White Areas Printing With Tint

[accdave]

Since I changed from Epson to Ricoh I've had problems with printing with a white background. The white is printing with a tint usually a very light blue. Any idea why thats happening. Same thing on mugs and subli flock, which were fine using the Epson.

[RogerC]

ICC profile maybe?

[Paul]

i take it you don't use power driver? just icc?
if so what rendering you have set in photoshop (if you use PS )

[accdave]

i take it you don't use power driver? just icc?
if so what rendering you have set in photoshop (if you use PS )

I use the ICC profile in Corel Draw.Tried Powerdriver but the results were poor

[Paul]

ok.what rendering intent you have set?

[Justin]

Check and then double check all settings in Corel etc. According to sawgrass site. Ice had this with Epson in the past and it was an offer spray but never seen it on Ricoh.

[John G]

Clean your cyan head. My Ricoh had a similar problem where if I was printing say text, there would be a few mm of blue overspray all around the text - 1 or 2 head cyan cleans later and bobs ya uncle.

Cheers John

[Skye]

Hi AccDave,

As Justin said - recheck your CorelDraw settings. This happens if the printing intent (file/print/color) is set to "Absolute Colormetric". It's better set to "Perceptual".
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You can check if this is the cause of your "blue" tint. In CD - switch on tools/color proof settings to get screen below. Set to your ICC profile & "Absolute Colormetric". As you can see the square looks white.
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If you switch proof colors "on" (there's a check box at the top) the white square will change to blue because of the rendering done by the "Absolute Colormetric" setting. Change this to "perceptual" or "relative colormetric" and the square will be white.
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Try it - if yours doesn't turn blue then the cause is probably something else.

Karen

[Earl Smith]

Are you using the correct paper? The Epson paper will not work in the Ricoh printer.

[accdave]

Thanks for all the help so far. Just to clarify a couple of things JOHN G & Earl. It only happens with imported images, if I create the text myself it's fine. Using BMS Subli paper.

My setting was Perceptual but ....... schoolboy error. The profile set up clearly states make sure all the Orange & Grey arrows match the diagram, guess who had no orange arrows set

Not tested the result yet but will keep you posted.