printing bad colors

[dortonracing]

When i printing im getting a terrible looking print, Like if i print a red square it will have some really light black in it, not be like its suppose to be. What i did last night was pressed delete for a job and actually deleted the printer off So i tried resetting it like it was not sure if i got it right or something else is wrong, I also went ahead and cleaned it last night thought that might of been the problem but that wasn't it. This printer is like 4 weeks old so it still new. Any help would be great, Its a mutoh 1614 64" using flexiPRO with windows xp thanks

 

[bob]

What media are you printing?
What profile are you using?
To what are your rendering intents set?

 

[randya]

bob is correct, sounds like color management.

You can verifty that by printing some preripped files that have already been color managed:
http://www.mutoh.com/kb/entry/68/

 

[dortonracing]

using 3651
Profile is 3651
rendering intents? not sure what that is,
I will post a few pics in a few mins

 

[dortonracing]

in the last pic you can see how it did the stall and printed the same part twice, only does that everyonce in a while, but as for the bad colors its doing that all the time, Its has tiny white spots in it, has darker spots in it, has spots where it look like the ink got wet or something, Also if you look real close and hard you can almost see as if the white from the vinyl is coming through. thanks for any help,

 

[dortonracing]

couple more

 

[astro8]

Looks like you have no heaters, your media is covered in grease and your heads full of cleaning fluid....that's what it looks like but doubt that's what it is...(all 3)

Can you post a couple more pics?

 

[dortonracing]

here

 

[astro8]

Change the media and do a head clean and make sure your heaters are working and see what you get...that first pic looks like media contamination and no heat. 3rd pic looks like it has no heat and crap all over it as well

 

[dortonracing]

the heaters are working they are set up at 40,43,50 and you can fell them on, I will try to run a head clean again and unroll a big peice and try anyother print,

 

[schurms]

Hate to ask, but what brand of rip do you have ?

Bruce

 

[dortonracing]

using flexiPRO

 

[bob]

using 3651
Profile is 3651
rendering intents? not sure what that is,
I will post a few pics in a few mins

Who did the 3561 profile? where did you get it?

If you don't know what rendering intents are your really should learn before you run out and try to print something. When you figure out what and where they are, set everything but bitmap to 'No Color Correction'. Set bitmap to 'Perceptual"

 

[BadAss]

WOW,,, Bob you can sure make someone feel bad... I have been doing prints on our Mutoh for almost 2 years, and I can't tell you what rendering intents is.... So D.R. don't feel too bad.. But it looks like that media is contaminated. But what do I know???

 

[Allied Digital]

.... But it looks like that media is contaminated. But what do I know???

dito

 

[dortonracing]

I have tried to differnt medias and both of them did this? So im clueless, I have ran more prints just to make sure something wasn't in the ink but still doing this, Would this happen from not being clean enough? I have cleaned it.

 

[dbenec]

what are you using to 'clean the media' as you said?

 

[dortonracing]

i cleaned the printer not the media. my bad

 

[timson_ads]

Change the media and do a head clean and make sure your heaters are working and see what you get...that first pic looks like media contamination and no heat. 3rd pic looks like it has no heat and crap all over it as well

sir i have mutoh vj 1304 and im experiencing problem, it suddenly turn off while running the head cleaning and when i try to switch it on still there is no power.

 

[timson_ads]

can you helpme on this one please!!