Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Thanks. I had suspected that BW would never be truly satisfactory on 
this printer. However, your comments on color profiles are encouraging 
and may persuade me to buy PFP anyway.

Tim Mimpriss
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CDTobie@... wrote:
> My results on the DesignJet 30/90/120 printers is the PFP2 profiles for 
> any of them are better than the HP profiles (even a third party article 
> reviewing this question came to that same conclusion) and the PFP 
> profiles are as good for third party papers as they are for the HP ones 
> (you can linearize the Designjets to third party paper as easily as to 
> HP paper). As for B&W, I don't find the DesignJet's inks to be capable 
> of stable, neutral B&W, though a PFP2 profile should offer the best B&W 
> that this system can manage. Gallery quality B&W will require a newer 
> generation HP, Canon, or Epson graphics printer.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com