Most likely just adding them to the list. I doubt greatly that the HP drivers influence the rest.
I agree with you so far as the proofing is concerned. Much better matches.
CS3 printing on the HP 130nr is awesome.
First thing to do in case of unexpected behaviour is to reset your preferences.
Rob
Larry, not sure who you are addressing. My point was that I like what is coming out of CS3 using my HP drivers. The prints coming off the HP printer through Photoshop is far from garbage. I sell these large format prints on a daily basis.
Marion
First thing to do in case of unexpected behaviour is to reset your preferences.
The smiley, marionbach, the smiley!
Pulling your chain!
The problem is not the quality of a final CS3 print. No-one has said that it is.
It’s all the convoluted inconsistencies and counter-productive protocols that have to dealt with to get it to print if there is more than one printer installed.
No question that having a soft-proof page setup preview displayed is a good thing. If some sense can be written into the consistency of the setup dialogs and the way CS3 handles additional prints on a non-default printer from the same open file in particular, then also no question that the print setup dialog sequence has the potential to be a good thing.
It’s just that as it is, the setup as a whole can be a really confusing mess to operate.
Yes, the setup can be confusing like Fred suggested but CS3 is less confusing IMHO.
Marion
How many printers do you run from your machine, Marion?
Try it with more than one printer installed using the non-default printer to print with and you’ll see what I mean, Marion. Confusing and erratic are terms that do CS3 justice under that scenario.
Adobe doesn’t seem to contemplate anymore that there might be users of Ps10 – professional or otherwise – who use more than one printer for any number of reasons, even though Ps9 and versions before it were perfectly set up to handle this with no detriment at all to the single printer user.
I use 3 printers from PS. Xerox 8550, Epson 800, and the HP Designjet 130nr. I admit that the HP is the printer I print out of PS 90% of the time.
Marion
Marion: What do you think of the 8550?
The 8550 does a great job. Had an 8400 that died (still under warranty)and Xerox replaced it with the 8550. Color is better, faster, and a little cheaper to operate. Had a few problems but have the extended warranty.
If the HP is your default printer, Marion, you will not be having too many dramas, but make one of the others the default and watch the fun and games begin when you try to print with the HP as a non-default printer in Ps 10.
I was asking because I have one, just had problems getting consistent colour.
Actually the Xerox is my default printer. When I go to print in PS the Xerox is the one in the default window. I change it to the HP Designjet and all my settings come up. I just set the size of the print and go.
In the printer preferences I have the tekcolor set to automatic and it does a nice job. We print 300 double sided color 3 page mailers every month and they look great.
Then something is really screwed up with Ps 10, because as you’ve read, many of us are having the totally opposite experience. When used as a non default printer, every one of my three Epsons defaults to whatever is the default printer at the time with that printer’s settings after every print. Regardless.
If they wrote the print program and only tested it with HP hardware (I can’t believe that would be the case), then their testing would be ridiculously flawed.
Are you using Ps to colour manage, or just printing with the printer’s defaults and settings?
I’m using PS managed colors on the color handling. Even though I have the Xerox as the default printer, if I print to the HP I still have to reset the print profiles in the print dialog section. Whatever settings I used last are the profiles that stay open. If I print on the Xerox last and want to print on the HP, I have to go through and reset the settings to print on the HP. They don’t default back to the default printer after closing.
Are you resetting the color too or only Page setup, marionbabich?
I have to reset everything, color and page setup when I print to another printer.
That seems to match what fred finds.
Going back to my original post, I was saying that after you get all your settings set, the print, at least in my case, comes out better than in CS2 without having to do any hue adjustments in PS before printing.
Are the rest of you finding the same thing?
Pretty much. I have some curves for tweaking the i9900, especially using Epson Archival matte, but for some reason, I didn’t need it on a CS3 print output. Of course, that’s only one print and the tweak neutralizes a tendency to rainbowing on B&W, so more needs to be done.
But then, i am about to pick up a 3800.
Anyone want a used i990?
The 3800 has been a dream with the new program! The prints don’t require adjusting and come out as the monitor potrays.
I am on Mac and cannot print from CS3 (Indd and Acro8) to my HP 130nr.
Does anyone have a solution?
Which article in particular?
Sorry…I don’t have the time to go through each one.
I need a specific solution. My issue pertains to Indd and Acro8 Thanks
Sean
Sorry…I don’t have the time to go through each one.
There is a search facility you know.
…. and we humble Windows peoples are unlikely to know much about Macs.
Which article in particular?
start a new thread in the photoshop Mac forum with your problem. This is the photoshop WINDOWS forum.
Sean, Start a new thread.
Although the general consensus in the Mac forum is that HP printers are crap. and they have not updated their drivers to work with the Intel Macs. Try printing after you start CS3 in Rosetta, it should work just fine..
