Colors Blah??

[Jamie0075]

So I’m trying to print a company logo that was given to me and the colors are grainy... remember under my avitar it says newbie! Lol printing on a Roland vp540. Are these colors supposed to look this grainy? I’m not impressed. Printing on crappy orajet 5165 ra with the proper profile.. can anyone guide me a bit? I’ll even accept criticism with the responses. I can take it! Thank all!

 

[AF]

Canned profiles can do that. At the very least, linearize.

 

[KMC]

looks like the encoder strip needs a clean

 

[bob]

View attachment 133678 View attachment 133679 ... can anyone guide me a bit? I’ll even accept criticism with the responses. I can take it! Thank all!

You'll even accept criticism? Really? How is that your choice? What would you do if you didn't accept criticism?

As to your printing woes, to what are your rendering intents set?

 

[Solventinkjet]

It looks like you need to run the head alignments.

 

[ewded]

He's new guys, the first thing to check is Bidirection alignment. Print it in UNIDIRECTION if it looks good you can finish the job and spend some time later figuring out bidirectional settings for correct head alignment.

 

[Andy_warp]

Also check carriage height to media. If it's not alignments height can be the culprit.

 

[AKwrapguy]

It looks to me like you might be using the wrong profile for the wrong media. Often canned profiles need to be tweaked to suite your setup and environment. Other things to also check is the file and the colors.

 

[Jamie0075]

Thanks everyone! Seems my problem was with the heat .. the media profile wants the heat at 45 Celsius. I switched it to let the printer control the heat which is set at 35 Celsius ( not because I put it there trust me lol) seem to take out a lot of the fuzzy! I’ll keep playing with it to see if I can dial it in better . Thanks again!!

 

[Jamie0075]

 

[IsItFasst]

Also make sure the colors are RGB. At least in Flexi I have a lot of issues when the customer sends me a file where the colors are CMYK (since my profiles only print accurately using the RGB color pallet). But as others have said, the canned profiles are never perfect. So if it prints other stuff just fine (then it isn't the major issues others have suggested) I would focus on the profile.