Welcome to the group and congratulations on your DnJ130. It's a lovely machine and does print very very nice. HP has the medias you mention and special ones even for Proofing. You just have to use the right profiles and workflow to get the right colors. Which applications would you be using in general?
WOW...my mom was a hairdresser, so I'll go see if she still has some old hairspray somewhere. I'll give it a try and see if it works. It might be a bit sticky, but we'll see. Might be better than a 30 EUR can of 750ml. If a head goes bad, you won't really have to calibrate all the profiles for all the medias. You would just need to do a head alignment. Recalibrating profiles, you would do, say once or twice a month, depending on how picky you are about your color accuracy and how much the environmetal changes are. A printhead does spit out the info it gets, but since they are industrially designed objects, one could say that there might be a slight change in the ink composition or so, but it is very slight. So I wouldn't worry about that too much. The EFI RIP is a good CMYK RIP. But PosterJet is also very good. The reason I like PosterJet is that it's easy to use and very fast. Your print starts coming out in 7 or 8 sec. And it's RGB and CMYK workflow is very good. Regarding the fileformats it can take, it can read AND process more than 200 formats, so in that area, you should be safe. Have a look here for a list of Basic funcionality, http://www.posterjet.com/produkte/vollefunktion.php The reason for getting a RIP and not using the windows driver, is that the RIP would do a better job with color management and can take an input of RGB and/or CMYK, whereas the driver has an input of RGB only. Enjoy the installation Cheers ----- Original Message ---- From: unlisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:21:08 AM Subject: [HPDesignJet_Printers] New Owner....HP 130 Hi Folks, I am not so sure if I did the right thing or not at a month away from 2007 with all the new technology in the pipeline. I just purchased a DJ 130 I did this because I have heard the quality of the prints are very , very nice. And it has been compared to the 4800 or 7800 for the size. I have often printed from the 7800, and I really love the solid accuracy in color results. The Luster paper has been a nice semi gloss finish I like. In fact I was very close to getting the 3800 or 4800 instead of the 130. The fact that the HP has few clogged head issues, and if need be a head can be replaced. I thought I was in the right direction with the HP. I have owned all Epson til now. But the reason I didn't is because I do 95-98% color prints. And usually they are for proofs of prepress work. they are usually 13x19. So I figure for half the price of the 4800, I could have 24 inch prints to look at and offer prints of to customers of some images. I don't think I will be loading any canvas in it. Most likely Satin or Semi gloss, and occasianlly some semi matte if HP has. I would rather stay with long lasting inks for larger prints, and I really don't mind spraying them down with a Fixative to lock in the colors. some kind of matte spray fix. Often in the fine arts field we used to use plain old HAIRSPRAY for holding charcoal to the paper, and it worked well. I dont think that would work so well here...hehe. But I am glad to join this group, in hopes of some guidence as to what to avoid, and what to really try to enjoy my new printer for a long trouble free life. One thing that came to mind is...since I would be using it mainly for proofing...If a head does go bad, would that mean I have to recalibrate all my profiles for all papers? I ask this since someone mentioned it. But I couldnt understand why a print head would have any influence as to color and software info being fed to the print head. I would think a print head just spits out the info it has been configured to output. Any welcoming thoughts and info for me would be very welcome, and hope I made the right choice by purchasing this printer, as it is the largest some of money I have put into a computer peripheral/Printer. Also, for CMYK, do you guys recommend a RIP?...as someone mentioned a good profile is all you need and no RIP required. I checked out PosterJet Photo Ed. and at $600, sounds like the entry level that only prints TIF and JPG, not PSD orPDF. I install my printer tomorrow! Any tips and Ideas? much appreciated! Cheers! 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