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Seramark profile for VS540
Hi Everyone, I have a VG300 printer and have been using the MVCP proflie to print seramark material. I just purchased a VS540 printer and am noticing that the MVCP profile does not seem to work as well for the seramark media.
My colors do not seem to be as vibrant and the colors are dull and seem several shades lighter than the 300 printer. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions about which profile would work best for the new printer.
I normally use versaworks colors, although some colors are CMYK.
Any help would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Glenys
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on -
I can't tell from what you wrote; so, did you print the same designs with the same VersaWorks settings on both the VG300 and the VS540 and get different results?
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Permalink Reply by CYW on -
Probably has nothing to do with your problem, but I have to ask..........
Why are you using a CMYK (limited) palette?
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Permalink Reply by Glenys Hibbitt on
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I generally use the Versaworks colors, but at times, a normal CMYK color seems to work the best. I print a lot of dark brown and the CMYK color I use is a good shade of brown and prints fine.That is what I meant by limited palette. I guess I did not explain that very well in my previous post.
Glenys
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Permalink Reply by Glenys Hibbitt on
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Yes I am using the same files and the same settings on both printers, but with different results. The 300 colors are vibrant and the 540 colors are dull and the colors actually printed are lighter in shade as well.
Glenys
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Permalink Reply by Glenys Hibbitt on
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I always use PrePress, but am having my son try the MaxImpact to see if that helps. The new printer is at his house which makes it harder to figure out. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Permalink Reply by irving donaldson on -
Ensure your color management is the same but more important - if you are using Roland's palette ensue you have the spot color boxes check in versaworks under the file format tab. Without that your spot colors are not changing to process colors.
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Permalink Reply by Glenys Hibbitt on
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Have checked Versaworks and the spot color boxes are checked. The new printer is at my son's house, so it is harder for me to figure out what is wrong. I am having him change to Max Impact to see if that makes a difference. I wasn't expecting to have color issues like this, although I realize that the ink is laid down differently with the new printer.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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geez, Glenys, we're as opposite as 2 people can be
99.9% of the time, I use MaxImpact with RGB or Spot colors
The only time I switch to PrePress is if we have a lot of rasters or gradients/transparencies in the file
Prepress will help soften the subtle color changes
I could probably count the times (on one foot) that I've ever used a CMYK color
Interesting, isn't it?
Two users with two totally different workflows
Irv, I'm curious........do all these different VERSACAMM machines handle ink/color differently?
I find this fascinating
Except for this current issue Glenys is having, she was doing things one way..........and obviously getting good results. And here I am doing things completely differently and am also happy with the results I'm getting
How does that work?
'splain to me Lucy? I would really like to understand
Lady Di
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Permalink Reply by Glenys Hibbitt on
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Would love to know how we do things so differently and get both get good results. I am interested, though, in trying maximpact to see if I get better color from the new printer. Funny thing is that just yesterday I printed using RGB by mistake and got a really dull red instead of a bright hot pink. Weird!!
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