[Leica] HP7960 now the HP8450

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Bob, with this printer I just haven't had to fool around with the PS
settings. I use the Adobe RGB profile, and the rest is set in the
printer dialogue. I tell the printer I want grayscale, and I then either
set it for Best, or for it's highest quality. Frankly it's hard, if not
close to impossible, to see the difference between Best and the highest
quality, but for client prints I set the highest quality.

Again, this printer offers a ludicrously simple way to get terrific
black and white prints.
Color may require more fiddling, as it does with any printing system,
but the fiddling is done with the image on screen in Photoshop,
adjusting color, etc. Once the print processes starts, it's pretty much
WYSIWYG, unless your monitor needs calibrating - which mine undoubtedly
does - in which case you either calibrate it properly, or quickly learn
the difference between what the screen shows and what the printer
produces, and then you just adjust the on-screen image accordingly.

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Will von Dauster
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 12:18 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] HP7960 now the HP8450 


Hi Bob,

On Dec 4, 2004, at 7:26 AM, Bob Palmieri wrote:
>
> By the way BD (and anyone else who feels good about their output with
> this printer)- could you share with the group the settings you're 
> using for "color" management in Photoshop (I'm assuming you're using 
> Photoshop and we all know about assumptions...) and the print driver 
> (mac or pc) to get these stellar results in B&W?
>
> Also, if you've had good luck on the color side I'd be interested in
> those settings as well.

I use a Mac (four of them, actually), and am also a firm believer in 
Ted's KISS principle. I've had to dink with color management with other 
printers I've used, Epson and Canon, but with the 7960 I've left the 
color management to the default, ie automatic, settings beyond 
selecting the paper type. For black and white prints, which are about 
50% of my personal stuff, I manually select the paper type (premium 
plus glossy), let it use "best" for the quality, and select "greyscale" 
for the color, all in the print dialog box. The prints are better than 
any inkjet I've ever seen, and better than most of the BW I used to be 
able to print when I had a darkroom set up.

I've also noticed the swelling of the paper, but this settles down a 
lot as the print fully dries.

Will von Dauster

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