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HP Latex 1500 + Flexi, ICC?

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bigprinting_rgbg

New Member
Hello, we bought a used HP Latex 1500. It works great.
We use Flexi Production Manager 21 as our RIP.
The seller told me I don't need to set an ICC profile in the RIP. It's created by the printer. I created the color profile on the printer and imported it into the RIP (read the printer material list).
However, when I RIP the job with the created profile, the colors don't look quite right.

Does anyone have a tip?

Andi (the German boy)
 
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Jhake

Premium Subscriber
bigprinting_rgbg said:
Hello, we bought a used HP Latex 1500. It works great.
We use Flexi Production Manager 21 as our RIP.
The seller told me I don't need to set an ICC profile in the RIP. It's created by the printer. I created the color profile on the printer and imported it into the RIP (read the printer material list).
However, when I RIP the job with the created profile, the colors don't look quite right.

Does anyone have a tip?

Andi (the German boy)
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Jhake

Premium Subscriber
It sounds like you’re close, just missing one link in the color chain.

The HP Latex 1500 can generate its own ICC profiles, but they only stay accurate if you’re using the exact same substrate preset, pass mode, and ink limits that the profile was built with. Once you change media or print mode, the colors will shift.

Here’s what to do:
  1. Load the correct substrate preset on the printer (ideally an HP-certified one from the Media Locator).
  2. Run color calibration on that media before printing.
  3. In Flexi 21, open Job Properties, Color Management tab, check “Use Color Correction” and make sure your imported ICC is selected as the Output Profile.
  4. Double-check that Flexi’s source profile (like sRGB or AdobeRGB) matches your design file.
  5. Try a test print with the same pass mode used to build the profile don’t mix 6-pass vs 8-pass.
If you’re still off, grab the official ICC for your media from HP’s Media Solutions Locator or the manufacturer’s site. That usually fixes it.

Bottom line: the printer’s ICC helps, but Flexi still needs to use it correctly and everything must match; media, mode, and calibration.
 
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cornholio

New Member
1500 doesn't create ICC.
They are embedded in the OMS files you can download from media locator.
In the Rip you can synchronize to copy the ICC from the printer to the RIP.
 
balstestrat

balstestrat

Problem Solver
I just checked. There's 51 "frontlit" profiles in media locator for L1500.
Printer already has all the generics. Just do what you said in your first post, import it to flexi.
 
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