Roland SP-540 Getting Brown instead of Red

[ismoreno]

Hey guys i hope someone can help, Im pretty savvy with this printer but just can't seem to figure out how to solve this problem.

Issue: If been dealing with this for about 3 weeks now and cant figure it out. I was using some alternative eco solvent ink, Instead of printing red Im printing orange or if its burgundy it looks brown.

What Ive done so far: Ive cleaned it and all the colors are solid and look good on the test prints. I even made CMYK squares in illustrator and exported them EPS and printed in Density control and the colors looked perfect.

I changed the cap top for the yellow and magenta, but am still having the problem. I also changed back to Roland ink and that didn't help.

Anyone got an idea of what it could be?

 

[ProWraps]

burgendys always have the tendency to go brown. its common on our mutohs as well.

 

[ismoreno]

@ Prowraps

Ya I can see how there can be a color shift when like blue to purple but this is reds to orange darker the darker the read the more brown.I really get no red, however, when i test print its all perfect.

 

[Custom_Grafx]

could be your colour profile. have you always had this problem or it just started?

 

[Gino]

^ ^ Yeah, try that. ^ ^

 

[tciou]

If by printing in Density control the colors look perfect then there is a big chance that your profile is the cause. Do you use custom profiles ?

 

[ismoreno]

I use default RGB on Illustrator and recently imported the Versaworks Swatch Library into illustrator. I did a print of "RUBY" and it helped alot but still get more of a brown than the actual color.

@ Custom Grfx This is a recent problem dealing with it close to a month now.

Should I print with Density Control all the time?

Any other Ideas

 

[P Wagner]

Using the Density Control Only setting effectively turns off all ICC profiles and rendering intents for that job. This setting should be used while creating a new media/ profiling.

Doing this for production jobs is probably a mixed bag: It can produce more vibrant solid colors (as you are seeing in this case), but it probably will cause raster images (photos) to print unpredictably and generally poorly.

A better option available in Versaworks might be to use the Roland Color System when you want to reproduce reference spot/ solid colors. Doing this causes the RIP to use a direct color conversion for those colors only, leaving the rest of the files, including raster elements, to print using an ICC-based workflow.