Recent messages have panned the stock profiles for the DJ 130, and I thought I should add my 2 cents' worth.
My computer, with a Viewsonic CRT monitor runa a DJ 130, an Epson 2200, an Epson R800, and a Magicolor 2450 laser. Each prints using the respective company-supplied profiles, and I have been generally quite happy with each. The 2200, in particular, has proved to supply WYSIWYG prints each time; the 3 others are not quite as good, but generally very close. Yesterday I was printing a customer-supplied file on the 2200, with Premium Semi-gloss, which included 6 faces ranging in color from red/magenta to quite yellow, together with objects supplying a rather full range of very saturated colors. Out of curiosity, I printed the same image on the 130 using Premium Plus satin. The result was extremely close to the Epson print, except that the yellow face was noticebly more saturated on the HP print. The difference was apparent in viewing the two prints together; I may not have been unhappy with the HP print unless I had been specifically looking for a color-match on that face. In the 2 years I've owned it, I've never characterized the HP's print- to-monitor matching as less than good, and my eye for color is probably far more experienced than most as I own a photo lab. I'm wondering if each of my printers is a particularly good sample of its model, or if perhaps operator error might be accounting for a few of the complaints about the manufacturer supplied profiles. Also, there are apparently more than a few people who want to believe that spending more money for something insures a better result and/or that money already spent was somehow justified. In any case, I really want to suggest to newer readers in this space that money and effort is much better spent first in profiling one's monitor, and that doing so may well eliminate any dissatisfaction with the the free printer profiles. eric perkins ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/vIg0lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
