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Are you asking rhetorically? They own Pantone.

Absolutely! Regardless of your digital process, improving your color management and color workflow will always increase your quality and decrease your waste and spoilage. Mike Adams Correct Color

Regardless of the device, the only purpose of input color settings is to attempt to get the color in your files from the incoming color space -- which is whatever space in which they were created -- to their destination color space -- which is the printer profile you're using. So, since all...

Well, the answer is that neither is 'right' and neither is 'wrong.' They're both just representations and if either one allows you to visualize what's actually happening, then it has worked for your needs. And what's actually happening is that in a given condition, and device that reproduces...

Actually and truthfully, mainly what you'll get from end users is, "I love mine!" It's a pretty good bet that they're not all that familiar with what else is out there, and the answer to your question in any event is that it depends entirely on what you want to do. There's no perfect machine...

Which is best would completely depend on just what you want "color management" to do. If you're looking for screen gamut, the MBP is probably a better bet. If you're looking to profile a printer and then print images to that profiled printer either from color managed applications directly...

Not to mention that it wasn't actually developed by EFI.

There really isn't all that much difference between Gracol 2006 and SWOP, truth be known. Lots of people push Gracol as some kind of Holy Grail, but the difference between it and SWOP is really only basically the difference between sheetfed and web printing. That's the reason you can often use...

Pat, Yes and no. The fact is that in large format digital of any kind -- UV, aqueous, latex, whatever -- there are no common white points or chroma values as there are in other segments of the industry. And profiles aren't made to conform to any standard, they're made -- if made correctly --...

Joe did indeed ask at Signs101. When he called one of the old-line posters there a Neanderthal, it kind of went downhill from there.

The entire issue you're having here is printer profiles. In all cases, printing dots are made by a RIP using information in a profile. So it'a a profile that tells the printer what dots to make, and thus, what to print. The question I'd ask is if you're planning on sending work that has to...

I know that's what many people in this industry think it means... But as pointed out above, that's actually exactly backwards.

Probably just being picky here, but... Metamerism is when it works. Metameric failure is when it doesn't.

arossetti Sorry to take so long answering, I just now happened to notice this. But in answer, I can't really say for sure, because I've never seen a 3100. From what I understand, HP sends factory people out to profile them with most of their installs, so I've never gotten a call to profile...

A little late here, but I'd add that for the most part, I don't much like the term 'GCR' when thinking in terms of profiling for large format inkjet. I much prefer to think of black generation strategy overall. And it's definitely true that overall black generation strategy is key in affecting...

Of the machines you've listed, for what you're trying to do, first and foremost forget the HP 360. It is not a fine-art quality machine. It also has some serious color consistency issues that HP has so far refused to even acknowledge, so who knows when they'll address fixing them. After that...

...and the answer, put simply, is an absolute and unqualified... It depends. It depends on the image; it depends on the media; it depends on the printer; and it depends on the printer profile. And it does help to think of this as gamut and not as dynamic range. The gamut of any color space is...

Mitch, That would depend entirely on what it is you want to do, and how much you've got to spend; but from pretty extensive experience with just about every printer/RIP combination out there, I'd lean sort of in the Seiko or Epson direction, depending on price and features, and just overall...

Mitch, I'll second what DYP said. Perceptual rendering intent is not intended for proofing use, ever. Two problems: First is that as defined by the ICC, perceptual rendering intent is supposed to move all colors, in or out of gamut, in order to make images more perceptually pleasing. Great to...

Mitch, Honestly, the RIP doesn't make just a whole lot of difference with the 300 series latex printers mainly because so many of the inking controls that are possible in a RIP on other printers have been taken away and the machine has been made into a very restrictive contone-only printer...