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Matching colours problems
Hi All
I have to match a colour from a supplied painted sample and it is an olive dirty greeny greyish colour 😕 I have printed out the Roland colour system library but nothing on there comes close except a 35% grey (but doesn’t have the slight green hue to it)
My main problem comes in when using cmyk colours as they are different to the Roland System library, a 35% black in the Roland library is 35% black only, a 35% black made up as a normal swatch colour comes out with cmyk printed so it looks blueish.
I have tried so many different mixes but nothing comes anywhere close and would be interested to know how I can recreate the Roland colours but be able to tweak them myself;
for example I would like to use the Roland 35% black but need to add maybe 5% cyan and yellow but as soon as I change it to a cmyk colour it changes the colour?
Anybody understand a single word I am saying 😮 and can shed some light.
cheers
Warren
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Warren
This may be of some use. We have the gamut printed which comes in very handy.https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … c&start=30
Cheers
Gary
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Thanks Gary, that’s a great help for future but won’t help for this colour as it’s not in that Gamut range.
Am going to play with a few setting as mentioned in that thread and see how the colours compare.
Welcome to the wonderful world of digital printing!
cheers
warren
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quote Warren Beard:Welcome to the wonderful world of digital printing!
:lol1: 🙄 I know exactly what you mean.
I paid for someone to come in and give us a days training on both versaworks and colour management, we learned alot but it is very difficult to take too much in in such a short time.
Cheers
Gary
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The colour is very close to Pantone 7536c if you have a book to check, is this normally a difficult colour to match?
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Warren give it the roland code then gointo versaworks and edit the colour.
click on file format and spot colour list, edit output colour. -
CHEERS RICH WILL GIVE THAT A GO (Sorry forgot caps on)
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Then throw in the fact it will print differently on every different type of media you use and every change in print speed/resolution….
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