Printing RED on the HP

[dakotasignwerks]

Does any body out there have a good solid RED in CMYK that the HP Latex will print without being orange? I've tried several variations, and still just get something that resembles red, but is very orange. Using CorlDraw and Flexi HP for output. Thanks in advance

 

[Bly]

We get good reds on our 360s.
Weak reds usually mean your ink limit is too low.

 

[stealey]

a good red is usually around 0-100-100-0. if its coming out orange then id check your profile

 

[dypinc]

The easiest thing is to just create a new output profile. And, like Bly said make sure your ink density is high enough. I would start with 120%, and make sure your optimizer is set in your media preset to between 8 and 12.

 

[sonia]

Does any body out there have a good solid RED in CMYK that the HP Latex will print without being orange? I've tried several variations, and still just get something that resembles red, but is very orange. Using CorlDraw and Flexi HP for output. Thanks in advance

You can check this document: https://hplatexknowledgecenter.com/blog/reaching-more-vivid-colors-in-a-hp-latex-printer on the HP Latex Knowledge Center

 

[eahicks]

I have a few custom reds in my everyday color swatch. My main go to red is 10-100-85-10.

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

We seem to get the best reds we profiling without lc lm. The gain and grain is increasingly present but for solid color work its far more accurate and controllable.

 

[Santimus]

I made a new profile on mine with all ICC off and no color curve corrections. Ink limit at max. This prints pure color as seen on screen without the rip messing with it and I get some pretty nice reds. Still can't hit some pantones but its pretty close. This only works for vector though! BTW I'm using wasatch

 

[AF]

Here is a side by side comparison of a generic HP profile compared with a custom profile. Both used the same linearization. Ink limits and splits are per profile. Notice the orange looking red and lavender looking blue in the top generic profile. Lesson to be taken away is that you will be better served creating your own profiles.

 

[AKwrapguy]

Does any body out there have a good solid RED in CMYK that the HP Latex will print without being orange? I've tried several variations, and still just get something that resembles red, but is very orange. Using CorlDraw and Flexi HP for output. Thanks in advance

Why not use spot colors and use the color mapping function in Flexi to dial it in?

 

[RobMerkel]

We just bought a HP Latex 365 and I was struggling with the same problem, seems if you change the rendering intent in the advanced options of the colour management tab (in Flexi) to saturation rather than perceptual and use higher pass values it really helps deepen the reds. It's a bit of a brute force fix because it changes all the other colours as well but it works on both vector and raster files.