Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: reburns on August 29, 2007, 05:06:45 pm
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Hello,
Is there any reason not to get a HP Z3100 non-ps? A dealer has a demo at reduced price (-$700), full warranty. A colleague of mine has one and I have a sample print from his.
I am an amatuer photographer, doing general photography and not knowing where it is heading. In between surfing photography forums, I am a consulting mechanical engineer, using Solidworks. HP says I can use the non-postscript version for Solidworks (correct?). I would enjoy printing on different materials, both color and B&W. A consideration for myself is that I have color-blindness in the greens, and it takes me effort to deal with. I am currently using a 5D, and a carefully chosen & cared for set of Canon and Zeiss lenses (will trade it all if my needs change). I don't hardly do vector output like labels, and have no need to print from Illustrator at this time. I wonder if I got the non-postscript version if there is a way to output a vector to a fixed size (PDF?) and print it. That would only come into play if somehow I started printed advertisement.
Photography is not my job, and so the printer will sit idle at times and then used in spurts.
Thanks, trying to decide ASAP. Ralph
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Hello,
Is there any reason not to get a HP Z3100 non-ps? A dealer has a demo at reduced price (-$700), full warranty. A colleague of mine has one and I have a sample print from his.
I am an amatuer photographer, doing general photography and not knowing where it is heading. In between surfing photography forums, I am a consulting mechanical engineer, using Solidworks. HP says I can use the non-postscript version for Solidworks (correct?). I would enjoy printing on different materials, both color and B&W. A consideration for myself is that I have color-blindness in the greens, and it takes me effort to deal with. I am currently using a 5D, and a carefully chosen & cared for set of Canon and Zeiss lenses (will trade it all if my needs change). I don't hardly do vector output like labels, and have no need to print from Illustrator at this time. I wonder if I got the non-postscript version if there is a way to output a vector to a fixed size (PDF?) and print it. That would only come into play if somehow I started printed advertisement.
Photography is not my job, and so the printer will sit idle at times and then used in spurts.
Thanks, trying to decide ASAP. Ralph
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I have not tried printing a pdf from my printer, but I would assume that it would not look very good... I bought my printer primarily for printing photographs, but with that being said if HP said that there would be no problem (and I would get that in writing) I do not see the reason not to jump on getting the demo model.
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Thanks for the reply,
The whole postscript question was really a contingency to see if there was a workaround if I ever wanted it, but I'm pretty sure that I won't.
However, I am going to shy away from this one (I was verbally quoted $3200 shipped). Anyway, I know this isn't a buy/sell forum. The price is indeed tempting, but then we all know you get what you pay for.