mjohnsonsa
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I have an HP Latex 315 with Flexi 19 RIP. Problem is Black looks brown. I am running my test prints at 14-Pass, 130 saturation on 4-mil laminate vinyl. Here is what I have done. Any help figuring this out would be appreciated as I have wasted lots of time on the issue:
1. Black looks great on the test plot created by the "color correction" print utility.
2. Black looks great when running the "test print" on the Output Profile
^^^ Those above test tell me it is not something with the ink, printheads, media, etc. So must be software/RIP/profile problem?
3. I created a black box in illustrator, output it as RGB, then CYMK, then with default black, then with 60/40/40/100 rich black. All these variations still printed brown.
4. I did all the same as above but in FlexiPrint thinking it could be an illustrator issue (in illustrator I tried outputting with ICC profile and without ICC profile). All from Flexi still were brown.
5. I created a custom ICC profile from scratch and the black looked really good on the test plot when doing a test print from the profile creation screen but not from printing files.
6. I tried various input profiles (GRACO.., SWOP v2.0, etc.) but still brown
I did end up finding a work around but I don't like it and it does not figure out the real problem. I can go into the print job and go to the 'Color Management' tab and select "No Color Correction" and then my blacks look great when printing the same files that looked brown when printing with color correction enabled.
So the problem appears to be related to the Output Profile right? since selecting no output profile fixed the issue? what doesn't make sense though is why the test plot blacks look good on that same output profile when going in and printing a test plot but bad when using that same output profile in a print job.
TIA
1. Black looks great on the test plot created by the "color correction" print utility.
2. Black looks great when running the "test print" on the Output Profile
^^^ Those above test tell me it is not something with the ink, printheads, media, etc. So must be software/RIP/profile problem?
3. I created a black box in illustrator, output it as RGB, then CYMK, then with default black, then with 60/40/40/100 rich black. All these variations still printed brown.
4. I did all the same as above but in FlexiPrint thinking it could be an illustrator issue (in illustrator I tried outputting with ICC profile and without ICC profile). All from Flexi still were brown.
5. I created a custom ICC profile from scratch and the black looked really good on the test plot when doing a test print from the profile creation screen but not from printing files.
6. I tried various input profiles (GRACO.., SWOP v2.0, etc.) but still brown
I did end up finding a work around but I don't like it and it does not figure out the real problem. I can go into the print job and go to the 'Color Management' tab and select "No Color Correction" and then my blacks look great when printing the same files that looked brown when printing with color correction enabled.
So the problem appears to be related to the Output Profile right? since selecting no output profile fixed the issue? what doesn't make sense though is why the test plot blacks look good on that same output profile when going in and printing a test plot but bad when using that same output profile in a print job.
TIA
