Mark, thank you for the video - informative and beautiful work.
Looked like you were printing to a Baryta paper, and then letting the auto cut drop the print into the basket; in a dozen years of printing for clients, I've not tried that, except for vinyls, graphics, and schematics. Does the ink settle fast enough to really do that?
How does the printer handle robust paper - thinking the Canson Prestige Baryta (which I run a lot of) - I scarcely use the last couple of yards on a roll, as the curl is inviting head strikes on our 8400.
This also links into the profile generation. A Lot of the work we do gets cold mounted to various substrates, and it would be great to be able to print a patch set, laminate it and mount to a light weight substrate subtitute (i.e. 1mm whight forex) and read the patches, all through the printer (with an extended patch set). Currently, with the most laminated / mounted combinations we use, we run 2033 patches, then wait 24 hours, then hand read... I'm not sure how I would replicate the reflectance of an aluminium backing...
And, with profile generation, how rapidly were you able to sensibly read the patches? Are we still looking at a 24 hour delay (at least with the Canons) before the images have cured?
(Side note, was at a print trade show in the UK last month, and saw an amazing Mimaki printer which produced scratch proof images almost immediately, with all sorts of spot varnish (All over varnish??) options, complete with auto (any shape) cut, and the ability to print to uncoated stock...)
WRT productivity, I'm printing through EFI express - there's a lot of ganging up prints, and I love the ability to build settings for repeat jobs and "presets" - did you see anything in the HP s/w that would allow us to dispense with a dedicated RIP?
The Canon ain't broke, but is getting a bit long in the tooth, and iot's been too long since the last toy new development in client service enhancement
Sorry, that was a lot of questions.
And sorry, I guess this belongs better in the HP Designjet Z9 - HP has launched a new large format photo printer thread.
Also sorry for the bad habbit I've developed of starting sentences with And; and sorry... Need a faster printer, that doesn't need baby sitting late into the evening.