Versacamm Grey printing Tan

[binki]

I have a supplied image that is a jpg which is fine. It has a lot of grey in it and it is printing tan or brownish. What adjustments can I make for this?

 

[Zoogee World]

Which model are you using. Also do you have a photo of each?

 

[binki]

VS-300, Textile Heat Transfer, 6 color ink with double white (no white ink)

The image is a hand drawing scanned in. The pink lines are the cut lines

 

[Zoogee World]

I have a VS-300i and it is notorious for putting in way too much magenta, which I would say is what yours is doing in this case. I would go into the color adjustment screen in versaworks and take out a bit of magenta (3 or 4 notches), maybe add a little cyan (1 or 2 notches).

 

[binki]

Here is where I am at right now. It is a little better but not quite, I am working on the image now to see if I can make some adjustments.

 

[Zoogee World]

Here is where I am at right now. It is a little better but not quite, I am working on the image now to see if I can make some adjustments.
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I might increase the contrast a bit, but you can also adjust the tone curves for the colors as well. I find it gives greater variations if the slider isn't enough.

 

[binki]

Thanks for the help. I was able to move the brightness to the left all the way and with the other changes it is really close. I just don't understand when I print on my desktop printer it looks good and the versacamm doesn't even look like the same image.

 

[Zoogee World]

The main reason is how the printer reads it. Your desktop printer has a smaller gamut range compared to the wide format printer. We have a small business laser printer we print the paperwork and the proofs on, but the colors are always a lot different. I know that there is a way to calibrate the wide format printer using a spectrometer so that it is more calibrated to the color chart. I've never done it myself, but haven't had any issues matching colors yet with a little tweaking in the color menu.

 

[binki]

I was finally able to get it close enough by pulling magenta and yellow down, black up, left cyan alone, leaving contrast and brightness alone and using a profile that didn't put as much ink down and selected the fast print to cut more ink out.

 

[Zoogee World]

I was finally able to get it close enough by pulling magenta and yellow down, black up, left cyan alone, leaving contrast and brightness alone and using a profile that didn't put as much ink down and selected the fast print to cut more ink out.

Awesome.

 

[binki]

Awesome.

Thanks for your help. The color curve helped me a lot with solving this.

 

[Zoogee World]

Thanks for your help. The color curve helped me a lot with solving this.

You're welcome, glad it helped.

 

[Sean@CedarHouse]

Might consider changing your color in illustrator or Photoshop from CMYK to RGB and see if that changes things as well. I find that having the rip interpret the color from RGB makes a big difference on color.

Maybe for next time.

 

[Bobby H]

The old VersaCAMM VP540 printer we used years ago was notorious for having unstable grays. There was this one vehicle graphics job we had where there was this silvery-gray diamond plate texture in the background. That gray would shift between having a green or red cast. Literally one end of the print would have a different color tint than the other end of the print. You could roll both ends of the print around to meet each other and see the huge color shift plain as day. We had the machine serviced and tried all sorts of other experiments. In the end we just had to stay away from printing anything with a neutral grayscale tone. I was so glad when we retired that printer and replaced it with an HP Latex unit.