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Black+White Images on Soljet Pro3
Anyone got any tips on printing black and white images on a soljet pro3?
I’m running Versaworks, but there is no Greyscale/B+W only setting, and so far the best I’ve managed is to manually adjust the colour adjudtment settings, reducing the CMY, and increasing the black content, but it never comes out right.
Any way to print using the black ink only?
(The images are B+W photos, so no point setting up special colour values, as I do with flat blacks or greys)
TTFN,
Shane -
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Hi Shane,
I don,t have Versaworks here, but from memory if you select a Custom Profile, and then tick "preserve primary colours" this will force the output to give a direct representation of the input without converting to CMYK.
The image may be a bit dark as there will be no colour profiling but you could play around with the image in photoshop to lighten it up.
Give me a call if you are stuck.Regards
Fergus
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not familar with the roland, but if you load up your media profile.
ie.
say vinyl gloss go into the print media tab, there you maybe able to do three different things to turn off the colours!
select – output force black
select – rgb to greyscale (both the input and output)
select – cmyk to greyscale (both the input and output)
i use to do this in shiraz running to a mimaki jv3 this use to get rid of all the cyan, maganta and yellow scab dot. and run just the black head
the results were superb, it floods the black and looks far more natural and results in more of a litho quality than the epson 9800 using 3 different black heads at twice the price for inks x 3!!!!mess about with your rip, i bet there is a way of turning off cyan magenta & yellow otherwise your midtones will look more purple than a true black, which you could never sell out to a photographer.
ask one of the roland techies about running forced black
hope this helps!
cheers
simon
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