Digital BW, The Print

On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Clayton Jones wrote:

> Interesting interview with the HP product managers of these new  
> printers.
>
> https://www.luminous-landscape.com/photokina/index.shtml




Interesting.  The inclusion of the spectro took me by surprise-  
certainly a nice surprise for someone not already invested in  
profiling gear, but even for us already owning such gear, the ease  
factor of profiling would be attractive, not to mention that maybe a  
dedicated system like that might work better than a generic one?  
especially considering the gloss differential and until third party  
twelve ink systems become available- if anyone even bothers working  
on them.  It's hard to imagine some small third party ink company  
going after HP on that score, or me taking a chance on some non-OEM  
inks for a printer like this (especially after all my problems with  
Lyson ink in a 7600), but maybe someone will.  As the rep suggested,  
though, how much better could gamut get?  14 inks?  16?  When  
original Generations in an 1160 looked good to me?  Hard to imagine  
that I'd make a print with this HP printer and think yeah, looks ok,  
but I could use more gamut...
this assumes that all other things are equal, of course:  that the  
spectro and profiling part works well, and that there is no problem  
with the inks in terms of the standard problems we all know about.   
Have the price points of these printers been announced?  How about  
the Epson 12 ink printers mentioned- if they've been announced, I  
missed it.

James

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