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Color Laser Sublimation for HP 4500 & 4550
"What You See is What You Get"
The HP 4550 is still the best printer for color laser sublimation,
and Hilton Images has
dramatically improved the sublimation toners for it. Most sublimation
toners for the 4500 have a yellow which is too strong in comparison
with the other colors. The result is that a “fire engine red”
is impossible to achieve, “tomato soup red” is as close
as they can achieve. Their instructions ask you to calibrate the
yellow to –5, and still it’s too strong.
Unlike most other distributors of sublimation toners we have the
capacity to create custom formulations. So we set out to create
a set of SubToners for the 4500/4550 which would be balanced and
would work together.
And our toners are really excellent. We wanted our sublimated
images to closely resemble the same images on the computer screen,
without adjustments in the program or on the printer. But there
are so many variables in monitors, in computer programs, in color
management setups and color profiles that we can’t predict
how any color will really look on anyone else’s computer screen.
So we calibrated our toners to closely resemble the output of the
printer itself. An HP 4500 or 4550 will generate some interesting
display pages, with or without a computer attached, which demonstrate
how good a sublimation toner really is.
We formulated SubToner to closely resemble the printed page output
of a configuration page. Comparing the sublimated configuration
page on white metal against the printed page with conventional toners.
We originally formulated our toners to operate best at printer calibrations
of K = 0, C = 0, M = 0, Y = 0, but we found greater versatility
with a slightly stronger black which could stand alone at K =0,
or work well with the other the colors at K = -2.
Our SubToners for the HP 4500/4550 produce stunningly rich colors
on metals, vibrant and saturated. Request
samples to see for yourself.
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Finest Quality Laser Sublimation Products