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Several articles have been recently published on the new HP Z3100.

This printer has been announced at Photokina 2006.

Here is a list of important new features for an HP printer:

• First large format printer from HP that uses pigmented inks and is in direct competition to equivalent printers by Epson (7800/9800) and now also Canon (IPF 5000, IPF 8000)
• Features a built-in XRite Eye-One spectrophotometer. The printer can calibrate and profile papers using this spectrophotometer.
• 12 colors with extra Red, Green and Blue with larger gamut (we will only look into this when we find pictures of friends and clients that need a larger gamut (our images are not very saturated and we even print more and more B&W or muted colors )
• 4 black and grays (photo black and matte black loaded at the same time like with the Canon IPF5000)
• Gloss Enhancer to avoid bronzing and gloss differential
• Clog prevention technologies
• Very high permanence rating from Wilhelm Imaging Research (>200 years). We take all these data with some grain of salt but it still proves that today’s printer manufacturers pay a lot of attention to longevity.

Some articles and videos have been published on this printer. I will talk about them in this article.

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Bron Elektronik AG has published a useful tool for photographer: a light shaper comparison.

You can compare the effect of different light combos on a model.

So before buying a new softlight reflector or a soloflex, try the tool to check it is what you really wanted.

Outbackphoto has just published an article with all the tools they have used in 2006: “Our most used new editing tools in 2006“.

They are talking about:

• LightZone 2.0
• Photomatix 2.3
• Akvis Enhancer
• Alien Skin Exposure

I highly recommend the reading of this article.

This year I was at Bucharest for the new year.

In 1989 when I was seeing the revolution at the television I could not imagine being at the same Revolution Place few years later to celebrate the entrace of the Romania into the European Union.

As a matter of fact, I was there!

This video has been made at the Revolution Place when Romania has celebrated its entry into European Union. Being French, my country is part the EU since I am born. So it was great to be in a country that was newly part of it and was celebrating it.

Everybody was enjoying this moment and had a lot of hope.