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Printing to canvas, help please?
Have recently started printing to canvas with various degrees of success but have just printed a scene of four people where the colour of their skin looks fine and their faces look very natural.
However their clothing, mainly jeans and dark shirts seem to have very heavy shadowing with little detail.
The printer is a Roland VP300 running X3.
Would appreciate some input on this issue.
Thanks
Tim
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6 Replies
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Hey Tim,
How are you processing? Is it direct from corel or through a rip?
Adrian
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Hi Adrian
Thanks for your reply. We received the photograph (10MB) from a photographer for the art canvas print.
On the screen the photo looks great, good definition, colour and sharp detail.
From Coreldraw we simply exported to Versaworks and RIPPED and printed it.
Having printed, the lighter colours look fine its the dark colours which have produced quite heavy shadows.
Any advice would be most appreciated.
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profiling sadly is difficult on canvas, took us a while to get it right, but a photographer could say its crap when we think its great
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Yes we have been printing off small samples just to try and get the heavy shadowing to disappear. We’ve adjusted the Gamma and lightness settings and so far so good.
Very complicated though.
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Tim
I am using a cadet with troop on LCAN from Grafityp. Just print using a standard frontlit banner profile. Images are fine with that.
Must admit, had all sorts of problems getting colours right in the first place but that was more of a material issue than anything else. Never have to play around with colour correction though.
Adrian
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Thanks Adrian and Dave
We had similar issues with sublimation printing using customers low resolution family pics. gave up in the end. We made the decision to only accept professionally produced photos now as the difference is remarkable. Still get small problems but easier to adjust i reckon.
Will have a go with the frontlit banner settings. We have the Grafityp settings luckily.
Thank you both for instilling some confidence back into the process.
Cheers
Tim
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