Printed Color Vs Screen Color

[102RCR]

I know this is an on going thing and its driving me crazy. I have spent the last two days reading trying to figure this out to no avail.

recently we had printer problems so all kinds of changes were made. So many that today I reset everything and went back to factory defaults. My problem still lies here though.
on the screen a Forrest green is being printed as a lime green. pepsi blue on the screen prints purple.

Icc profile: Oracal 3551 720 x 720 graphics

FlexiSiGN & Print Sai Cloud.

Before all the issues the colors were relative and gave you a fair idea with out looking at a printed color swatch.

Thank you!

Edit: Also now every time we print something it prints a solid black line down the egdes....?

 

[AF]

Calibrate your display.

 

[102RCR]

AF thank you for responding. I have calibrated the display multiple different ways and have also switched out diplays. That's about the only change to the system that had been made before the issue until now. Even after doing a factory default on everything. It is still printing black line down the edges all of a sudden.

 

[shoresigns]

Just a guess, but try the same files in Illustrator and see how the colour looks compared with Flexi and your prints. One of the reasons we quit using Flexi years ago was the horrible on-screen colour reproduction.

 

[FrankW]

Activate "Soft Proof" in the View-Window. Before, select your output profile in the color settings.

 

[Baz]

At the very least you should have a printed color chart on any material you use.

 

[reQ]

Are you sure that you are not viewing file as CMYK & printing in RGB or vice versa?

 

[102RCR]

Rjpw it's on both our Mutoh 1204 and Mimaki JV33 Test prints look good. mutoh is missing a 2 or 3 on the black, Mimaki is perfect.

ShoreSigns. I will give that a try!

FrankW: Even with softproof selected it does the the same thing what looks blue (Royal Blue) prints purple. instance the profile color is C-80, M-0 ,Y-0, K-0 prints correctly as Baz has stated and matches the color chart and prints what its supposed to. On the screen, its looks light a neon or light green. The dilemma I'm having is sending proofs. I know how to get the color I'm trying to get. In the proof I send what the print is going to look like, then I have to go back and change every colour as what they think is a blue is really a purple.

Req. We print everything CMYK. Our Racecar wraps we use the default 3551G Profile. Graphics2 720 x 720 Color Mode CMYK-Variable Dot. Dither- Error Diffusion and color mapping checked.

Thank you for the replies, suggestions and help!

 

[GoodPeopleFlags]

Do Pantone colors look correct on the screen but print wrong? Or the other way around?

 

[Drip Dry]

Mark Rugen has some videos about this on givemehelp.com.

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

Rjpw it's on both our Mutoh 1204 and Mimaki JV33 Test prints look good. mutoh is missing a 2 or 3 on the black, Mimaki is perfect.

ShoreSigns. I will give that a try!

FrankW: Even with softproof selected it does the the same thing what looks blue (Royal Blue) prints purple. instance the profile color is C-80, M-0 ,Y-0, K-0 prints correctly as Baz has stated and matches the color chart and prints what its supposed to. On the screen, its looks light a neon or light green. The dilemma I'm having is sending proofs. I know how to get the color I'm trying to get. In the proof I send what the print is going to look like, then I have to go back and change every colour as what they think is a blue is really a purple.

Req. We print everything CMYK. Our Racecar wraps we use the default 3551G Profile. Graphics2 720 x 720 Color Mode CMYK-Variable Dot. Dither- Error Diffusion and color mapping checked.

Thank you for the replies, suggestions and help!

Even if you calibrate your screen, so the screen looks exactly like your prints, as soon as you send it to the customer and they open it on their screen it's going to be different. You would have to calibrate yours and every customers screen for this to work. That is why when you send a proof you note the specific CYMK build or the specific pantone color that each color is and have a stated. Colors may appear different on screen.