Help with Black

[TheMattMan]

Hi all... I am having problems getting a true black to print on some material. It seems to be using all colors to produce black and making it sorta dk brown. Is there a way I can print only black.

Here is my setup:

Corel X3
Versaworks 2.x
Roland Sp-540v
Eco-Sol Max inks

Thanks in Advance.

Matt

 

[Techman]

yes, your printer will use all colors to make black. Check your color for rgb or cymk code and you will see it is not 100% pure black.
So set your codes to 100% black and see what happens.

 

[thewood]

Are you having this problem with raster or vector images?

 

[kalvix]

you may also need to print 25% c 25% m 25% y 75% k to get a nice rich black

 

[TheMattMan]

I checked my color and it is printing CMY at 0% and K at 100% and it is happening on Vector images.

 

[Shovelhead]

!!!

30% C
30% M
30% Y
100% K

 

[Checkers]

First, make sure you're using the right profiles for your image and media.
From there, I do what shovelhead does. It gives a great black without oversaturating the material.

Checkers

 

[WB]

C 60%
M 80%
y 0%
K 100%

 

[ezkimo]

where you select your profiles are there any advanced settings that let you print as PURE HUE ?

If you have it try to mark the black box in oure hue then the printer will print all blacks as blacs

 

[TheMattMan]

Thanks Shovel.. That helped. It only seems to happen when I am printing on the cheaper calendered stuff.. hi performance always looks how it should.