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Why can’t I print blue?
Morning all! Can anyone give a hint as to why the Mimaki won’t print a decent blue? For some reason it’s coming out purple.
I’m using Shiraz Rip. I’m printing onto Intercoat 9600 calendered wrap and have tried to find the profile with no joy. 👿 Wrong profile you might say but it’s doing it with vinyls that do have the correct profile.
Tried using Coral x3 and photoshop with no joy.Karl.
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Anyone? 😕
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is it a vector spot blue your trying to print Karl, or a bmp / jpeg?
try converting to a jpeg to see if it helps. if it does it’s a RIP problem
Ian
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Morning Karl..
Don’t know if it will help (Idon’t have vinyl printer) but once before my blues were looking purple on the screen and blues were printing out purple at one point on my normal inkjet.
Turned out to be colour mnanagement settings in Corel (tools – color management), no idea what they all do but I fiddled about and all came well in the end.
Sorry can’t be more help..
Ian :lol1:
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Thanks for trying Ian. The colour on the screen in coral is the correct blue.
When the Rip rips the file on screen the colour is fine. It’s just when it’s printed it goes purple. Time is running out on this job and I’m getting a bit stressed. 🙁The image has been sent as Tiff, Jpeg, EPS and PDF. All with different results but none correct.
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Mr. Rowland….Your a Mimaki Pro, any Ideas mate?
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morning karl
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Sent mate. 😉
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Tried printing a test page from the printer to see if Cyans slightly blocked?
I had a similar issue with Reds looking Pink, the Yellow was half blocked
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That’s all fine mate.
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message on the way back… basically u r printing purple mate.
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No Dave, the colour is called deep navy blue mate. Even the standard navy blue came out purple. I’m trying your suggestion you emailed me so I’ll get back to you. Cheers,
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lol…. deep navy is not a colour… it is a corel ‘word’
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actually going back to ur deep navy, it is made up of 40 % magenta and 40% cyan and 60% black… so it will tint towards purple
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Remember that chaps…..Blue in Corel is really Purple even though it looks like blue on my screen. And blue is supposed to be a calming colour. Yeah….right. 🙄 🙄 😕
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Porn filter on computer….blue films….i’ll get me coat…
One thing to try is printing a pantone chart then whichever one is printed in the right shade you are after, alter the thing you are printing to that. May look well out on screen but at least you know what you are going to get in the end.
Dave
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Cheers Dave. Mr. Rowland’s emailed one over so I’m trying it now.
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quote Karl Williams:Remember that chaps…..Blue in Corel is really Purple even though it looks like blue on my screen. And blue is supposed to be a calming colour. Yeah….right. 🙄 🙄 😕
you got a crap monitor then :lol1:
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Not that crap…..It says Deep navy Blue!!!!! Anyway it’s brand new. Cheeky g!t. 😎
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What are your settings in Corel’s colour manager? Viewing your colour split on my monitor c=40 m = 40 k = 60 it views as a muddy dark blue but with a definite tint towards purple. With the manager off it looks a rich blue so I think its colour manager setting in Corel
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Something that worked for us once was to send the job down in RGB rather than CMYK, had loads of gamut issues and then wammo – everything worked.
That was on Shiraz + JV3 – dont know if that helps (probably too late now!)
Oo
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