Versacam print color does not match file color?

[Fredrik]

its a VersaCamm btw :lol1:

[Bill Dewison]

I know this may sound daft, but could you not convert the .eps file to a .jpg file?

Cheers, Dewi

[Fredrik]

Dont know if i can keep the cutline if i do that.

[Shane Drew]

quote Fredrik:

Hello,

Ive got a problem, the printed colors does not match the original color when i print an .eps file, but when i print a .jpg its spot on.

Anyone got any idea on how i can fix this?

Hi mate,

If you print a jpg with an rgb profile, you’ll get the best result. If you print a jpg as a cmyk, your colours will be off.

The eps is probably originally a cmyk image as the graphiv industry use eps as a cmyk by default.

By saving an eps cmyk, as a jpg, your program will convert it to rgb automatically unless you specify it otherwise.

If you are printing the eps as an rgb file, try printing it as a cmyk.

It could be any number of other resons too, but this is the most common from experience.

Cheers

[Martin Pearson]

Dont own a printer myself Fredrik so probably not much help but are both the files either RGB or CMYK, if they are both different then the colours wont be the same.

[Tim Painter]

What original colour ???? On what ???

ah the sign Industry having the fun the Print Industry has been trying to sort for ages while they throw away there cromalins and go digital.

To be spot on you need your system calibrated. All input and output devices. May look great on screen then gastly when you print it.

Had a good litho print job from a potential new client today so helpful, Quoting RGB colours for the job. So I had to explain CMYK and Pantone spot colours to him also adding that Word & Publisher were Mr Gates invention not a Printers.

Tim.

[Fredrik]

I tried to print a logo in blue for a flower shop here in town but as vivid said it looked good on the monitor but gastly in print. I even tried different PMS colors but no one looked like i wanted to.
But a little fix and trix sorted it out so the customer is satisfied with the print. I’m using Corel 9 now so i think it might be time to upgrade to 11 or 12 don’t know which one to choose and maybe upgrade the rip to 2.1. But if i want to calibrate the two together how do i do it the best?

[Vitor Brito]

Hi Fredrik,
well my experience tells me that the post from dsi is right on the spot, if you are handling diferent color profiles, you should expect diferent output colors, just check it, meanwhile dont forget you got a CMYK printer so it would be better if you calibrate all your software and your monitor to emulate CMYK colors, u needed to be more specific soo i could help a bit more with calibration, by the way if you are using EPS on CorelDraw, that maybe an issue as well, if the original file wasn’t CDR, why? well can’t explain u but i’ve been long hours around that issue and sometimes it works great sometimes don’t, even beginning with same file and repeating all steps. You can try to do it as a PDF and see if u can solve your problem, worked for me several times and you won’t loose the cutline (don’t forget always to check wich color profile you are using).
About upgrading Corel well it worth the shot! However don’t forget to ask your manufacturers, if there were any related problems with drivers and related stuff, at least specially with cutters i know some people whom had (still have with some old equipments) a lot of problems when upgrading above CDR9.

Meanwhile, just go to your Corel Menu and look for Color Management and check your settings, maybe you are using RGB profile in Corel. Try work around profesional output and desktop printing or do your own profile 🙂 , Adobe Gamma would be a good place to start your monitor calibration.

Hope i had understood your doubts, as i said before my english isn’t very good. Hope i helped i some way just let us know!

Cya
Britchenko

[Rodney Gold]

Try this.
In Corel convert the JPG graphic to CMYK (leave the cut lines as vectors) and then export as an EPS (PS3 of you can otherwise normally)
Corel 9 is not a great package for the versacam , try 11 or 12 , it exports etc a lot better and handles colour well.
You can actually SEE what you are getting in the RIP assuming you are using Colorip. When your graphic loads in the RIP assuming you have a sort of reasonable monitor that is a little calibrated , the colour you see on screen is normally close to the colour you get. If you go to colour and want to adjust the curves , the little window shows you as you are adjusting what you will get (you can drag the lillt window a lot bigger) and once you save the new profile , the colours in the main window are updated.