I am a graphic artist for a screen printer. We just recently made a major leap from CorelDraw 11 to X6. I am having a problem in that when I use Pantone colors they look correct on my monitor (Matches Pantone book), they look fine when converted to .jpgs, but they do not always print out correctly from my printer. As an example Pantone 375 is a lime green, but it prints out like a darker Kelly green.
I know x6 has a lot of color management options. But there are too many options and I am confused with what to change. So far all changes have had no effect on the print outs.
Any other suggestions? I have tried all suggestions so far to no avail. I have changed almost all of the color management settings at one point or another and my colors on paper are still darker and weirder as an example like this...
Hi Andy,
If you do not know what each color management setting does exactly it is best to leave them in factory default state, "playing" with settings usually does more harm than good.
We still do not know how you print spot colors - what is the printer, do you use PostScript driver/RIP? The reason colors print the way they do for you might have nothing to do with color management settings. Many Pantone spot colors ( Pantone 375 CV too) are very bright and saturated, some printers simply can not simulate them at all - their inks can not pull such bright colors, especially on uncoated paper. Using factory settings I did a quick test printing Pantone 375 CV to few consumer-level inkjets and laser printers and in all cases I have got a reasonable color match. The results you show are a bit extreme and almost look like you are printing on newspaper stock.
Gennady
I printed out some test pages from the printer itself and I have printed Pantone 375 from Photoshop and Illustrator and they both printed fine. CorelDraw is the only one printing too dark.
Here are my current Color management settings
And here are the two main print dialogue screens to my printer.
Could you post captures of the printer dialog from the Windows control panel access points, please expand anything that has to do with color.
David. I could show you a screen shot of anything. I am not 100% sure of which part you would want to see?
I need the content of the color tabs from the CorelDRAW printer dialog as well as the printer dialogs themselves, especially any advanced settings.
These are all settings as I have them currently. Most settings have been switched to one thing or another at some point, all resulting in no visual change when printing. I can elaborate more on any specific tab or setting that you think may help. And...I appreciate your time.
The Corel Print General Tab
The Corel Print Color Tab
The Corel Print Composite Tab
Image showing where I get my pantone colors from
Ricoh Print quality 1
Ricoh Print quality 2
Ricoh Print quality 3
Current Corel Color Management settings.
In the Corel print color tab try setting color conversions performed by to the device not CorelDRAW
I changed to color conversion to device and there was no change in the print.