HP Scitex FB550 Tips for improving printing quality - Page 7

banding while still achieving a good color gamut and accurate reproductions. This also means that a profile for Foam Board, for example, can be applied to UV Photobase without the need to do any color corrections or linearization, again considering lamp settings and media white point. III.3.1 Emulation Print Modes (Photo and Photo Plus) The standard FB550/750 Photo and Photo Plus print modes are printing at 1200 x 600 dpi while in the older FB500/700 series they printed at 600 x 600 dpi. Higher printing resolution is enlarging the printing color gamut, but as a consequence, the usage of more ink in these Photo print modes can result in having more horizontal banding than was characteristic of the old series. Emulation print modes are available in Photo and Photo Plus Print Modes and they are virtually printing at 600 dpi. As a result, they allow the FB550/750 to emulate the IQ achieved with the Photo Print Modes available with the old FB500/700 series. Emulation print modes are available in the recommended software RIP's for FB5x0/7x0 Printers: Onyx Thrive and Caldera Grand RIP. In order to use the Emulation Profiles, follow the instructions specified in HP Scitex FB5x0/7x0 Printers - Equivalent FB500-700 & FB550-750 Print Modes. III.3.2 Caldera RIP Profiles provided with drivers for the FB5x0 and FB7x0 have saturated colors and a large color gamut. To achieve these results, an increased ink saturation was necessary and this can contribute to swath edge banding. FB500/700: Ink saver profiles are available from Caldera in the following print modes: Max DPI, Photo Plus, Photo, Indoor Signage Plus and Indoor Signage- 4C and 6C. They use reduced ink levels and have minimal impact on color gamut: Linearization: standard photo mode CMYKcm Linearization: ink saver photo mode CMYKcm Color gamut (L=50). Standard vs Ink saver Ink saver profiles: available print modes Color gamut: standard photo mode CMYKcm Color gamut: ink saver photo mode CMYKcm 7