HP Z3200 Paper profile for Canson Baryta Prestige II ??

[HCHeyerdahl]

I recently bought a 44 inch roll of Canson Baryta Prestige II for my Z 3200 photo. However, I forgot check if they make profiles for my HP Z 3200 Photo, and it appears they don´t (not surprising really).

My first guess will be to try using the HP baryta setting on the printer. Does anyone have other suggestions?

[Kyle Jackson]

Hi, I have no experience with those papers. I start here: http://z3200.com/Working_with_other%20Papers_HP-Z3100_z3200_Printers.htm and the HP guides linked at the bottom there.

You can see in the tables what print settings each paper preset uses and then judge what you want to experiment with.

Some of the branded presets are "locked", meaning the printer settings are greyed out and can't be adjusted (ink limit for example), while some of the generic presets can be tuned, so I start with the latter.

In this case you can see the HP Baryte preset's settings are the same as the Photo Gloss/Semi/Satin More Ink and Photo Pearl More Ink presets. The HP one might be locked however while the generic ones might be tunable.

In my very limited experience with this stuff I simply cal and profile different presets and settings I want to try and then compare the profile gamuts to see the differences.

Those HP guides explain in more detail and suggest a step-by-step process to follow.

[HCHeyerdahl]

Thank´s that is very useful

When you write about profiling and calibrating, I asume that requires the PS version? Or can the Photo version also do that?

EDIT: Sorry, forget about this.  I misread your previous message - thought it was about the APS.

[Kyle Jackson]

Yeah all the Z3100/Z3200 models should be able to calibrate and profile with the internal spectrophotometer (an X-Rite i1 according to brochure) through the Colour Centre in HP Utility.

The APS is an odd duck. It came with my Z3100ps GP but I never used it. I thought it was only for monitor profiling and my NEC monitor already had stuff for that so I left it in the box.

But I learned just a year or so ago that the APS also has some extra print profiling options (compared to HP Utility / Colour Centre), including printing and scanning of custom profiling targets. (I finally tried it out to help with some print profiling tests.)

Near as I can tell some of these APS features were more-or-less rolled into the HP Utility for the Z3200 (and HP kind of abandoned the APS as a Z3100-era relic). The HP Utility will show different menu options in Colour Centre depending on which printer models are connected. So on my Z3200ps the Colour Centre shows a Colour Measurement option in the menu whereas it does not for my Z3100ps GP.

A non-PS Z3200 might be missing that option too, but you can easily check. But it's not anything you really need unless you want to get into printing/scanning custom profiling targets instead of using the included ones.

(There is also lurking somewhere on this site a techie thread about "converting" non-ps models to PS  )

[kers]

the " more ink " is not always the best choice... sometimes less is more...
you have to find out.