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why does the black look washed out on a sp-300v?
Hi All,
I’m now the proud owner of one new SP-300v. Awesome piece of kit and am thoroughly enjoying the learning curve 🙂 There is however one thing I can’t seem to cure…
Whenever I print solid black it appears somewhat dithered (to the eye its a small difference and would most likely fool somebody not looking for it) and not a true solid. For instance if I print a small black rectangle with registration marks I can defo see a difference in the black between the rectangle and the reg marks…
I’m using illustrator to prep things and am working in CMYK mode so theres no colour space conversion etc. I’ve tried high quality in the Veraworks RIP with no joy and am using the correct profile for the material which is MetaMark MD5-100.
Any ideas at all?
Pete
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6 Replies
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dont know versaworks, but most rips have a setting to print black as black, or preserve black, not cymk, alternatively set your black as K 100
M40 C40 Y0 in the cymk pallette and use that.
I could be completely wrong, but it works for mePeter
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Cheers Pete,
K was at 100% but rest where at 0%, is that not classed at pure black? Your post sparked me off having a look at some of the the other illustrator swatches included with Versaworks and what do you know theres a lovely one with what do you know a lovely black. Came out perfecto!
Out of interest Versaworks owners is this a normal workflow? I mean to ‘recolour’ the artwork using the Versaworks swatches in illustrator?
Sorry for the simpleton questions, finding me feet 🙂
Ta
Pete
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hi if your using versa works add the roland colour pallet and use those colours, works very well and I also use md5
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Thanks Richard, tried that and works a treat. Am I right in saying its common practice to change the colour’s of customers artwork to match the Roland Palette ?
Ta Pete
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customers art work is not always (never ) as you want it so if unsure ask for a print out from them that they think is correct, or do them a sample.
and wait for the comments.chris
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hi pete as your printing on MD5 there is no need to print a chart as you can get a colour swatch book from metamark printed on MD5 I then change pantones etc to match, after printing for a year I find this works well for me.
rich
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