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Trying to match colors between 3 - Mimaki JF1631 printers

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jdwilliams1

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As mentioned we have 3 JF1631 mimaki printers and I am looking for advice on getting the colors that we print to be as close to identical as possible (within reason) Any tips or advise that I might be missing to do this. We print a bunch of green and right now we have the green we want printing on 1 of the printers, but when we send the same file to the other two printers we get a green that we are not fond of.

Is there something in the rip that we can look for that might help us solve this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

As far as I can tell the profiles are exactly the same on all 3 machines
 
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chafro

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No printer prints the same. You need a spectrophotometer to make your own profiles for each printer.

You will also need a profile software if your rip doesn't have one.
 
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jdwilliams1

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chafro said:
No printer prints the same. You need a spectrophotometer to make your own profiles for each printer.

You will also need a profile software if your rip doesn't have one.
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yeah thought my original post was pretty clear...I know that no two printers print the same. But right now two of my printers are printing the same but the wrong color and one is printing the proper color green.

So, in reality two printers can print the same(or close to it) but what are the fine tune tweaks I can make to match them all up. Is there something in the software I might want to check. I have raster link 5
 
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DIGIXTRA

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jdwilliams1 said:
yeah thought my original post was pretty clear...I know that no two printers print the same. But right now two of my printers are printing the same but the wrong color and one is printing the proper color green.

So, in reality two printers can print the same(or close to it) but what are the fine tune tweaks I can make to match them all up. Is there something in the software I might want to check. I have raster link 5
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I think Chafro make it very clear... You need to profile each printer as well as media used. As you have said in your post.. you know every printer print different hence each will need its own profile. You can not use the same profile for all of them.. this is wrong and no wonder why you have different result. If you (know) profile correctly all your printer would match 90% (overall). To match a particular color you would have to build a custom color library for each printer. I only have Onyx and Wasatch so I can not show you how to do it with Raster link 5 but I beleive it should have that function build in.
 
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jdwilliams1

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DIGIXTRA said:
I think Chafro make it very clear... You need to profile each printer as well as media used. As you have said in your post.. you know every printer print different hence each will need its own profile. You can not use the same profile for all of them.. this is wrong and no wonder why you have different result. If you (know) profile correctly all your printer would match 90% (overall). To match a particular color you would have to build a custom color library for each printer. I only have Onyx and Wasatch so I can not show you how to do it with Raster link 5 but I beleive it should have that function build in.
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Thanks for the input DIGIX. Chafro was not very clear or else I would not have asked for more input. Thanks
 
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jdwilliams1

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Any other color experts out there with raster link 5. I have 3 printers...Mimaki JF1631 and 2 of them are off and I would like to find someone that can help me set the colors up. I will pay!!
 
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AF

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Each rip is different, but ColorGATE has a function exactly for the need to match multiple identical printers called MDS. OP may have similar function available in his RIP. Otherwise i1 Profiler can create DL profiles to achieve the same result. His rip would have DLP support built in though.

As mentioned early on, the easiest first step would be to properly profile each machine and see if further action is needed.
 
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