SP 540 – Colors

[Jason Xuereb]

Different quality settings = different amounts of ink on the media.

I would see what settings your going to use and print out these charts for colour matching. You need to do them for every type of media your going to use. As they will all vary.

You will also have to do them for every type of media and different profile settings if you change them for medias. It’s a pain in the bum but the only sure fire way you can do colour matching.

I don’t use corel so can’t help you there.

[Terje Fjulsrud]

Thanks I’ll do that.

So if a customer has the cmyk values for their color, i cant just enter
the values and print the same color?

[Terje Fjulsrud]

i think I’m getting it now.. c100 m50 y0 k0 will look different on different medias and on different printers.. right?

[Stephen Morriss]

Yes different medias have a different white point, some are very white while some can be quite Grey.
I have Oracal and Hexis medias here and the Oracal looks Grey beside the Hexis media, the colours on the Hexis are slightly brighter as well.

I’ve not printed out the colour charts using all medias and print settings and they are usually quite close, close enhough to give you an idea how it’ll look.
Also while quite useful the colour charts don’t have all available useful on and I’ve generally found that it only gets me close to the needed colour.

Steve

[Jason Xuereb]

That’s right. If they give you a colour to match you’ll need a swatch book and then you match that to your printed colour charts.

I’m with Stephen I only have them printed for my main two types of media in one quality setting. I don’t really use them that much. Especially with photos etc.

[Terje Fjulsrud]

Thanks guys

I printed some of the roland swatch books, on avery mpi2000 with correct icc profile. Hi quality.

The colors looks good. One "problem" :

The onscreen color and the printed color are very far off..
i know this is not easy to gett 100% but i am waaay off.

When i look at the screen and see very light yellow, it prints almost orange!?

any ideas?

[Jason Xuereb]

Brightness, contrast, color balance of your monitor. The type of monitor you have ie crt or lcd. Makes a huge difference and monitor calibration is very difficult to get right. If you want 100% matching do the color charts and match to the output. Never match to something on screen.

[Stephen Morriss]

Get a pantone huey or their next higher monitor colour calibration unit, they do make a difference.
Did mine and thought it looked green at first but the output from the printer is close to the monitor.

I seem to remember you can get a macro off the web to print the Corel swatches, it takes the colours and fits them to a page and adds the cmyk value, I used it for corel 9 a few years ago but can’t find it now.

Do a google search on "corel macro print pallet" or something like that.

Steve

[Terje Fjulsrud]

Thanks for the macro tips !

Corel 13 Tools–>visual basic–>play
Select global macros and hit run
load the palette you would like to print. Hit ok. Done.

I can now print all the default corel palettes 🙂 I guess i wont be buying
a pantone swatch book when i can print my own 🙂

[Ian Bingham]

dont forget to turn off colour management in corel, screen should be a bit closer,
but rule is ignor screen and do a test print first!
Ian

[Terje Fjulsrud]

Thanks Ian.

I did know about this function.

When i have it on and with desktop printing profile, it actually came
really close to my print. 🙂 🙂

[Terje Fjulsrud]

ops.. i did not know about color managment…