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RIPs and Profiles – advice needed, please?
We have a JV33 with Shiraz Signature RIP which I find is a nice program to use, however, there are very limited profiles available. Basically I have no actual profiles for the regular media I use.
Obviously I’ve chosen the profiles which work best for what I’m using and that’s been fine in general but I recently had to print a wrap on Avery 1005 and none of the profiles gave a satisfactory result which ended up with the customer complaining about the colour match.
Would it be worth considering a new RIP such as Onyx which has greater profile support?
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I suspect that your RIP lets you import custom profiles. Depending on the number of media you use, one option would be to purchase something like the http://www.colormunki.com/product/show? … _type=true designer version of the x-rite colormunki product.
Allows you to profile printers (RGB and CMYK), as well as screens. Costs around £400 to buy, and then of course you have to learn how to use it(not hard), and take time to use it. Might be cheaper than buying (learning, setting up etc) a new RIP. And definitely cheaper than a complaining customer!
It gives you have option of profiling up any media that you want to try / use, with or without laminates. Takes pretty much all of the guess work out of laying down ink.
The Munki (Blo0dy awful name) is the baby sister of the i1 pro, which is a lovely beastie, capable of even greater control, but atleast 5x the price.
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Have you spoken with Stafford Cox at all Jon, he deals with Shiraz I believe. Might be worth giving him a call if he doesn’t see this thread.
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I worked with Richard Butler, he is very good, his business is Coloursafe
Best regards
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I definitely wouldn’t replace your RIP.
I’m a Shiraz reseller and can make some basic profiles but I’ve never found the standard ones to be that far out. Have you tried using an MD5-100 profile? That seems to be the ‘generic’ one most of my customers use. If you have a colour instrument (I’ve always used an eye-one as it’s the cheapest) they are relatively easy to make up….
Stafford
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