[synful prod]

I have a Melcojet 2010 basically an Anajet Sprint with an R1900 head. I use all dupont ink from All American in philly. I have a hell of a time getting ANY coloring right when there's blue involved. We have to adjust our colors to almost pale colors in order to get it to print even close to the coloring on the screen.

When printing yellows they have a greenish tint to them, royal blues print navy, some reds print purpleish. If we take our Cyan saturation setting down in the rip adjustment to almost 20% we get a closer color to what we want to print. The problem is we have to first print aa shirt and then adjust it for the reprint. MelcoRip software does not allow us to adjust it before printing.

We use the photo/normal setting and usually 1440x720 for the color layer if we go 1440x1440 we can't even use the prints half the time. I called All American and asked for ICC profiles for the ink and they said they don't have them, yet they sell the inks.

When we design the images its not an issue, we adjust our coloring for print. When we try using customer supplied graphics its a nightmare.

Does anyone know or have an idea of what the problem could be? Thanks in advance for any insight.

 

[DTGPRINTERPARTS]

Have you done a nozzle check and how does it look? If the pump and cap assembly/maintenance station is clogged it will not pull all the inks out of the head equally and pull from the other colors to compensate and print the wrong colors. Yeah I don't think AA would have them to be honest so I don't think they are lying to you

 

[DTGPRINTERPARTS]

Also, how long have you had the printer and is it second hand or did this just start happening?

 

[lazographics]

I have a Melcojet 2010 basically an Anajet Sprint with an R1900 head. I use all dupont ink from All American in philly. I have a hell of a time getting ANY coloring right when there's blue involved. We have to adjust our colors to almost pale colors in order to get it to print even close to the coloring on the screen.

When printing yellows they have a greenish tint to them, royal blues print navy, some reds print purpleish. If we take our Cyan saturation setting down in the rip adjustment to almost 20% we get a closer color to what we want to print. The problem is we have to first print aa shirt and then adjust it for the reprint. MelcoRip software does not allow us to adjust it before printing.

We use the photo/normal setting and usually 1440x720 for the color layer if we go 1440x1440 we can't even use the prints half the time. I called All American and asked for ICC profiles for the ink and they said they don't have them, yet they sell the inks.

When we design the images its not an issue, we adjust our coloring for print. When we try using customer supplied graphics its a nightmare.

Does anyone know or have an idea of what the problem could be? Thanks in advance for any insight.

If your looking for updated icc profiles you need to talk to the company that sells the rip and printer. The icc profiles will need to be from that rip. AA wouldn't have the icc profiles because they don't sell the software or this model of printer. Only because they sell ink doesn't mean that they would have icc profiles for every rip or printer for that matter. Contact Melco. If your getting perfect nozzle checks then it's more then likely a software/art related issue.

 

[synful prod]

Nozzel checks are fine. The machine I got used, I replaced head, caping atation, lines, dampers, motherboard. Have had it for about 6 months. It prints perfect if we do the design so I know its not a printer issue but software/rip settings. I was hoping someone else had similar issues and could tell me what if any program adjustments could be made.


Thanks for everyones respnses so far.

 

[FIREBIRDken]

I have a Melcojet 2010 basically an Anajet Sprint with an R1900 head. I use all dupont ink from All American in philly. I have a hell of a time getting ANY coloring right when there's blue involved. We have to adjust our colors to almost pale colors in order to get it to print even close to the coloring on the screen.

When printing yellows they have a greenish tint to them, royal blues print navy, some reds print purpleish. If we take our Cyan saturation setting down in the rip adjustment to almost 20% we get a closer color to what we want to print. The problem is we have to first print aa shirt and then adjust it for the reprint. MelcoRip software does not allow us to adjust it before printing.

We use the photo/normal setting and usually 1440x720 for the color layer if we go 1440x1440 we can't even use the prints half the time. I called All American and asked for ICC profiles for the ink and they said they don't have them, yet they sell the inks.

When we design the images its not an issue, we adjust our coloring for print. When we try using customer supplied graphics its a nightmare.

Does anyone know or have an idea of what the problem could be? Thanks in advance for any insight.

EK Print Studio is challenging with certain colors. No Doubt.
Here is some help....under the Ink Settings, change the Brightness to at least +15 and the Contrast to -1.
Do NOT use VIVID as your default color setting; use standard, photo or graphic. If you adjust the dot to medium 3 you should get much closer to what you are trying to achieve.
Also, convert all customer supplied graphics to PNG (they must be in RGB color mode to do this). EK does not print as well with CMYK graphics.
GL

K

 

[synful prod]

I use melcorip. The software that came with the printer. There is a lighter darker slide bar option. Normal and vivid options and a bunch of rip icc profiles. To change those and print woukd take forever to try them all.

 

[synful prod]

I forgot to mention, I do use rgb but a psd format. I will switch to a png file and compare results.

 

[FIREBIRDken]

Try connecting to thedigiguy. He has a lot of experience with melco and the melco rip and also started out with the MelcoJet as well

 

[synful prod]

Ok thanks. I will be ordering some fb white soon after I finish up the dupont I habe. I have some question on that as well but can will contact you via your site for that.

 

[FIREBIRDken]

Oh...nice.
you can email me at [email protected]

 

[lazographics]

I forgot to mention, I do use rgb but a psd format. I will switch to a png file and compare results.

Try opening your rgb psd file in Photoshop and switch the color mode to CMYK and see what the colors look like. You may see a huge difference and possibly a close representation of the results that you are getting when you print the file.

 

[synful prod]

I did a test print with the rgb psd opened and saved as an rgb png and the yellows still had a greenish tint to them. I left the shop before I seen your reply. I am aware of how cmyk and rgb color works. I just didn't know if file format mattered in my software.