HP Printer
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- zedvox
holy shit!
that printer looks awesome.
has anyone used it?
i've had bad experience with HP.sohmmmmmanyone entering the contest?
- nick0
yeah, it looks suh-weet.
i wanna buy a printer too... hmmmmm indeeeeeed, zedvox.
- zedvox0
hmmmmmm nick
its a grand and three hundred.bling.blink blink
- BonSeff0
booyah sluts!
got it last month. the ink smells like ASSSSSS!!!
dileriously, it smells like ass. it took us a few days to figure out where the smell was coming from.the rip software is not close to epsons. you have to collaborate the printer to the paper you are using each time you print. it reverts to glossy photo every fucking time. its kinda annoying.
on the plus side, the print heads are removable.
- zedvox0
oh ook.
i knew it
HP always lets me down.
hm,mmmmmmmmmmmmm
- BonSeff0
oh, and the rip is an extra 4hundy. if you are printing off placed eps's for print, you gotta get it.
but it is a super nice printer. if all you are doing is printing off photos, it's ace. it lays down the ink super nice and even.
BUT
it has a pantone matching issue.
when i print off pantone colors in illustrator and then the same color from quark, they are 2 completely different colors.
i've been round and round with tech support. they hate me.also the printer shoots the paper out like a freakin cannon.
seriously, they had to engineer a backstop in the tray to stop the paper.
hehe
- nick0
BonSeff just unsold me.
- auricom0
yeah, i'll stick with epson. dont' want my room smelling like ass....well even more like ass.
- BonSeff0
sorry fellas. i did the research on it and it was the best one out there. in their marketing sheets they say it matches color of offset printers. pfft.
i called tech support to question it and they said it was designed for photographers. he says, where?
so i had to point him to the paragraph.
crazy.
happy hunting.
i think this printer will grow on my once i get it all dialed in. but it shouldnt be that way
- Unorthodox0
we have a HP 5500 at werk and when that prints you can smell it across the room and the print quality isnt all that on anything other then glossy
- BonSeff0
are you using hp's rip unorthodox?
- Unorthodox0
yeah thats the only way it prints form our windows machines. i set it up correctly and all and it still looks like poo unless its on glossy paper
- BonSeff0
bah!
and that paper aint cheap.the funniest thing about that contest is that they want you to create a peice that shows off the color of the printer.
and umm err
they want you to submit a jpeg:!
how the fuck are you supposed to know how great the color is on the printer is if create it on screen and email a jpg?!?!
it would seem to make more sense that you create it and print it off the printer and actually mail in the paper!
jesus.
i cant remember ever making a photoshop piece that was print quality 24"x36" that came in under 5 megs.
- auricom0
good point. i rarely print with gloss mostly matte, wasn't too thrilled with the output on a 5650, granted it's nothin like the 130 or whatever, but once i did glossy, it was great. i checked out hp's stuff at the Adobe CS Tour, even there the matte was crap. they need a "glossy only" disclaimer.
- tactikal20
Well either way... I wish i was a US citizen cause I'd love a chance at that grand prize... its insane.