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When black isnt black and the Roland Library Prints rubbish
Hi
Teething problems with VP300
So I printed the colour chart from Versaworks and it has come out bad. The blacks are spidering, like too much ink has been laid down and then the head is just scrapped the black before its dry. The the pastel colours or shades of colour are very pixelated. The deep colours are fine through and very vibrant
I am currently using generic vinyl 1 profile
In addition to this if I attempt to use "sign and display" or "maximpact", the blacks also seem to spider
So I made myself a logo and used the Roland colour System library’s black and that has really bad spidering as well. I changed this black to the CMYK black in the default swatch in Illustrator and the back was purple grey 😮
I then changed the black to RGB Black from the swatch and it comes out black with no spidering!
I have currently got convert to spot colour check box checked in the queue settings
Any Ideas, Profile perhaps? I would have thought that using the Roland System Library colours would render properly.
Cheers Last post this week I promise 😳
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8 Replies
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maybe you have to use another profile, whats your vynil brand??
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Yeah
I use graphityp so I have to find the profile for the right vinyl
Only the zip file for the profile on their website is corrupt
Cheers
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Try Metamark md5 profile … We find it solves most problems
Cheers
Gary
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quote Gary Birch:Try Metamark md5 profile … We find it solves most problemsCheers
Gary
Would agree with Gary, used this on our older SP540 running compatible inks and it made a massive improvement in colour reproduction and general quality.
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Hi and cheers
Should I use the normal profiles or the RIPC profiles or try both
Cheers
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RIPC will help minimise banding so that would be the better one to try (in my opinion anyway)
Andy
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Ok thanks Andy I will give it ago
Paul
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OK folks
Still having a few issues and I am aware that I will need a new black head (see attached test print). However I still unsure about why the black is spidering when I use the Roland Colour System Library.
I can only get reasonable quality prints when I print in high quality and use only the RGB black in Illustrator. If I do there is no spidering but the black isnt really jet black if you know what I mean.
In fact all colours are slightly washed out. You can also see that the Roland colour system charts have serious banding and spidering on the blacks. Oddly the banding seen here is only on the shades, whereas the pure colours are very good.
I have tried the metemark md5 profile as I was unable to find the Grapityp profile and that made no difference. The green and black AG sticker is the best I can get and this is using the generic vinyl 1 at high quality setting on PrePress US
The street decals sticker shows the spidering when using the Roland Colour System black. This also happens when I use sign & Display and Max impact.
My thoughts on this is if it were dues to the black head then it would happen on all settings and colour choices and it doesnt. If I use the stand black swatch from illustrator the blacks do not spider
Will get to the bottom of this soon 🙂
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