Roland vp 540 expert needed

[shirtz]

I'm having issues with a vp 540 that has everyone scratching their heads.
Printer will not print gray, it comes out pinkish. The machine is printing head checks and all the service mode checks perfectly. It will print gray from the roland color chart right off the printer directly, but when we print from versaworks the gray is pink.
We have reinstalled versaworks and also tried versaworks on the techs laptop???

 

[Jack Knight1979]

I was going to suggest re-initializing VW, but running it off the techs VW with the same results has my head scratching as well.

Have you done a cold reboot of the printer. Unplugged it for few minutes and tried again?

 

[InkjetAuction]

VW Greys

It's a RIP thing.... it's not your printer.

There's a tech note to help print greys better with VersaWorks here...
http://support.rolanddga.com/docs/D...vices/Manuals and Guides/rvw_printinggrey.pdf

Good info that may help. Also make sure that your profiles are linearized.

~E

 

[splizaat]

Are you printing from PDF??? If so, open in illustrator and try saving as EPS. We had some artwork the other day printing straight Forest GREEN that was supposed to be grey...it was a PDF file that we resaved as EPS and it printed perfect grey just from resaving as another file type.

 

[Bigdawg]

If you are going pinkish in your grays - I strongly suggest you take one of your prints outside in the sun and look at it again. Go ahead - I'll wait

Our grays are pinkish inside but turn gray outside in the sun...

 

[Mosh]

It is the file and the the profiles...Try a TIFF file. Different file types print differently, some greys are piink, most have a green tint to them. Printing from a tiff file and using the correct media profiles give me the best grey/greys.
AND what BIGDAWG said, stuff looks different outside....

Hope this helps, also do a green/grey search on this site, I think it is the same problem.

 

[Fusion Graphics]

Could be the conection between the computer and printer as well. Firewire cable or the actual firewire port in the printer or card on the computer, but if its happened on the techs laptop leads be to believe cable it self or firewire card on printer with the obvious ofcourse using calibrated profiles to your screen, ie what you see on screen you should be able to get within tolerance ofcourse greys are a very hard colour as they a mix of all cmyk and just a percentage of black only always comes out crap. hope thats of help

 

[lazaros]

Also check the embeded profile in your artwork... maybe it's not in CMYK mode, and is saved with some other color profile!