ICC Profiles

[Goatshaver]

So I'm using a SP-540V and well I'm finding that, because of age?, I'm having a hard time finding proper media profiles for my vinyl. (ie Arlon DPF 4560 GT).

Does anyone have a good resource of profiles to download? and if you can't find a proper profile what settings do you use? (Just for general vinyl printing no special materials)

 

[Pauly]

canned profiles suck. Make your own. A small investment in a spectrophotometer can go a long way.

 

[IsItFasst]

I've probably used an entire roll testing different profiles and tweaking them over the years. I found that 3M-IJ180-C was pretty close using Flexi for my SP-300V. But had to tweak it some using an i1 to get it "perfect". I use that profile 99% of the time unless I am printing a graphic from Aurora that is blue since it makes it print purple.

 

[Terry01]

Pick any profile that suits your needs..or edit the profile to suit etc. YOU TELL YOUR PRINTER HOW MUCH INK TO LAY DOWN!! it doesn't tell you

 

[Solventinkjet]

canned profiles suck. Make your own. A small investment in a spectrophotometer can go a long way.

Agreed but if you have to use a canned profile the 3M ones tend to have the brightest colors and high saturation in my experience.

 

[Goatshaver]

Thanks guys! I'll check some of those 3M profiles out.