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Rick LePage on Fine Art Printers for Aperture

Inside Aperture Podcast 14

by Derrick Story
04/30/2007

Aperture Printer Presets.

Affordable hardware for fine art printing is more bountiful than ever. In this exclusive Inside Aperture podcast, Macworld editor at large, Rick LePage, covers the latest offerings from Epson, HP, and Canon. Rick supplies plenty of insight about how HP is challenging Epson, and some thoughts about Canon's emergence, then absence in the midrange fine art market.

Rick has posted reviews of the HP Photosmart Pro B9180 and the Canon ImagePROGRAF iPF5000 large format printer. He's currently testing the Epson Stylus Pro 3800, and has written a nice piece on Pigment vs. dye inks - Which is best?.

All of the hardware we discuss in this podcast works well with Aperture and Rick even throws in a couple of Aperture-specific tips. You may also want to listen to Joe Schorr talk about color management with Aperture for a refresher of how to set up your workflow for the best output.

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Derrick Story is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly. His current book is The Digital Photography Companion. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.

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Aperture color management fails with HP 460 deskjet
2007-07-31 09:11:11 rolfkrake [Reply | View]

I did not yet see a satisfying print from Aperture with my HP deskjet 460, but many horribly distorted prints. Probably Aperture incorrectly translates the HP 460 profiles as it seems to do for the HP 8750 8 ink printer. I dearly hope that this problem will be adressed soon!

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2007-06-01 22:17:32 aioiddy [Reply | View]

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HP ICC Profiles
2007-05-17 04:54:45 cheechmaroon [Reply | View]

Would you fellas (I'm not sure who is or isn't an Aperture developer for Apple here) please fix the way Aperture incorrectly translates the HP ICC profiles for the HP 8750 8 ink printer. I don't know how many more great podcasts on print profiling I can listen to that just don't apply to me since I can't get any good printing results from this combo... and it definitely is an Aperture bug. PLEASE! Every other program prints just beautifully with the 8750 EXCEPT Aperture.

If the HP printer that you rave about here works so well, then it seems that this is just a minor bug that is getting ignored. I'd want to use my investments as advertised. (I have posted this on the Aperture Forum with no resolution). Here's an early THANKS for looking into this.