[ale] Printers stink

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:22 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 08:50, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> | I really think my next print system is going to be one of Xerox crayon
> | printers. I've had enough of HP.
> 
> If you can get by with color output a thin notch down from a
> commercial quality color (inkjet) printer, then don't give up on
> HP printers; just try one of the color laser printers.  I am using
> a 2605 dn (duplex/networked) and the only complaint I have is speed.
> At 12 ppm for straight text it is slow by today's standards.  I think
> the next model up is about twice as fast -- but it probably costs 
> nearly twice as much. :)

I am just so fed up with HP products that I can't stand the thought of
using them. Between the ink cartridges that "expire", crappy server
hardware, non-existent support, over-priced consumable printer parts,
etc, I've just hit my limit on spending money on HP anything. They are
NOT the company the used to be.
> 
> I finally threw out my Epson color inkjet (exhibition quality and
> 17'-wide paper feed) because of the high cost of ink.  I was only
> using it once or twice a month and the ink kept drying up in the nozzles.
> The damn thing was costing me a fortune in ink.  It has been much
> cheaper for me to make a sample print on the HP laser and take it and the
> image file down to a custom printer when I need a professional grade
> print.
> What I _need_ is proper color-matching software that will allow me to
> calibrate my monitor/printer/scanner.  This has been around for years
> now on Windows and Max boxes. To go with that I also need graphics
> software (Gimp et al) that can use the generated color profiles.

Hear, hear!! Let's start with good monitor adjustments and go from
there. The lack of Pantone color matching in Gimp is a sore sticking
point for many people. It is also on the drawing pages to address. The
issue is not technical, it's legal/financial. In order to use Pantone
designations, someone will have to write a color-space plugin and charge
a fee because of the license cost on the Pantone data set. Until the
color-space subset in Gimp is rewritten to be LGPL, this can't happen.
> 
> Sean
> 
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