills and jargon-ridden technical "explanations" of
relatively simple applications and processes (bad writing). 

Color skills are acquired by practice with elementary-school-level
knowledge of color theory, not by purchase and mastery of systems that
will shortly be completely obsolete. 

That way I can put the whole thing off and not get
> > an aneurysm trying to figure it out!

That seems exactly right for many printers. 








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