Recent content by Mark Mooney

Well, my printer seems to think otherwise, lol. The printer even has the option for specifically creating a new SAV backlit profile that allows for heavier saturation. From what I understand you are correct that certain backlits, porous vinyls like window perf, and some fabrics won't allow you...

Yep, that's exactly what I did. I created a new generic backlit profile on a different 60" wide but similar material to the 27" wide backlit vinyl I needed calibrated. Happy to say my control print color came out great that's very close to previous prints! So, that's my new backlit profile...

Another option WAS creating a new profile from the RIP, using the Latex 360's built in spectrophotometer, supposed to work on media small as 24". Flexi provides a way to do that, but unfortunately the program crashes and the 1500 swatch print that's made during ICC profile creation fails at...

So, I've been able to create my own profiles from scratch with great success and perfect color. The problem now is I'm unable to create a new substrate profile on any material less than 50" width. The latex 360 will scale down the color calibration chart (step 2) that prints all 6 colors, but...

I had a very similar issue on my HP Latex 360 with a different error also caused by a corrupted profile from the vinyl manufacturer. I downloaded and installed a profile for a new backlit material and it printed very oddly with a red color shift even after the first calibration. I ran...

I have been doing this regularly the last 2 years I've had the latex printer and have NEVER had problems getting good consistent and accurate color until after the SMK3 install. I can still get the same consistent colors from before, just only with my newly created profiles.

Oh yeah... I even have the B&H service tech's cell #, but he's on the road and told me to call HP. You already guessed how that's going. They opened a ticket and I haven't heard squat back in over 2 days. I even called my rep at Lexjet because they have several printer techs that do all their...

Do you mean under the Image Quality Maintenance > Calibration > Rest to Factory when you say "delete the color reference?" If so, that's been done and did nothing to improve color using the old substrate presets. Otherwise, there is no option to delete the color reference.

FYI, this is only valid for Latex 360 and higher models because they have a built in spectrophotometer... On the printer, go into Substrate Library, pick a substrate type like SAV, tap on New SAV Profile, enter the exact same settings from the old profile you're recreating, name it, run...

I tried reset to factory under calibration as suggested, still didn't work, colors still shift blue. It's definitely not the printheads... like I mentioned, I can create new substrate profiles from scratch and they print perfectly. I appreciate the suggestions, but I've already rebuilt most...

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

OK, poor choice of wording on my part... I'm specifically talking about the substrate specific profiles that are loaded on the printer, not ICC profiles embedded in images from Photoshop. And I know you don't calibrate the profile, rather you calibrate the printer. Right, in theory, but that's...

I understand the old profiles are now "outdated" with the new state of the printer, but I still don't understand why those old canned profiles won't recalibrate to the new state of the machine. Creating new profiles is not difficult, just extremely time and material consuming. I'd prefer to...

I had the Service Maintenance Kit #3 performed on my Latex 360 a month ago by a Bell & Howell service tech. Since then, all the profiles I’ve downloaded from Lexjet and HP and have been using the last 2 years with great color results, and no matter the substrate or profile I try, the overall...

I also ended up using my 17 year old jigsaw with a fine-tooth blade... I sent the rotary saw back, it was too hard to control cutting through the thick plastic ribs of the 10mm coroplast, a machine controlling it would work, thus a CNC cutter. I had a lot of straight lines, sharp angles and...