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marwen1 -> RE: Who makes Their own Graphics/Stickers (8/9/2006 3:28:02 PM)
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Well, that's pretty much a loaded question.
1st off, if you have an HP product, then by all means ALWAYS use their inks, and ALWAYS use their media to get the very best performance.
Personally, I use EPSON pruducts. Once upon a time, I had an EPSON printer and I used HP paper (media). With 2 hrs, the blue ink was actually bleeding off into the white border. TOTALLY unacceptable! I couldn't have sold that print on the best odds in the world!
Now then, to your question. The odds are that the media you want will not be an HP product, so fair warning -- brace yourself for some strange results as well as the colours not being what you want them to be!
In any case, what you want to do is set your printer for the highest quality of printout as possible and you might want to choose something like a "premium gloss" or else a "film", maybe it will be called a TRANSPARENCY.
One other thing that I might want to give you a "heads-up" on is the colour balance of using a MIX of brands.
My closest friend is a professional photographer and has worked for JOSTENS (the school picture people) for over 35 years,
Digital pictures came out within the past few years. REGARLESS what I tell him, he constanlt mixes his inks, his media, and whatnot! He is always getting crappy results. He always comes to me asking what did he do wrong? Invariably, the answer is the same. Did you use HP ink? NO! Did you use HP paper? NO!
What can I say? All companies have research & development departments for a reason.
Use their reccomendations and the odds are, you won't go too far wrong!
best of luck
marwen1
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