Finding the Right RED

[acothran]

I have a pulling tractor to wrap (yes, the same one as in another post) and the frame of the tractor is painted Duplicolor Victory Red which is based off a Chevy paint color from years past. I'm attempting to closely match that color with the printed wrap. I've tried several Pantone reds and several CMYK options from the Summa CMYK color match chart but feel none are close enough. I'm using Colorburst RIP with a GS6000 printing on IJ180Cv3 and 8518 laminate. I'm wondering if any of you have suggestions on a way I might find a closer match?

Thanks,
Allen

 

[J Hill Designs]

make a gradient from the two closest reds and find a happy medium in there, go back to the design software and find out what the color is at that spot

 

[signswi]

Buy a spectrophotometer that outputs CMYK/RGB/PMS matches, every shop should have one.

Or, print a bunch of swatches that are slight shifts from each other and visual match in outdoor lighting conditions. Yay.

 

[Rooster]

REds are notoriously bad on inkjets at faster speeds. Try slowing your printer down with a higher resolution and number of passes and watch how much the reds punch up.

 

[TyrantDesigner]

So, let me get this right ... you're looking for an almost primary red using multiple colors to produce a secondary red and it's not coming out exact? Pretty much the only way to make an non 'tomatoe' red in inkjet is to involve a spot color, pretty much everything else will become quite lacking in that department. Either that or look at solid wrapping cast (3m and oracal make decent wrapping cast) ... you might find a color that is closer.

 

[Charlie J]

I'm also having trouble with reds. If my artwork is vector, I just change it to the roland spot color RVW-PR43K1. I'm printing bitmaps, and I can't get a decent red. Everything else looks good, but my reds are orange.

 

[StarSign]

A good red we use on our Fuji flatbed is CMYK 0 100 100 12

 

[Gene@mpls]

I'm also having trouble with reds. If my artwork is vector, I just change it to the roland spot color RVW-PR43K1. I'm printing bitmaps, and I can't get a decent red. Everything else looks good, but my reds are orange.

What, pray, is PR43K1?