Rich black from laser for positives
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:35 am
Hello,
I have a RICOH Aficio SP C811DN printer, and I am having the worst luck getting it to print real rich black. I'm using it to print film positives on polyester vellum for burning silkscreens.
Between the 30+ printer profiles and numerous other settings, there are over 20 million different ways to print one document.
Add all these options up and you get 24,192,000 different, unique ways to print a document. I really don't have the time to try them all out. How can I make sense of it all?
Do you have any advice? I'm stuck with dark gray printouts.
Thanks
-Dodd
Art Department
Calconix, Inc.
TimeZone ®
(888)256-2544
(610)642-5921
(610)642-5928 Fax
I have a RICOH Aficio SP C811DN printer, and I am having the worst luck getting it to print real rich black. I'm using it to print film positives on polyester vellum for burning silkscreens.
Between the 30+ printer profiles and numerous other settings, there are over 20 million different ways to print one document.
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Illustrator Color Management:
2 Choices for Color handling
Let Illustrator determine colors
Let PostScript printer determine colors
30 Printer profiles including:
Generic CMYK
U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
150-line Pantone
RICOH Aficio SP C811DN
4 Rendering Intent Choices:
Perceptual
Saturation
Relative Colorimetric
Absolute Colorimetric
Printer Dialog Color Matching:
ColorSync or In Printer
Which Profile for ColorSync? Printer profile?
Printer Features:
Color Smoothing: On or Off
Color Mode: Black/White or Color
Gradation: Fast, Standard, Fine
Color Setting: Off, Fine, or Super Fine
Color Profile: Auto, Photographic, Presentation, Solid Color, User Setting, CLP Simulation1, CLP Simulation2
Dithering: Auto, Photographic, Text, User Setting
Gray Reproduction: Black/Gray by K, Black by K, CMY+K, Black/Gray by K (Text only), Black by K (Text only)
Black Over Print: On or Off
CMYK Simulation Profile: Off, US OffsetPrint, Euroscale, JapanColor, PaletteColor
Do you have any advice? I'm stuck with dark gray printouts.
Thanks
-Dodd
Art Department
Calconix, Inc.
TimeZone ®
(888)256-2544
(610)642-5921
(610)642-5928 Fax