Grey has a redish hue

[rydods]

Why is it that everytime I try to print a grey color even a spot color I get a magenta hue? I have a SP 300 printing from Flexi Sign Pro 8.5. I'm trying to match a pantone uncoated color and no luck. Thanks

 

[cdiesel]

Profiles are off. Add cyan.

 

[rydods]

How do I get my profiles on? Another design company is providing the art and we can't seem to get on the same page with colors. I am having them send JPEGs now and this helps but not when it comes to match specific colors
Especially GREY

 

[petepaz]

have you printed the roland color system library on the material you are trying to print on. then you could pick a color closest to what you need and you should be set

 

[cdiesel]

The easiest way (and most expensive.. up front at least) is to hire a color profiling specialist to come out and hook you up. This will cost you at least a couple grand, but it's money well spent when you consider all of the issues you'll avoid.

 

[rydods]

Thanks guys. I have actually printed off the color chart and this is how I ended up matching it. I can't possibly imagine spending 2 grand however to get my profiles set up. The designs are set up by another company and I never know which files need to match perfectly until the prints we send actually come back then we have to redo. This is rare but it happens and we look bad because of it. I know I heard something about making sure the designer uses the same profile that we print with. Will that work?

 

[truckgraphics]

Are you looking at the print inside or outside? With our SP 300, vector greys on our preferred vector profile tend to print with a reddish hue under fluorescent light, but go to a more neutral grey under natural light. Conversely, jpegs on our preferred profile tend to look greenish outside, but neutral under fluorescent light. We always have to adjust our greys by changing profiles or fiddling with the colors, depending on where the print will be seen.

 

[WCSign]

print out a color chart and give that to the designer along with the roland color swatches that are in your pc.. this way no matter what their screen or your screen calibration is, they can say ok number xxxxx equals this color that we see on this material.

Even if it looks off to them on their PC monitor, they can be assured that the number they use off the chart will print like they see it in their hands

 

[petepaz]

if you find color matching to be a big issue and your business relies on it you should spend the money on the color profiling done. i think we will have to do that at some point but they told us they can set up our solvent, UV and silk screening so we can print matching colors for any process. now that is god stuff. for now we took a less expensive way out ($300) and are using catzper. that has been working out pretty good for us. does a good job at printing the colors you need or giving you a close enough spectrum to choose from for the customer to be happy.

 

[scuba_steve2699]

if you find color matching to be a big issue and your business relies on it you should spend the money on the color profiling done.

TRUTH!



- you might look into spending the 2K to get a i1 and the publisher software and create profiles yourself. It has a bit of a learning curve but is not bad once you get the hang of it.