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SignsNow...139 Thanks! Direct print on backlit fabric...the 50 footers give me (more) gray hairs! Obviously I was proud of this one. :)

Other culprits I've seen for this are: -air in the system -media slippage -head misalignment -printhead carriage height Is it across all channels? Do you see it more prominently in reds, blues or greens? Does it happen on every type of media?

What if my ink and profile gamut can't produce the spectral value? I run into this all of the time. Dye sub printing can't hit the gamut that an epson photo printer can. A client will sent me a fine art strike off in a gamut my ink is no where near, and can't understand why some colors aren't...

No better way! I love the color books the new rips have! I run Caldera and miss the Onyx version. (I can't generate my grid with the HSL settings) In the end...it's all about those device builds. I can't stand softproofing. Emulating ink on a monitor is pointless for our market. When we are...

Those are all nice round numbers for a rich black! I wish I could have hip shotted it, and had it be nice and neutral down to zero! We actually use the translated cmyk build from r-0/g-0/b-0 sent as a named spot color. I prefer sending named spot colors, as opposed to the "color replace"...

Don't be so hard on yourself, these are pretty difficult principles! I learned about all I know from this site...and several like it. Stick with it, and get a spectrophotometer to build your own profiles. I'm guessing you are using canned profiles now. I did that for a few years....I will never...

Input profiles are different than device or media profiles. Even in a fully color managed and profiled icc workflow, those numbers will not be the same. The reason being: your media profile is trying to interpret that Illustrator build to your color gamut. That is what rips do...they find the...

I print and profile on fabric which is a bit of a different monster...and it's grand format so resolution is a bit more coarse than most inkjet printing. I've NEVER built a good profile using the scanning method. Single patch reading works best for me. It's slow. It's tedious. It sucks..... but...

It may have more to do with the state of your heads. Are you getting clean nozzle tests? If the heads are clogged, you'll tend to see varying levels of defects across varying color channels. You may be having better results with the larger dots because the ink spreads more on your...

1780 for me too. I tried the 3000 patch set...it was overkill for my ink gamut. Also, I get better results with "scramble" patches.

Your device builds will most likely not be the same anymore. As with most rips...you'll need to build new media profiles and start a new list of "corrected" colors. CMYK builds don't translate across software like that because you have different screens and methods of black generation. Also ink...

I didn't say it "lowers" resolution. I said it introduces compression. I shoot photos with a dslr...and it's nothing but raw for me. The jpegs are not as good...ever. Just like a jpeg will not be as good as a .psd file...ever. I've been printing for 20 years, I am aware of what common practice...

A high resolution jpeg is kind of an oxymoron. You are introducing compression...which kills your image integrity right off the bat. A .psd at 75ppi at 10' x 8' is usually great, depending on the image...and no compression artifacts! If there are rasteized "graphic" type elements or...

Direct to fabric works okay...the backside isn't drastically denser than with paper. A little bit though. It makes a damn mess! More heat is only going to burn more color off. We do what bannertime suggests.

Another trick I use is tell people their job is now ...gasp..."on hold" until we get good files. That gets a fire going usually!

A trick I use for this is I provide art templates and forcefully keep it formatted as Illustrator. I provide a pdf "for reference only", and specify that we want the .ai file back, not a pdf. It curbs a lot of this type of problem, but inevitably we get things back that don't work. I put...

That's where I would start Michele. Don't kill your media you are currently using, but try creating a new one and linearizing. You do need a densitometer or spectrophotometer to take readings. If you get good density ramps into the media profile it may balance things out. After that do some...