Fw: Onyx Postershop 5 is printing too light
Fw: Onyx Postershop 5 is printing too light
- Subject: Fw: Onyx Postershop 5 is printing too light
- From: "Peter Merck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:43:03 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Merck" <email@hidden>
To: "Hi Rez Digital Imaging" <email@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Onyx Postershop 5 is printing too light
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> One of my customers is profiling their 6 color Roland Inkjet running the
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> Onyx PosterShop 5.0 Rip on a satin proofing stock. They're using a
leading
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> 3rd party profiling software with a Gretag Spectrolino. The profile
looks
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> fine but when they use the new profile to print, the output is printing
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very
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> light and washed out evenly in all colours. It seems like the Rip is
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having
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> two profiles transforming the colour instead of just the one we made. We
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> have checked the Rip settings to ensure this is not the case but we
can't
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> find anything noticeably wrong.
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> If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Dear Glenn
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What are the ink restrictions numbers used for the material and what is
the
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ink limit number used?
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Sounds like not enough ink if being used for that material. IOW glossy
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paper uses less ink than matte.
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What are they selecting in their ink/material settings. Such as a 'Dye'
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family setting and a material within the 'Dye' setting.
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Postershop does use 2 profiles to print with; one input and one output.
The
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output profile if the one you've created for the material/ink combination.
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The input profile should match the profile of the incoming file, if the
file
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doesn't have one use a matchprint or US sheet fed profile (from Photoshop)
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or even the default input profile would work as a starting point.
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Have they gone through the whole dark resrtiction/linearization/ ink limit
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procedure?
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If they load the new roland profile into Photoshop, what does the 'convert
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to profile' change look like? Does the image get lighter like the print?
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What information in the profile are you looking at that gives the
indication
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the profile 'looks fine'?
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With some of the above questions answered we narrow down the problem.
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Pete Merck
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