Why are my prints so yellow???

[soulclaimed]

Hi

I have been testing out print settings and have got a decent looking print on paper but once pressed to any item including easels and bags etc alot of yellow tone is coming through and i have no idea why as it does not match the print, I have attached a print on the sublimation paper and the same print next to it on the item and theres is a noticeable difference in colour, can anybody tell me why? I used the heat settings and time given by xpres website, same issue with other images too.

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[Ian M]

Looks like cyan is missing. Try a nozzle check to see if cyan is coming through.

[soulclaimed]

thanks for the reply but the image on the right is the paper printed with the sublimation ink before it is applied it accurately represents the image on my screen, my question is why does it come out yellow once applied as the image on the left differs largely in colour compared to on the right

[mrs maggot]

thats an expensive item to be playing with, i would be test printing on a cut up mousemat or similar ( i have no idea why colourwise, but i would suspect your colour profile is out, they rarely look the same printed on the paper as they do the finished item)

[soulclaimed]

i got them on sale in the xpres clearance and it wasnt really a test as i thought that due to the print quality being quite light and not atall yellow that it wouldnt be yellow once pressed but sadly again it was it is just a small gift for my mother as its her dogs on the image and shes been a bit down so wanted to chear her up a bit sadly did not turn out as expected

[WorthDoingRight]

Well, if I have learned one thing about sublimation then it is that the images printed onto sublimation paper rarely ever look the same when finally sublimated. Now I have a single tile I sublimated here that I did using SRN sublimation paper that has a slight yellow tint which I put down to perhaps me over cooking the item whilst pressing however luckily it just makes the image seem like an aged photograph. However I do not usually use SRN sublimation paper and will not be buying it again as I do not rate it much. Because the colour cast is all over your item I would think that it is maybe an ICC profile issue and that it is just not visible before heating. Like Laura says you should be experimenting with a cheap item such as sublimatable aluminium sheets to save your expense.

[JSR]

Sublimation inks change under heat and don't reach their final colour until then. Yellow, being a very light colour on paper, is one that makes the biggest change between what you see on the paper and what you see on the final substrate. If you use a six-colour printer, then the same applies to the light cyan.

I had a heavy yellow/green colour cast from my Epson B40W when I first bought it. I had it set up with "approved" Sawgrass Artanium ink and the "approved" Sawgrass ICC colour correction profile. The result was too yellow/green, which gave the finished item a very flat look about it.

Nothing I could do would fix it until I got a custom ICC profile made. As soon as I'd done that, the result was spot on. No green/yellow colour cast, and the final print "popped" rather than looked flat.

Unless you already have a custom ICC profile, I'd recommend that getting one should be your first priority - if only to eliminate that as a potential cause of the problem. The fact that your final print is very yellow suggests that the magenta is weak, and the colour correction profile should correct for that.

It's also worth considering that some substrates look different to others even when using the same profile. What prints well on a mug might look different on a t-shirt or coaster - typically, though, it won't be to the extreme of your overly yellow print.