Need help 80600 creating profile hit KAWASAKI green

[petit]

Hy

I'm using my espon 80600 with onyx and also have an old caldera wich can be run with it too, and i 'm looking for help to create a profile to hit the Green KAWASAKI.
Can anyone help me giving tips on ONYX or calera to get this color?
Thanks for watching.
Regards

 

[unclebun]

Kawasaki green is not just one color. Practically every 3 years the color plastic Kawasaki has used is a different color. It's also easy to replicate the colors using practically any printer. You don't need a special profile, jut the right one for the vinyl you are using. Then start with something like Pantone 368 or 369 converted to CMYK or RGB and then tweak it until you like the match you are getting with the plastic. Even though the inks are CMYK I find with the Onyx RIP seems to be easier to hit Kawi green and KTM orange using RGB rather than CMYK.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Even though the inks are CMYK I find with the Onyx RIP seems to be easier to hit Kawi green and KTM orange using RGB rather than CMYK.

Modern printers have extended their gamut past the default CMYK gamut used in most design software input profiles. RGB has a much wider gamut than CMYK which is why when you send over the RGB file, it can hit those colors that aren't represented in the standard CMYK input profile. Manufacturers like Mimaki actually have their own CMYK input profile that you can use for this reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Epson has their own as well.

 

[cmoist]

BikeGraphix is using 2271C for the current Kawi green.

I've had varying luck switching to RGB/CMYK from pantone. It seems the RIP prints the pantone color differently than the RGB or CMYK equivalent.

As unclebun stated, testing is everything.

 

[unclebun]

BikeGraphix is using 2271C for the current Kawi green.

I've had varying luck switching to RGB/CMYK from pantone. It seems the RIP prints the pantone color differently than the RGB or CMYK equivalent.

As unclebun stated, testing is everything.

I don't know about other RIPs but Onyx has specific tables to convert Pantone colors to print accurately.

 

[marsuni]

Modern printers have extended their gamut past the default CMYK gamut used in most design software input profiles. RGB has a much wider gamut than CMYK which is why when you send over the RGB file, it can hit those colors that aren't represented in the standard CMYK input profile. Manufacturers like Mimaki actually have their own CMYK input profile that you can use for this reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Epson has their own as well.

Epson has it's own EPSON Wide CMYK Ver2 profile that works GREAT!!!

 

[FrankW]

A spot color "Kawasaki green" is hard to hit with a CMYK+ Printer too.

But you can use the Job Editor (if you have Postershop or Thrive, doesn´t work with RIP-Center as far as I know) to print variations to find the nearest approach. Open Job with Kawasaki Green in Job Editor by right-clicking on the job entry in RIP Queue, choose "Open in Job Editor", there choose the tab "Color Correction, there the button "Tools" and "Color Correction", in the PopUp-Menu there "Color Replacement", in the following dialog click the button "Insert ..." (not sure, I use german version), with the Pipette near "Current Color" pick the Kawasaki-Green and click the button "Swatch Books". There you can generate a swatch of samples with CMYK-Values with which you can decide which CMYK-Value is the nearest.

 

[bteifeld]

Measure the color with a spectrophotometer like an i1pro, get the L*a*b* number, create a named spot color using your RIP's facility for named colors, and use that spot color reference in your design software.

 

[PhilsSigns]

Hy

I'm using my espon 80600 with onyx and also have an old caldera wich can be run with it too, and i 'm looking for help to create a profile to hit the Green KAWASAKI.
Can anyone help me giving tips on ONYX or calera to get this color?
Thanks for watching.
Regards

I use the 80600 as well and have recently bought the epson photospectrometer, this generally gives really accurate results and we now print a lot of the graphics which we would have used colour vinyl in the past.