colour problems

[Maruci]

Another new one here having problems with colours, but in my case I am only doing tees and I am using a ricoh SG3110dn with its OEM pigment ink (not sublimation ink) and i am not happy with the colours, it is not vibrant and in my opinion it is quite dull; Any idea on how to improve it? Many thanks

[mags1892]

Ive been messing with a 2100 and a 3110 and have NO difference in quality and very very little in colour no more than the fluctuation between two 3110s the important thing is decent ink that doesnt change from batch to batch.

Colour profiles are effected by many scenarios , they are designed to make a 3d table of colours of your printer in a particular state, now with sublimation this will be the ink at whichever paper settings on whichever paper onto whichever substrate at whichever temperature for whichever time at whichever pressure. ANY one of these alters and the colour could change to varying degrees, the biggest change will be from poor paper to quality paper or chomalux panels to tshirt for example.

I tend to make two profiles only one for soft products like tshirts, one for hard products like mugs metal etc. I live with the colour differences, If i have clients who want far better quality I use a special RIP which controls everything and colour manages EVERY substrate but for home use this is not worth the effort.

Profiling for Pigment ink onto a paper is far far easier but equally necessary, picking the varying paper types in your printer only really adjust max ink , for example picking a plain paper will put down less ink than a matte paper or a photo gloss, from these bases we make icc profiles do not mistake that more ink always produces bigger colourspace .

[technick]

Srgb 2.1
Shift colour from realistic to satured in driver print settings