Recently a fellow Nikon photog. asked some questions about my DJ-130 experiences. The response, I realized, is a pretty good quick summary of my 10 months running this fine machine. Perhaps useful to others. So here it is:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > From your experiences with a few of these > machines, what SURPRISES am I likely to have? In my experience: premature printhead failures. I keep a full set of replacement printheads on hand. There's been a recent thread on HPDesignJet_Printers at Yahoo groups about air in the feed lines being a possible cause of this. > What's the deal with the "paper dent" issue that I > have seen cropping up on the forum? I do all my paper feeding manually from the front. The only paper marking problem I have had is with one of my 3 or 4 machines -- I forget exactly, there was a period where they sent me replacements once every couple of weeks -- leaving pizza roller trails on the Premium Photo Satin that I run. > Any problems running canvas through the machine? I've only run Premium Photo Satin. > What other papers do you use? None. > Could you give me a very approx cost per square > foot for running canvas and Satin? Approx $1.25 to $2.25 per square foot on Photo Satin. Lower part of that range when printing on sheets cut from a roll, upper part when printing on HP packaged 18x24 sheets. > > Whats the max image printing size? I've printed 24" x 44" with no problem from Qimage. Haven't tried anything larger. > > What RIP do you use? None. I use Qimage to print. My master image is an Adobe Photoshop document in AdobeRGB color space. For printing, I make the relevant crop, convert to sRGB, and save that product as a level-12 (pixel-perfect) JPG. That's what Qimage uses. > Print heads seem to be an issue too. How many do > you get through?o I've gone thru 6 while printing approx. 2500 sq. ft. Adds under a dime per sq. ft. in cost. I can live with the issue. > > Any idea what maximum length USB cable can be used > between computer and HP? Dunno. I use a 10-footer with no problems. > > Hope you can find a minute to reply. Very grateful > for any assistance. Happy to help. Great printer, with quirks. Results are lovely. Customers very happy. -- stan
