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  • problem with blues printing with a purple tinge

    Posted by Kev Cringle on 22 May 2010 at 09:45

    Hi all im having an issue with an image that has been supplied to me, on screen it looks fine when i send it to print the preview in the vpm and it looks purple and thats how the output on the printer turns out ?any ideas would be appreciated ?
    Im using signlab 8 running on xp pro ive tried it on my sp300 and also sp540v with the same results the file that is being used is a pdf ?

    Regards
    Kev

    Peter Normington replied 15 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Kev Cringle

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 09:51

    Just a thought ive done all the usual stuff head clean etc and test print is fine with no drop out etc

  • Derek Heron

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 10:04

    Hi Kev
    if you can post or send me the file i will have a look

    derek

  • Kev Cringle

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 10:10

    Hi Derek
    will do matey whats your mail address ?

    Cheers
    kev

  • Jon Marshall

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 11:18

    Is it a cmyk file?

  • Kev Cringle

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 11:32

    yeah i think it is cmyk ?

  • Matty Goodwin

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 11:50

    Hi!
    Have you tried changing CMYK to RGB?

    Have you got a WYSIWYG computer screen?

    Matt

  • Kev Cringle

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 12:22

    Hi Matty ive tried that and still no better it seems to be to do with when the image is sent to print to the vpm is where its changing colour i just did a solid rectangle picked a similar colour from my palet and same thing happens as soon as it shows the preview in the print manager it shows as a purple colour not a blue as it shows on the desktop mmm any ideas !!!!

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    22 May 2010 at 13:03

    kev hav you got the colour management turned on?
    are you sure the colour is supposed to be blue?
    and is your screen using the correct profile?
    is the image a vector or a raster file?
    are you using the correct material profile.

    signlab can be a bit awkward when it comes to printing blues,
    Peter

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