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New to 310 and Flexi calibration

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iladi

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Hi,

yesterday I was starting to print with my new 310 printer and have some questions:

when using Flexi, what is the correct profiling procedure?

i was trying three ways and all give me pinkish neutrals:

1. loading media, select PAPER, doing internal calibration (the 2 steps I can do with 310) and then start a color calibration in Flexi, but skip ink limits skip linearization and only build the ICC = pinkish

2. doing internal calibrations (the 2 steps) and then in Flexi redone the ink limits and linearization and gray balance, ICC = pinkish

3. load media, no internal calibration in the printer and done a regular color calibration in Flexi. Something better but not quite perfect.

What am I doing wrong?

Adrian
 
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bigsign

New Member
hp 310

We had the HP tech help us with the setup. You should have received all day training with your new printer.
 
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iladi

New Member
Yeah, yesterday must have been to excited (new toy) or to tired. Today I have done two calibrations that match spot the ones I have on the same media printed on Roland.

So, all good now:rock-n-roll:


All in all a good printer as far as I can see in 2 days (yes already jump to conclusions but I had Epson, Canon, Roland Mutoh as well, so not quite a greenhorn). The only major flaw is the absence of a sheet cutter. Come on HP, it was only a few euros.
 
iceon

iceon

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I had color issues with my 310. Red would be orange. Techs worked on it for a week they couldn't figure it out. After they left for the day. I changed my flexi colors to all 3M colors and it printed perfect. Haven't had an issue since.
 
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r2prints

New Member
iceon said:
I had color issues with my 310. Red would be orange. Techs worked on it for a week they couldn't figure it out. After they left for the day. I changed my flexi colors to all 3M colors and it printed perfect. Haven't had an issue since.
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Not to threadjack, but I am also a new owner of a 310 (almost a month now)

I setup profiles with the tech and my reds, greens, yellows, blacks, grays, and oranges are dead on. I primarily print on very high gloss media. I am designing in Illustrator (RGB) and saving as a PDF and printing through the included Flexi HP edition. After printing countless calibrations and swatches, the only color I have a problem hitting is a nice royal blue. It always seems to shift purple, even at 100C and 50M with some K mixed in (If I design in CMYK) I have recently just got it pretty dialed by switching the rendering intent to Perceptual within Flexi. This is also using an RGB colorspacs and using 255B.

Is this a fix that anyone else has had to do? It's a little annoying that I have to change the rendering intent on every job I import. Any insight would be appreciated.

As for the OP, I am getting great colors with no shifts at 100% ink 10 pass with stock HP profiles for both gloss and matte media. If you are designing in RGB, I have noticed that you have to lighten up the colors a bit. For example, my printed "bright green" has to be borderline yellow in Illustrator. This is without monitor calibration.
 
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iladi

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Very pleased with my color now, but not so pleased about the speed: it is almost half of the speed HP claims in the specifications.

A 15 meter by 0.6 meter SAV job prints about 5 square meter per hour 10 passes/110 ink limit quitefar from 9 sq meters per hour claimed :(
 
tooth63

tooth63

New Member
What did you figure out?

iladi said:
Yeah, yesterday must have been to excited (new toy) or to tired. Today I have done two calibrations that match spot the ones I have on the same media printed on Roland.

So, all good now:rock-n-roll:


All in all a good printer as far as I can see in 2 days (yes already jump to conclusions but I had Epson, Canon, Roland Mutoh as well, so not quite a greenhorn). The only major flaw is the absence of a sheet cutter. Come on HP, it was only a few euros.
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What was your process to do the calibrations with Flexi? Did you do them on the printer or Flexi?
 
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iladi

New Member
I do all the steps in Flexi.

Start a new media on the printer and set driver options: pass count and ink limit to the max allowed to that pass, vacuum etc.

In Flexi i start a regular color calibration based on the new created media (no color corection selected on the media).

So far I manage to profile this way, SAV, paper, canvas similar with my Canon and Roland.
 
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