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Help! Greys look green!

BrentNaquin

New Member
Side note: I am colorblind.

Thank you all for your advice. I have gotten a lesser greenish grey by adjusting PF before print. Still a little green. Next I will try creating my own swatches and I believe I will also start designing in CMYK to help the rip process work less and be more accurate.

At this point I just tell customers grey looks green and try to prepare them. I don’t have the patience more the free time to block off my work flow to try and fix all of this companies problems. I have suggested hiring professionals, people who know what they are doing and they don’t want to pay. So their problem isn’t my problem until I have no other option. Right now, I just do what I can.
 

netsol

Premium Subscriber
"due to fellers support telling me that’s fine because these printers (mutoh Xpertjet) are just big desktop printers now."

in much the same way that elon musk's latest design is just like the bottle rocket i lit when i was 4 years old

fellers may give you a good deal from time to time, but, they should not be your source for technical support & engineering
 

unmateria

New Member
I have an xpertjet too, and believe me, u are loosing a lot of that machine without an x1. The built in profiles are too much ink conservative and u loosing loooot of gamut. If u like the black or red using that profiles on RGB ur mind will blow with an xrite. Dont loose time trying to save some dollars. An sprectro is a must have in any print shop.
 

netsol

Premium Subscriber
Yes! anyone who isn't building their own profiles is making excuses for a sickly RUST COLOR that should be a fire engine red

canned profiles can compensate for the range of variation in inks, substrates, etc, but couldn't POSSIBLY compensate for the condition of the printheads (and too many other variables to count) in YOUR PARTICULAR MACHINE
 
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Jharris81

New Member
So we bought a used printer that was very well taken care of and I had the same issue from the moment we bought it. Granted I basically knew nothing about large formate printing and all that goes along with it. I delt with it for years, hoping I wouldn’t get something that needed to be printed with a grey in it. This is what I did that eventually got me very close to repeatable grey with anything that I printed. I haven’t got a color correction profile done but eventually I will. Making sure all your heads are firing how they should I obviously essential. I’m not sure what printer you have but down to the resolution. I went into versaworks and adjusted the color curve to compensate for the green. Lots of videos on color curve on you tube, took me a little bit to get the hang of it but it fixed my issue. I went through every suggestion and information that I could find and this is what fixed my issue. Not sure if it’s a bandaid or it’s the actual fix but haven’t had issues since.
 
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