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When printing anything below any Cyan below Pantone 299C, the color goes from being near perfect to being very faded. Everything else looks fantastic.

Hire a pinstripe guy for an hour and have him lay the knifeless tape. I've watched a good pinstriper lay down a perfectly level line down the side of a curvy car in about 5 minutes while talking on a cellphone with it pinched between ear and shoulder. When you do something for long enough, you...

Here are more images comparing pantone process colors to the base CMYK I'm getting out of the printer. Don't ask me why when I upload them they rotate randomly... they look perfect before I attach them to the site.

Opened the file in the rip and printed like I would any normal graphic, rather than using the "Print a Test Image" dialog in the media manager.

Correct, now the print looks great printed through the RIP normally. Not sure why it is rotating the image, it's landscape on my computer & phone.

Here is that printout. It looks odd to me in a few areas. In particular, it seems like it isn't using enough black in the photos, which makes the contrast very poor. The areas where it prints solid black however look perfectly fine.

I have created a new test file with 298C, which looks the same as the other test samples. I have not seen a change in how it prints that color on IJ180C. The color is faded and the print itself appears splotchy in even a 4" test square, so on an 8ft column, I would not think it would have an...

1) I am aware of these media channels. 5 of them were set up before I was hired, but we rarely use anything but the #5 channel for printing vinyl. I would say 3M IJ180c V3 is at least 75% of what we print, and on the off chance we print on another vinyl, this channel is still used. The channel...

The Oracal sample was printed with the 3M IJ180C Profile. I did not want to change anything at all other than the physical media, in order to narrow in on what the issue might be. I agree it sounds like something with the media, but across 3 separate rolls, and limited to only cyan?

No, those numbers are the lot numbers written inside the rolls of media. All samples were printed within an hour or so of each other, after doing a manual and automatic cleaning on the machine and verifying that the nozzle check was good. so far as the first print being misprinted - only in...

Correct Andy. 1. This was actually printed just over 1 month ago, but I left the files in the print que because we knew there was a good chance that panels would need to be re-wrapped after coming back from the trade show. The setup/takedown crews are pretty hard on the booths. 2. The files...

The 3" x 4" color swatches? I didn't think it would be possible to even see the pantone swatch if I was pulled back far enough to show them all. I simply took a picture where part of the latest 3M swatch, along with the pop-up banner swatch, and the previously wrapped column were all in frame...

Is there a tool you suggest? X-Rite sells so many with overlapping feature sets, I'm not 100% sure which is the go-to one for media profiling.

Here is a photo with the chart. I've auto color corrected this one in photoshop to give a more fair representation of the actual color vs just being a side by side. I put the pantone color between the last 3m sample and the pop-up banner sample, and tried to overlap with the original print. The...

Nozzle test pattern is near perfect - just a tiny deflection on black head 1, but this color uses no black, and it is never visible in any prints regardless. Hardware / Software configuration: Printer: Epson Surecolor S50675 - Dual CMYK setup Rip: Onyx Gamaprint (Onyx 11) Media: 3M IJ180c V3...

That is actually a good point. Our building is a bit drafty, so with the humid summer weather the environmental conditions are less than ideal, though I would think fairly consistently so. Did you find a solution to your issue? Perhaps a dehumidifier or something would help?

You know.. that is probably information people would need! Surecolor S50675 - Onyx Gamaprint Rip (Think it is based on Onyx 11?) Printing on IJ180C V3. I've tried multiple rolls and have switched inks. Really every color seems fine other than when we try to print a less than 100% cyan.

If money isn't an issue, but space is... can you not rent additional space? Trying to find a small wide format printer that can handle all of those media requirements is difficult at best, if not impossible. Flatbed UV would be my go to personally, or that new HP flatbed once some other people...

This is the 2nd job recently where a previously printed job needed repairs after coming back from a show, and when I opened up the previously ripped job that was still in the print que (ie: zero changes to print media, print profile, or media selection) and the colors are coming out totally...

4100?! Trying to remember when those were made. I'm guessing the transmission protocol is either semaphore or smoke signals.