oki laser help, design…..

[David Rowland]

isnt there Density button or settings wheel on the oki?

Shake the toner was an old trick

there is actually a spray u can get, silk screeners should know that trick

[Hugh Potter]

nothing i can see Dave, only the settings on the printer options which pop up when ready to print.

[Ian Bingham]

There is in the settings on the machine, you can up it by 2 i think

also you can use 100% black in one of the setting as well on the pop up on the computer

ian

[Chris Windebank]

Hi Hugh,
when printing go to job options then advanced. You can select 100% black rather than the tones through the coloured inks. Worth a shot

[Hugh Potter]

thanks Chris, tried that a short while ago, just came out in giant pixelated rashes! i’m going to crewe tomorrow eve and on my way back on wed’s, i’ll pop into tmt, this is a real pain,even regular pics on regular paper is poor. hmmm,.

[Kenny Ramsey]

I’ve had an Oki for a while and it’s not the greatest at times. I’ve seen people get better results form a £50 Lexmark.

Are you printing on paper or acetate?

[Chris Windebank]

Hugh, can you email the exact file you are printing and I will print here and post the result

[Hugh Potter]

quote Chris Windebank:

Hugh, can you email the exact file you are printing and I will print here and post the result

hi chris, the exact file i’m doing is the cdr12 file above.

cheers.
Hugh

ps, off to Crewe in a mo, and dropping into tmt with my laptop and all associated print samples, hopefully they’ll get to the bottom of it!

[Sean Morris]

Hi Mate,

What model of OKI are you using, I hope I can help, iv’e been using
OKI for years.

Have you tried other colour settings in the pdf options when you print.

Cheers
Sean

[Hugh Potter]

HI Sean,

the printer is an oki 5600n, everything else i print seems to come out fine, well, mostly, the two pics i had trouble with are the avp and one of the mrs holding a brightly coloured sea fish she caught, the deep oranges and reds kind of merge into a neon looking fish!

in honesty, i haven’t tried printing either for a while now, not since this post, i might have another go soon, it’s just remembering to do it when the press is on and running!

i’ve printed full colour brochure pages and many other things too, with absolutely no problems, just seems to struggle with certain images.

ps, is there a way to print edge to edge? or is this not posible on the oki?

thanks.
Hugh

[Sean Morris]

Hi Hugh,

Did you try to print from a PDF file from Corel, also in Corel X3 you can setup
your profiles from tools – colour management, generally OKI will supply the
icc profiles on a disc that shipped with your printer.

The funny thing is I get better colour from my OKI 8600 if I select
in properties (auto colour) instead of advance colour, I guess somehow
it picks up the embedded colour profile?….

A few years back I worked on a larger OKI beast and I use to
go into the menu and adjust the amount of CMYK, from printing out
a test chart image greyscale etc.. and it ended up looking pretty nice
after tweaking of course I’m sure with a decent hardware/software
calibrator you could do it more accurately.

Cheers
Sean

[Sean Morris]

forgot to add, no edge to edge, if you mean full bleed without going to oversized paper, and then cut the bugger down by hand.