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Eco Solvent or UV inks offer a completely different usage scenario. These are for displays, signage and definitely commercial use (= you'd sell the prints and produce lots). Neither would make any sense for printing only a few prints a day (half your ink costs would be just for cleaning cycles!)...

unless you print a lot the print head reliability and cost will annoy you and make this printer series highly inefficient (Info: 2000CP/2500CP/2800CP is the 36" model, 3000CP/3500CP/3800CP is the 54" model - differences: x000CP is the base model, x500CP has a built-in Adobe Level2 RIP chip and...

true - but in the upper section are areas that are out of gamut already to your CMYK space. So if you do some curve reductions to get the bright greens in you usually also affect the dark greens and shrink them to where you actually really see the lack or rather loss of gamut. Which is exactly...

wrong color space / tool for the job? wrong color space / tool for the job? the beauty of color management: once you chop space off, you can't bring it back. Simply converting EVERYTHING first to CMYK (often using such silly defaults as AdobeRGB to US Web Coated v2) and only THEN starting...

large retouching dept - controlling color - late binding large retouching dept - controlling color - late binding the above discussion is a permanently occuring one, unfortunately mainly people who don't REALLY require the discussion participate in it (I talk about those that are pretty...

digital vs analog digital vs analog Stephen Marsh said, ... the wider the gamut of the RGB space, the more so one may need perceptual over relative colorimetric (presuming that the image actually uses the wider gamut). Well, anyone really paying attention to that very last part in brackets...

I think I was still scribbling my notes while you did your part of the presentation. :rolleyes: Right as I write this I am setting up a printer to ISO print standards - ColorServer and its sibling InkOptimizer (GCR tool) part of the package. And just as in your presentation then it is all about...

Juergen Roesch is now nicknamed "The Juergenator" and publishes a monthly column in the trueColors magazine published by GMG in the UK for their domestic customers (international customers can download it from trueColors: GMGColor - no login required). There is even a Chinese version (available...

Hi Todd, correct - the x900 series is not replacing the x880 series, but an added product line above it. Think Mercedes E and S class (now I don't know which Epson would be comparable to the Maybach Exelero in my Avatar icon, but just as this is a one off car, I wouldn't be surprised to hear of...

Over here in the UK many dealers already have their demo units received and set up. Delivery seems to be imminent (yes - it's 2 months after you asked the question). As usual the first wave might already have orders just waiting for them. Also the major RIP vendors appear to have their release...

Hi Jon, many office level color laser printers support the use of ICC profiles. So often you do not need a special application which keeps your workflow slim and easy. Also the front end units for photo copier style color printers (e.g. a Fiery unit) support color managemen settings. If...

I played around with the GMG software on HP z6100, z3200, Epson 9800, 9880, 11880 and also the new 7900/9900 (no - the version I was able to play with isn't released yet and will be a few more weeks until the release version for the x900 is downloadable). First: all work very well. There's...

..also you need the DotProof module only once. It enables DotProof functionality immediately on all connected printers. Also you get plenty of features automatically where you might have to pay elsewhere extra

on Windows simply right-click the profile and select "Install Profile" and all applications have immediately access to it. (amazing that a PC is easier for installing profiles than a Mac)

one 'tool' to rule them all one 'tool' to rule them all as GMG has already been quoted and you started your research into that as well, you might want to look a bit deeper into it as you might otherwise miss that you could do pretty much most of what you intend with a single installation of 1...

most suppliers of proofing software (like CGS, EFI, GMG,...) offer newspaper proofing substrate. Those are very newspaper like papers with usually a slight inkjet coating, so the ink doesn't bleed too much. For the HP1050 series I've also come across separate roll holders, so you can directly...

My name is Juergen Roesch after computer science studies at a German University I somehow ended up via photography and computer graphics in the world of prepress. With this background the theories and practical uses of color management gripped me and soon I got offered a position at a digital...

sure - jardoman ;-) Will be at PIA/GATF color management conference in Phoenix - if you're there you can refresh your own memory of my face (otherwise you know how to contact me)

Hi Stephen, don't shake too much ;-) Actually there is so much ink in the pipes that you likely would not see an effect for another 5-10 yards of printing. It takes likely around 2 months for the pigments to "settle" to a level that it becomes measurable. In most cases that's still a way to go...

off topic: I wish Adobe would update their Distiller defaults from 300dpi to 350dpi as fewer and fewer printers are still doing 150lpi. Some even push to 200lpi and still complain when preflight shows any images higher than 300dpi ... All this scanner operator knowledge - where did it go?