Are you using an HP latex machine? I had that problem with an bus I was doing last summer. Every section I printed was a different color orange but the same values. Drove us all nuts.only sort of related.... I had a fun head scratcher today. Printing a vehicle wrap, the background is orange and black - tiger stripes. Same background artwork for each side of the vehicle. I printed some of the parts, pulled it off, and continued printing some more. When I pulled that off and set it by the first round - the black was MUCH different - warmer, almost brown. not good.
I checked the files in illy, the black value was the same. I checked to make sure I didn't have a different RIP setting on the "bad" one - nope exactly the same.
I'm using Onyx, so I went into the job editor, color correction tab and use the color replacement tool to see what it had for black value. Low and behold the "bad" print had slightly different cmyk values in there. HOW?!
nope, this is what the panel is
Different pdf files?
they are actually Eps files. different artboards from the same document. I pulled the offensive file in again - same issue. I just used the color correction tool to make it the same values as the other files, but it's really weird. I still have several panels to print. You can bet that I will be checking each and every file before and during printing.Different pdf files?
My guess is one of the pdfs have an embedded profile in it.
I'd try to rip both again and see with the color value if it's different. If it is.mm it'd.be interesting if you post the files so others can try and diagnose it!
Weird problems like this fascinate me and I'd play around with it for hours until I figure it out
