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Can someone help me please? trouble with colors

Good afternoon,

I have two banners to do and the colors are coming out nothing like they should, I just downloaded the profile colors (guess that is what it is called) into corel, printed out the color chart, but I could not hit the ok button for banner so I just printed as whatever it was on, vinyl I guess. Anyways, the colors do not appear to be the same as on my screen. I can take pic and show you but my question is.

Is there anyone that could open these files that has a color chart and tell me which colors to use to make them print the correct color? I really have to get these banners done and have never run into this problem before, guess it would happen when it is a last minute thing.

I have a perfect nozzle check also

Thanks so much

Teresa

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Permalink Reply by John Hyde on January 18, 2012 at 8:11pm

You don't have to print out the entire color chart just pick out what seems to be close make some squares in corel or whatever,pop your colors in the boxes hit preserve icc profiles in quality tab, color management then print on a sample of your banner material if it doesn't hit try it again there has to be something close in the roland library. the heck with the monitor look at your prints. It's just a wing it but it may get you out of a jam. Green in your greys means there is a problem with the CMYK mix, greys are hard to hit especially with different lighting, sun or florescent makes a big difference.

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Permalink Reply by Ray on January 18, 2012 at 8:51pm

Roland had a webinar the 17th on CorelDraw and Versaworks. They said you should be using the RGB color palette in Coreldraw when using Versaworks. Versaworks will do the color conversion to the printer correctly. The other option is to use the Roland Color Library palette in CorelDraw. When you print the Roland Color Library chart through Versaworks on your vinyl you will then know the exact color to use in CorelDraw. CorelDraw has different color management settings for X5 and any version below that. X5 has the Roland Color Library palette included. To print the Versaworks color chart you need to first change the queue default to be the vinyl you are going to print on. That is the only place to select it.

Hope this helps a little,

Ray

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Permalink Reply by Admin on January 19, 2012 at 5:41am

Teresa - post your files - the corel files - heere so we can look at those. Also if you have not checked the box in versaworks undef file format in the settings are to convert spot colors, it will not convert the roland spot color s and it will not print correctly. there ae many items to working with roland spot colors that must be done to get a correct print.

Have you watched the video on this forum walking through the process? Here is a link for you: http://myversacamm.com/video/roland-spot-colors-and-versaworks-sett...

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Permalink Reply by Teresa martin on January 19, 2012 at 6:01am

Thanks, I will try to login to the computer at the shop and upload but it is really slow since I have wifi here in the woods (all we can get) so I may have to wait until I get there before I can upload but I will try. I even changed the colors to where there is no fill but I just cannot get the colors. Will try in just a minute. If it does not upload right away it is because it was going so slow and I had to wait until I get to my shop after my meeting.

Thanks again for all the help

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Permalink Reply by Teresa martin on January 19, 2012 at 6:04am

Here is one file

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buckeye_honda[1].cdr, 22 KB

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Permalink Reply by Teresa martin on January 19, 2012 at 6:06am

Here is the other image, there are both images on this one because I had sent it to myself so I would have both files to work with on the computer

Thanks again

Attachments:

mirrorscapes[1].cdr, 266 KB

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Permalink Reply by Admin on January 19, 2012 at 6:47am

Teresa - none of the colors you have in the file are Roland spot colors. I see CMYK values but no spot colors. I would recommend printing that chart and using a color from it or printing the chart attached and using some of the values from it.

Here is a link to the chart for RGB: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18923867/rgb_color_chart/rgb_color_chart.eps

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Permalink Reply by CYW on January 19, 2012 at 1:00pm

Teresa, not that this is going to help much at this point.............but I thought I'd throw this information out for what it's worth.

I just printed your file on my Versacamm

I didn't change a thing....I didn't even fool with the CMYK colors...........which you can see from most of the information you recieved.......SHOULD BE AVOIDED like the plague

(Personally I NEVER use the limited CMYK palette unless absolutely necessary....sort of like this necessity you have here.......with a time crunch)

Anyway, I first printed from my desktop then made a copy on my VC

There was no major difference....except for that one piece of grey in the upper right part of the Honda logo.....which is to be expected with trying to print grey with CMYK

Again, I didn't do anything special and I didn't change any of the default settings I have in place.

This tells me that the problem is on your end somewhere. Like I asked previously, you've got something mucked up in your Corel CM, your export filter or your CM settings in Versaworks

Too late for this project, I'm sure, but if you're interested in getting this issue straightened out, which I'm assuming you would, I'd recommend that you sit down and take screen shots of all your setting dialog boxes or watch a few videos regarding CM to see where you might be missing the boat.