printing pantone colours

[Phill Fenton]

Hi Paul – I was about to say I use the Corel pantone colour pallete to assign the correct pantone shade – export as .eps then use the Troop RIP to print. This usually gives excellent results – but I see you are already doing that. 😕 The obvious thing to check is that you are using the right profile for your media, but you’ve probably already done that as well.

Apart from that – I can’t understand why you are having this problem unless perhaps there is an error in the Corel pallete for that particular shade? Are you having difficulty matching other pantone colours? Can you try assigning the colour from another pallete such as Signlab? Just a thought.

[Paul Hughes]

hi Phill

don’t normally have a problem but just can not seem to get this job right
what rendering settings do you use in troop or do you take off the colour correction?

Paul

[Phill Fenton]

I have never adjusted any of the colour correction settings – these are as they were when troop was first installed.

I’ll try printing a block of this shade tomorrow to see if my Cadet and Troop are matching the colour correctly or not.

[Paul Hughes]

may be that’s the problem Phill I’m trying to be too clever :banghead:

will see if I can set everything back to default and give it another go

many thanks

Paul

[Graeme Speirs]

IHAVE TO say that the corel 12 and 13 colour pantone refernece has been first clsss n any job ive done on my cadet. All im doing is saving file from corel to an EPS and dropping it into troop 5.

I ran 2 banners for my wife’s work and they are fussy feckers when it comes to colour matching so I was worried and they printed really well.

Other jobs have also been great. I havent made nay changes from whenI first got the machine.

Whilst this doenst exactly answer your question maybe it indicates some sort of settings issue?

CHEERS
graeme

[Graeme Speirs]

sorry another thought in corel pantone pallette I think there are various options such coated and uncoated? might htis affect the shade?

right click your object
properties
hit advanced tab
pallettes tab

then there is a whole host of options there ie: coated, uncoated etc etc might be worth trying small blocks of each

cheers

[Phill Fenton]

Did you get this sorted Paul. I just tried a test using corel 9 and troop v5 on my cadet using activasol inks – the result was a very close match.

[Paul Hughes]

Hi Phill

sort of got it sorted, printed out a load of test prints and matched it like that.

the printed pantone colours seemed to be somewhat darker when held up to the pantone swatch, hard to explain really. I could just be being over critical.

thanks for the help

Paul