Digital BW, The Print

Yes, HP isn't perfect. 

To confirm that, visit 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/?yguid=96117688

HP Designjet users seem generally to agree that the auto-profiling
technology isn't 100% (they don't seem to worry about it) and there's
grumbling (not much) about paper options. And other problems
(vulnurability to moisture).  But they love their printers, don't seem
to be struggling, and are OBVIOUSLY not as strangled by jargon as
Epson users. Hmmm. 

Reminds me of Mac 7 Vs DOS in ancient times... Epson and HP will both
make huge advances in the near future...some folks will inevitably
stick with DOS and Macbeth.

  



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> 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
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> Djon <westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
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> 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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