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Kaz
04-05-2011, 04:45 PM
I need to do a mug with royal blue text on, but can't get it right.

I'm setting it as cyan in the colour palette in corel, and it's printing out a greenish-grey, and pressing as a yucky green shade.

I'm using a ricoh with the powerdriver profile and trupix paper.

Any ideas on how to get it royal blue are most welcome.

Thanks

mgibbs
04-05-2011, 04:51 PM
You've got the substrate set to Ceramic?

Mark

Kaz
04-05-2011, 04:55 PM
Sorry Mark, yes, I have.

I managed to do one last year, but for the life of me can't remember how I managed it, lol

mgibbs
04-05-2011, 05:00 PM
Junior member asking a Senior member the obvious - paper the right way round? :)

Mark

Kaz
04-05-2011, 05:02 PM
LOL, senior member goes for nothing, it just means I spout a lot more drivel than you ;-)

Yup, paper right way round, everything is as it was last time I printed.

I'm baffled as to why my royal blue is coming out yucky green when pressed :(

Paul
04-05-2011, 05:16 PM
my blue (from epson) would look yaky green if pressed for not long enoughor to cold.

Kaz
04-05-2011, 05:41 PM
180 at 180, same as usual for my mugs, Paul

Will just need to go try again on the now wasted mug

Paul
04-05-2011, 05:52 PM
how about printing opne dsf mug??? so you can see if everything is ok and not mesed up somwhere? ;)

Andrew
04-05-2011, 06:19 PM
I reckon you need more magenta in the mix. Pull it back toward the blue. Having said that...... I know naaathing when it comes to this bit of the game.

We have often had the opposite problem of a royal blue heading toward the purple side with it having too much magenta. This is where we have printed of a mug full of blue pantone squares.

gstk
04-05-2011, 07:44 PM
I know its a long shot but how much inks have you left. We had a prob similar with near empty cart r

Kaz
04-05-2011, 08:39 PM
It's relatively new cartridges, only done about a couple of dozen A3 pages since putting them in, so I don't think it's that.

The DSF logo doesn't really have the right colour in it, will have a mooch about on google and see if I can find something to try

Paul
04-05-2011, 08:40 PM
I mean this :)
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/1766/testpattern.jpg

Kaz
04-05-2011, 10:38 PM
Will give that a try in the morning, thanks Paul

Lee
05-05-2011, 02:56 PM
You've got the substrate set to Ceramic?

Mark

Is this a setting in Corel only?

mgibbs
05-05-2011, 03:02 PM
Its a setting in Powerdriver so you'll only see it if you're using a Ricoh (I believe).

Mark

GoonerGary
06-05-2011, 10:51 PM
Were you ever able to get royal blue printed? I gave up on Rotech ink because I couldn't get a decent blue. Artanium correctly set up in Photoshop and the printer driver cured that. I can't help with the Powerdriver set up sorry, but I had a similar problem when the printer driver suddenly changed the Colour Handling Settings from allowing 'Photoshop to manage colour' to let 'printer manage colour.' Is there anything similar in Powerdriver?

bms
07-05-2011, 09:38 AM
Is there anything similar in Powerdriver?

PowerDriver is just a printer driver. The colour handling settings are within Photoshop aren't they so you can tweak 'Photoshop to manage colour' to let 'printer manage colour' regardless of using PowerDriver or anything else.

Kaz
07-05-2011, 12:43 PM
Going to try again in a bit Gary, been bust doing tshirts the past few days, which are now done, thankfully

Kaz
07-05-2011, 04:41 PM
Paul

On the image you posted up there for me, on the large colour panel, the 4th from the left, 2nd from the top, the colour looks like maroon/purple.

Can you tell me what colour that is please as when I pressed it, it came out the colour I need :O

Will go find my camera and take a piccy and show you what I mean.

I'm on my mac just now, using coreldraw X4, with the powerdriver set as sawgrass recommend, and it still came out royal blue, lol

Kaz
07-05-2011, 05:08 PM
Hope this works, photography isn't my strong point, lol

Paul
07-05-2011, 05:17 PM
blime! your colours are right off :o it all look like washed out. is that what you normaly geting? I dont know about this blue on your mug but it should be purple.
and as i can ee from your pic grey does not exist at all. insted grey there is some blue cast. is that correct? or only impression made by your camera??

Kaz
07-05-2011, 05:19 PM
Just my crap photo, lol, the greys look OK, it's just the blues that are wrong, and the pink that came out purple, but that happens quite often :(

Paul
07-05-2011, 05:24 PM
most of the colours from palete (squers) are very light coloured. are you sure all your settings ok?? this picture should be much more saturated.

Kaz
07-05-2011, 05:32 PM
The setting haven't been changed on it, and up until trying to do this royal blue mug, not had any problems, that I'm aware of.

Here's a different mug I made, and colours are all vibrant on that

Kaz
07-05-2011, 05:44 PM
Been thinking about this, and the colour/saturation problem only occured after I put the new carts in.

Will go do one of my horse mugs and see how that turns out.

Back in 5

Paul
07-05-2011, 05:55 PM
Kaz. could you pm me your designe so i can have a look on my screen. my monitor is calibrated so i should see "real" colours. also I will try to press it to so the diference.

Kaz
07-05-2011, 05:58 PM
I *think* I've sorted it, got a mug in the press just now, give me a few minutes til it's done and I can check it, the colours looked better on the paper.

I'd somehow managed to tick the ICC profile button in setup (don't know how I did that as I never look in there, lol)

Paul
07-05-2011, 06:09 PM
:) let us know how thing going after this one ;)

Kaz
07-05-2011, 06:09 PM
*insert embarassed face here*
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lSWURufnWTc/So24bWDLCzI/AAAAAAAACyg/rek6g10LNmI/s200/FireShot+capture+%23035+-+%27Embarassed+Yellow+Smiley+Face+Gifs+Images+for+ your+profile+and+web+site%27+-+bigoo_ws_Images_smiles-gif_Embarassed-Yellow-Smiley-Face-233010_htm.png

It's now sorted, problem must have been because the ICC profile somehow managed to get ticked.

Printed the mug image again, and all colours are nice and vibrant........ and correct colours.

Thanks for your help on this

Paul
07-05-2011, 06:10 PM
wonder how your dsf mug would look like now lol :)

Kaz
07-05-2011, 06:13 PM
DSF mug looks great now, it's like night and day between them. :-D

I've now put a post it on the bottom of the screen to remind me to check that the ICC profile is switched OFF

Kaz
07-05-2011, 06:35 PM
Royal blue text has come out a treat, thankfully!!!

Thanks again for all the help