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Printing solid black on a Grenadier
Afternoon everyone.
We run a Grenadier printer and have a re-occuring problem.
I’m printing a job at the moment which consists of blocks of black.
When i send it to print i’m slowing the printer right down, have it on the
maximum number of passes and on Dot Type 4, but the black still looks
like a dark grey, and does look a tad ‘bandy’.The print heads are all clear, and i’m printing as a ‘spot’ so it should just
be using the black head.Any ideas what else i can try ?? ……
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4 Replies
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What if you set the colour to cmyk C50,M50 Y0 K100
this gives a solid black on my mimaki,
Cant see how the colour can slow the printer down though, it should be going the same speed whatever the colour?Peter
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Sounds like you are printing cmy instead of spot colour black.
I think your question is answered in this thread here:-
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=24051i.e (From that thread)
"I had the same problem with my cadet, when i wanted to print just 100% Cyan Black etc, i found that it would always print in C,M,Y,K.
If you have Troop Version 4. go to job property’s and go to the 3rd tab, look for "perform color correction" turn that off, that should enable you to print single spot colors i.e. yellow cyan black etc also the quality of prints seems to improve quite alot.
You may notice that when u have unselected this option (color correction) the cadet will not plot, so go down to "use color mapping" on the same menu, and turn that off too, the plotter should now work. " -
Thanks Peter and Phill …..it’s certainly a lot better.
It’s not ‘completely’ solid, but don’t think it’s going to get much better.I’ve changed everything to Spot Colour now rather than CMYK.
You learn something new everyday.😀
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This is something that Simon Johnson has explained in a previous post. When you have the image open in the rip you right click on the colour you want to change or correct, select replace spot colour. Your cmyk values in the bottom left of the box should read 0,0,0,255. You then need to click on the device bypass button above. You can then ok yourself out again renaming the profile when prompted. Your black will now be red and white stripes, but it prints with black only.
Frank
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