Hi Michel, I would suggest that you can only answer the question about a RIP once you have tried either Richard's profile or a custom profile. When I first got my 130, it had a nasty colour cast with the stock profiles, but a custom profile soon sorted that out. I'm no expert on this, but I think a decent (custom) colour profile will actually fix the magenta/green problem you have - it will lay down different amounts of ink at different points on the greyscale to compensate for the problem you describe.
I would recommend you try Richard Southworth's profile first though, if you haven't already. In my case, Richard's profile was much better than the stock profile, but not quite as good as the custom profile - so my particular printer is probably a bit away from the norm for a 130. I wouldn't recommend hacking profiles unless you have a lot of time on your hands, and a very good "eye". Tried it once, didn't like it. Colorvision (Pantone) PrintFIX comes with software (DoctorPRO) ( http://www.colorvision.com/downloads/manuals/drpro_uguide.pdf) that lets you do this, but it's a bit too much like levelling up table legs for my liking - you end up cutting off too much in an effort to get it to balance. I think the earlier message in this thread about "hacked" profiles relates to some that appeared on HP's website a while back. F On 5/8/07, mditlove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you for the advice, but would a RIP solve the issue of printing magenta and green, complimentary colors, on the same greyscale? Not to mention that I can't afford another $895.00 for a RIP when I was assured by HP that this machine would do what I asked for, black and white prints, buying this thing was stretching my budget to start with. "Hacking" profiles has been mentioned, how and where do I do that? Merci encore une foi, Michel
