PC-600 printing dark colors

[jhardy]

When printing, colors are much darker then what you see on screen. A default blue is almost a dark purple and red is dark orangish. How do I adjust the colors I am getting? A system test prints like this too so I dont think its in my software. I am using Flexi if that helps.

Also it looks like print is over lapping. Like an object will have a darker shaded line in the colors... whats this adjustment?

 

[CS-SignSupply]

Other than using Spot color settings, this is the very nature of that machine. A sample picture may also be helpful.

 

[J Hill Designs]

overlap problem would be some sort of print feed adjust - not familiar with the machine, but there is probably a setting somewhere....if it overlaps, up the % - if it shows white inbetween passes, lower it

 

[Mike Paul]

-Read up on rendering intent and try some changes in Flexi.
-Print out a color chart to select your colors from.
-Line pitch adjustment on the printer will help with your overlaps.

 

[jhardy]

Thanks for the help guys ... I'll scan in the test later to give a better idea

 

[Sign Works]

Mike Paul is correct.

You will get better print quality changing the default rendering intents, change vectors to "Spot Color" & bitmaps to "Relative Colormetric"

For color matching what I found useful was a downloadable CMYK color chart from Trumatch, it contains 50 basic colors. Print out a reference chart of these colors and create a swatch table from the file then design with the desired colors, you can tweak the colors from there but this is a good starting point. It's been quite some time so I do not recall the download link or where in the world I put the CMYK file but if you want I can e-mail you the Trumatch swatch table I created for Flexi, it also contains Roland spot colors (see pic).

PM me your e-mail address if you want the swatch table file and I should also be able to locate the Trumatch CMYK file as well.