HP Vivera Ink Cartridges

Hp Vivera Ink Cartridges

Printing from Photoshop CS4 using an HP All-in-one DJ640 with the HP Vivera ink cartridge, produced an image that was very close to the screen colors of my calibrated screen. This is using a desktop printer, Win XP Pro.  I chose the correct paper and ink setup in the driver AND made sure to go into printer properties and select for the application to manage color. The prints matched the screen...no problem.(including skintones) The ink cartridge also includes a plastic cover to cover up the nozzle when you store it. So you can change out cartridges all you want, just put the cover on it and things will be fine.

Now, to the negatives....the HP Vivera ink cartridge is small, and the default driver setting is for colorsmart color matching. It was not good, rather....hideous. I set it for the program to handle instead. I have no idea how many 8x10 prints I'll get out of this cart, but I've printed about 20 so far today.

FWIW, I didn't use HP's image editing software since I own Photoshop CS4. These settings worked like a champ in Photoshop, but I have no idea how other programs will work. This was also with a HPDJ640 all in one printer.

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