Digital BW, The Print

I spoke with an HP rep that claimed he was on the GMB integration team.  He
was very knowledgeable in any case.
I asked him, “what if we want to use PM Pro”.  The response, summarized, was
“you really want to wait till measuretool can create the hexagonal patches,
and we are working towards that”.  There were other people waiting for his
attention so I did not press the issue; my take-away was that you could not
feed a traditional target into the Z3100 and generate a measurement file for
PM Pro.  Someday I would like to confirm that.  You could, of course, print
and measure a target using another device, but “why would you want to”, was
the theme.  Bill Atkinson creates his targets by driving photoshop with
AppleScript; I suppose that approach could be used to create the hexagonal
patch target.
I asked why the patches were so large and he deftly changed the subject so
smoothly that I forgot to ask again; smart guy.
They stressed the value of the printer profiles being contained on the drive
inside the printer, and that does make good sense.  I got the impression
that once they get a number of these printers out and working as intended,
they are willing to devote time to providing additional CM options that
utilize the onboard spectro, for those users wishing to do that.  If the
printer generated measurement files are spectral, as opposed to LAB, that
would be nice for the interim.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of john dean
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:19 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] K7 Split Tones

Wasn't trying to be ironic there. I will be using PM Pro lot within my
studio for everything, is what I ment, because it does so many things.
It is possible I could use the HP internal profile creation when that
machine is added, that remains to be seen, but I have other color
printers to profile, black and white patches to be read, monitors to
profile, etc, etc,

john


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