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NM MSDK
NM MSDK
Inspiring
November 1, 2024
Question

Printer + Print settings

  • November 1, 2024
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Hi everybody,

 

My company is going to get new printers, and finally discard the old ones.

Now i can decide what printer i would prefer, because i solely have to print the highest quality and with photoshop.

The prefrence of the company is the Kyocera : TASKalfa 3554ci-series.

 

Now is my question, do you all think this printer is a good enough quality? And also, what settings would you allk suggest? My old printer is some Utax but my prints are actually pretty ugly and low - detail, that could be the printer or the settings, but that would you all know better then me...

 

I would love to hear from you guys!

 

-Nick

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 1, 2024

Why laser and not inkjet? For photographic work, inkjet is superior. Laser is better for text and possibly some types of graphic, but I would mainly think "office use".

 

I just got a new photo printer at work for 17" roll paper. It was really between Epson and Canon, and eventually I settled for an Epson SC-P 5300. And let me just say, it's a beauty. The print quality, with the right kind of paper and corresponding icc profiles, is absolutely mindblowing, and a perfect match to what I see on screen. Just make sure to use papers that have an icc profile from the manufacturer.

 

And so far it's been very easy to use and reliable. There are bigger models for 24" paper and up.

 

A big part of the trick is a properly calibrated monitor. Make sure you set monitor white point to visually match the paper, and monitor black point to match max ink. Then your monitor profile takes care of the rest, and the result is that what you see is what you get. A wide gamut monitor is a clear advantage because you can see all the colors the printer can reproduce.

    NM MSDK
    NM MSDKAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2024

    Apologies, i maybe should have specified what kind of projects i work on.

     

    I make manufactoring books on how to install greenhouse systems. First i render it out in another application and then i make a nice page with assembly vieuws on it, kinda like lego style.

     

    So its not really photo's i work with.

     

    And the reason its a laser is because the other people who will use it only print text, but this was decided between sales and the printer company, but i have some input in it, that why i ask it to you guys who have much more experience.

     

    Also noteworthy i only have about 4 months of experience with PS.

     

    Thanks!

     

    -Nick

     

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 1, 2024

    OK, got it - but then maybe Photoshop isn't the right tool to begin with. Photoshop is a raster editor and everything it does ends up as pixels. It sounds like you might be mostly handling vector data.

     

    Sending that through Photoshop will impact sharpness and crispness because it will be rendered to a base document resolution, as opposed to vector which is always rendered at maximum available resolution regardless of scale.

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