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can anyone advise with problems printing Grey
Hi All,
I’m trying to print an image that has lots of grey shades. Thing is I’m prinitng it for a printer mate of mine, fussy as **** he is. The image is a camo print that he wants wrapped over his jet ski.
The light grey area prints with a pink tingde to it and I just cant get rid of it.
Why do solvent printers have problems printing grey and do you have any ideas of getting around it.
Its driving me crazy or should I say, he is. and wasting lots of media with sample after sample prints.
From Mark
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Who supplied the artwork?
What printer & RIP are you using?
Are you using the correct profile?
Genuine inks or 3rd party?
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Who supplied the artwork?
What printer & RIP are you using?
Are you using the correct profile?
Genuine inks or 3rd party?
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Hi David
I’m using a Uniform Grenadier / Soljet
Rip is Wasatch
Activosol Inks
profile MD5 using MD5
artwork suppied by others.
I’ve printed grey before, I know I have lol
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Don’t have a clue then Mark, as it’s nothing like my set up.
Trial and error, and charge for printed samples after the 1st one 😉
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So funny…..I am having the exact same issue with the same printer, rip and profile. Im printing 10% black to 80% and Im getting a pink tinge too. The 10% black is literally just that too on the CMYK scale…puzzling and fustrating. I am working on this and will let you know my outcome….you too if you sort it thanks!
Dave
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Try turning the heat right down. Sometimes (don’t know why), greys have a pink tinge
if the heat is too high. We generally have to run greys at no more than 35 print heat –
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try taking a bit of magenta out using the correction curves in the rip
we had a similar problem with our greys printing ‘greeny’ and adjusting the yellow channel in the rip helped…..ultimately though you might need your printer correctly profiled
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Simples…RIP as a monochrome black only with no colour component in Wasatch.
Prints perfect greyscale from black only.
Dave
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I don’t really know your RIP but is there any way of disabling the output ICC profile? That might give you better results…..??
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Hi David
Did you sort out the issue of the pinky grey? My issue was a Activasol rip on Activasol Premium inks, must have change sometime previously and since swapping back its fine!
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Yup agree with Dave – run as monochrome image.
Either change image to greyscale before sending to rip or change in-rip if you have colour replacement options.
I do this for both the HP Z6200 & the Mimaki CJV -
Roland has a colour system using palettes in your graphics program. You print out the chart, and this relates to the palette colours, and what you see on the chart is always what you get. There are 22 grey shades on this chart. Does you machine or rip come with something similar to this?
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