Mimaki CJV130 printing too dark (especially blues and night scenes) – RasterLink or Export fix?

[afro02]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a permanent solution to a color accuracy issue I'm having with my Mimaki CJV130.

The printer is outputting images and vectors much darker than they appear in the design file. For example, dark blues often print almost completely black, and nighttime photos lose all their detail.

My current workaround: Right now, I have to drop the opacity/transparency of the design down to 70% or 85% in my design software just to get the print to look like the original file.

My setup:

• Printer: Mimaki CJV130
• RIP Software: RasterLink
• File Formats: EPS for vectors, TIFF for raster images

Is there a way to fix this directly in the export settings of my design software, or via a setting/profile adjustment inside RasterLink itself so I don't have to keep manually altering my design files?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Solventinkjet]

Have you messed with any of the color settings in the past? Maybe some sort of saturation setting got set too high and saved as a default. I'd try a different profile first. The one you're using might just be heavily saturated. If multiple profiles don't work, it's got to be some other color settings messing things up. Show an example if you can.

 

[afro02]

First one is CorelDraw, the second is Illustrator and Photoshop they use the same settings, I haven't change nothing I usually work with these settings, earlier when I didn't have a printer I used to print at some other local shops they all had the same issue, I guess the Mimaki itself has this more vibrant colors settings than they usually are in the design. That's why I asked if anyone has been through this.