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Help…Colours not printing as they should be??
Hi….I am using Artanium inks on a R1400 and Corel for the software. I thought everything was fine until last week….the blues are printing out purple!!!! I have done a clean and thats fine. I am thinking it is something to do with my settings.
The ICC is instaled and when I click on Colour Management the orange arrows are how they should be and the artanium is selected.
When I go to print I go to properties and choose the profile for artanium that I have previously set…I have set 4 of these one for each portrait and landscape in both sizes of paper.
When I have printed photos and pictures they have been OK – the problem seems to come in Coreldraw when I use the colours from the colour palett. It is set as CMYK. Is this correct as I am wondering if it should be set at RGB????
Any advise on settings would be really appreciated….have surfed the net but is as clear as mud!!!
Thanks
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Try publishing your work as a PDF file (pdf for press settings)
open the PDF in Acrobat reader.
Print it… see what u get… a match or the same?
also look at the PDF to see if it looks as expected, no purples. -
Thanks Dave. I have tried printing the image on my ‘normal’ printer R320 and t prints out as it should do as per the screen – its only the R1400 sublimation where the blues are becoming purple??!!
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Hi Tracey, we had this issue when we set our home system up, it was a nightmare. We use Rotech inks at home. We decided to go to scratch and not install any ICC profiles. Restore your settings in your corel back to normal.
Now any projects you’ve already got will have the artanium ICC profile.
it’s incredibly hard to understand why this happens because we searched the net for weeks, i even copied the settings at uni and it still didn’t work.
we went to the RGB 1998 setting and it worked for us after going back to the basic settings, people will argue that oh but your not getting the true colour by not using the ICC profile.
we wanted to print our designs in MS word, reason for this is simple, when we print straight from adobe paintshop, the sub paper was saturated in ink. from word it isn’t.
more clear as mud you will think.
i would say make a copy of your current settings, so you can go back, the go to simple settings
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also i would add to that, annalise the blue colour your are using, it may look Blueon the screen but if you line it up again other blues on a chart you will occassionally see it was a slight purple, thats what happened to me anyway.
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Cheers Emily….have today done a colour chart in corel RGB and printed that off – sublimated onto cloth and the blues came out fine….so am now going to try what you suggest and turn off the colour management and see what happens…..feel as though I am going in circles. Most of the stuff that I import into corel comes out ok…will try and use the RGB palett also and see what happens.
Why can’t printing be simple – but then again when you know it – it is simple!
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