UCJV330 Profiles

[jharler]

I recently took delivery of a new UCJV330-160 and I'm in need of some color profiles. I'm using the demo version of Onyx Thrive right now and would love to continue to use it for both my Epson s80600 and the UCJV330, but I have no spectrophotometer and thus no way of generating profiles, and I can't seem to find any profiles for this printer from a web search. The default profile that Onyx provides is printing way too saturated and I can't find any way to change it. Rasterlink 7 came with the printer, so profiles for that would also be appreciated. I have someone on the schedule to come in and work with me to make profiles, but that's weeks away, so I was hoping to find something usable in the meantime. Thanks everyone in advance.

 

[Goatshaver]

Good luck. Right now it just seems Onlyx only has a test driver available for the UCJV330.
I'm in the same boat and wanted to use Onyx with my UCJV330 but there are no profiles available as of yet. Unless you make your own media profiles, you will probably be stuck using Rasterlink for now until some companies start making media profiles for other RIPS. I'd say get comfortable using Rasterlink.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Here's the profile download page for Rasterlink 7 and your model: https://mimaki.com/product/inkjet/print-cut/ucjv330-series/download.html

They won't work in Onyx I believe however.

 

[jharler]

I've used Rasterlink and have a variety of profiles loaded that Mimaki provides, but every one I've tried is laying down way too much ink. Perhaps it's a setting on the printer. The install tech was dialing all the setting in and I wasn't really watching all that closely to what he was doing. The only way I've been able to get halfway decent prints with Rasterlink is by going Quality -> Color Adjust and adjusting the ink limit curves.

I'm having an expert coming in to create profiles for me in a few weeks. I just need to decide if I want them done for Onyx or for Rasterlink. Rasterlink is free and I'd have to upgrade to Thrive, so I'm not sure yet. I need to spend more time with the Thrive demo to see if it's worth the cost to my shop at this time.

 

[Goatshaver]

I've used Rasterlink and have a variety of profiles loaded that Mimaki provides, but every one I've tried is laying down way too much ink. Perhaps it's a setting on the printer. The install tech was dialing all the setting in and I wasn't really watching all that closely to what he was doing. The only way I've been able to get halfway decent prints with Rasterlink is by going Quality -> Color Adjust and adjusting the ink limit curves.

I'm having an expert coming in to create profiles for me in a few weeks. I just need to decide if I want them done for Onyx or for Rasterlink. Rasterlink is free and I'd have to upgrade to Thrive, so I'm not sure yet. I need to spend more time with the Thrive demo to see if it's worth the cost to my shop at this time.

What color matching setting are you using in your quality tab? Maybe that will help. I tend to use Deep Color Natural for most of my prints.

 

[jharler]

I've tried them all. So far, Wide Mimaki seems to give me the closest colors to my Epson s80600 (I know I'll never achieve the same colors on the Mimaki, but it's not even close at this point).

 

[Goatshaver]

I looked through my machine setting and there is nothing for inks except white and clear for MAPS which doesn't have anything to do with what you're trying to get. I don't remember my tech doing anything special for ink coverage, just the regular print alignments.
Is it that you are trying to match what is coming off your Epson? I've never had any issues with the amount of ink it's laying down except when I tried the Onyx test driver for the UCJV330.

 

[jharler]

Yeah, I'm very happy with the colors my Epson produces and usually send RGB files to Onyx. I know I won't be able to match every print between printers, but I'm hoping I can get CMYK prints nearly the same.