RICOH GX5050N - COLOUR HELP - PLEASE

[Justin]

You need the profile for the 5050. You can download it from the Sawgrass website. PM me if you can't find it and I can email to you.

Never used Sign Blazer myself. Does this use icc profiles? I use CorelDraw 14 and have it set up for sublimation. make sure your printer is set to manual in properties....colour managment and the 5050 profile is the only one listed below.

You need to have colour management set up in Corel to use the profile. Again I can forward the instructions to you.
You also need to make sure when you print that everything is set up properly. This is in the 5050 sublimation handbook.

Remind me where your printer and inks came from ?

[steve dee]

thank justin,i got the printer & inks from ebay as a set,got ripped off but hey.ill try do the icc ive just got from sawgrass.thanks

[Justin]

No worries, give me a shout to see how it's going. You should have got instructions and icc profile with it, very poor service if you didn't. Was it a company or private seller?

[steve dee]

it was a comapany called signal inkjet supplies.

[edgar]

Hi, I've been reading the bits & bobs on the Ricoh printers with interest as a trained Ricoh tech. I would like to point out that I haven't been trained & have no intention of being trained on gel/ink based Ricoh printers so my 1st hand knowledge of these products is zero. I still see a lot of Ricoh products but my company have moved onto Konica Minolta in the past couple of years. I do have access to manuals, modification & technical bulletins on them, so if anyone feels the desire to have a service manual i can get you one in pdf format. Small Ricoh products (& compared to some of the almost 20 foot machines i look at these are small) can be tricky to work on & a magnetic screwdriver plus a magnetic pick up tool should be a must for when the screws fall out!!!. Having read some of the 113 pages of tech bulletins there seems to be a lot of firmware updates & air blockage issues. It seems that leaving the printer for long periods between use, machines that have had high usage, little usage & have been used in a low humidity environment are most likely to give problems mainly with lines, scuffs & service errors. It seems that if you get a service error which is a code beginning SC then you leave the printer switched ON for 72, yes 72 hours then switch off & back on again. Not good if you are in a rush. My advise is to wait for the GXe 5050dn (pressuming sawgrass are going to make sublijet cartridges for it)which is the replacement model as a lot of the issues will have been ironed out. That said, I guarantee their will be issues with those printers too but when compared to problems I've had with Epson printers I would give the new generation machine a whirl once it's been out a couple of months. Most of the problems are picked up in Japan where the products hit the market sometimes years before they arrive here & are usually well factory modified by the time you will see one.