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Printing to roll-up banner – colour issue, help please?
Hi all
As the title, I am printing to block-out roll-up, and the colours are coming out very faded, washed out, and the wrong colours. Using the Grenadier and Versaworks, UV inks / Lightbar. I have tried a UV profile for pop-ups, and for Metamark MD5 gloss vinyl with very similar results. Instead of vibrant oranges I am getting washed out pinky/brown colours.
Wondered if any of you have advice.
The images were sent as PSD files, which i converted to PDF’s, put an outline on in Signlab, then print to VW. Is it simply too many processes do you think?Don’t really know what else to try, to be honest.
Lorraine
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5 Replies
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i know vw preview is a waist of good computer resources but does it show bad in there.
i would open in photoshop and save as a jpeg print the jpeg from vw with all the marks switched on.
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Hi Lorraine,
I usually print using MD5 and up the brightness in Versaworks, however that’s using ECO-SOL inks.
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We have had this happen to us before and its generally down to using a Aqueous based material on a solvent machine. The results are always very faded when we’ve put the wrong base material on wrong machine
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Just a thought – but something I have made a mistake with in the past. Are you printing on the correct side of the material? I have had banner material in the past that you print on the outside as it comes off the roll (i.e same as print vinyl). But then also I have had some brands where you print on the inside of the material as it comes of the roll. Hope that makes sense?
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Very good point raised by Phil!
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