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  • Printing Black to Magenta – Not smooth and Continuous

    Posted by Dave Rich on June 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    As above….trying to print a colour merge from Light Magenta to black but it doesnt seem to merge perfectly. The print has quite noticable banding.

    Any ideas as to whats going on. Designed on Corel X3.


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    Simon Worrall replied 11 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  • David Hammond

    Member
    June 11, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Try and add some Magenta into the Black.

    I know we did that with a gradient on a box design we did that was a 2col litho job.

    Seemed to smooth out the transition.

  • Dave Rich

    Member
    June 11, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Done that Dave…its not the colours, theyr’e perfect, its the non smooth transition

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    June 11, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Rasterise the file and add some "Noise" (Gausssian Blur) to eliminate the banding caused by steps present in the vector drawn file.

  • Dave Rich

    Member
    June 12, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    that sounds quite logical Phil….ill try that tomorrow ta!

  • Dave Rich

    Member
    June 13, 2012 at 7:45 am

    By rasterizing you mean convert to bitmap?

  • Karl Williams

    Member
    June 13, 2012 at 7:59 am

    Dave, from the photo the black looks purple mate. Is this just the way the photo has come out? What file type are you printing? I sometimes find that printing a rgb file instead of cmyk sorts this.

  • Stafford Cox

    Member
    June 26, 2012 at 8:28 am

    What RIP are you using Dave?

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    June 26, 2012 at 8:45 am

    If I am not mistaken that looks like the wrong profile.

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