Hello, that's my first post. This forum seems to have a lot of experienced people, and I am really in need here. I work on Mutoh Falcon II in which I use Pantone solid Coated pallete (from X3). I made 2 printings with this pallete, and done it with two diffrent printer profiles. Now when I got 2 pallets on textile, I can easily look how will every color from pallete look like after job. So I can very precise make my projects, and the clients are used to my colors. Unfortunatly, during last 3 years, many things have changes, and also I am getting more and more new files, which X3 can't properly manage, open and import. Also it can't use full potential of my machine, so I decided to move on to X5. Now after moving I am shocked about how diffrently it treats all graphhic. It don't have same pallete of Pantone C. Every Pantone has slightly / significant diffrence in separative colors, so my old Pantone 185, or 485 now on my printer looks compleatly diffrent! This cannot be happening. I lost 50m of fabric becuase EuropeUnion flags were printet in diffrent blue color.... Now I tried to help myslef, but I have poor knowledge about colors profile. During my little investigation, I saw that there is a way to get my old pantone. I have imported my old pallete, which is in cpl file. I can open it via X5 pallete editor. Than I need to thick little box which says "Treat as separation colors" - than the name of for example Pantone 485C goes away, but it's place is took by CMYK parameters, which are correct with old CMYK parameters in Corel X3. But by doing this there are two problems. First and worst is that it would take me years to change by my hand all those pantone colors. Second, also very annoying is that after doing so - Corel X5 stops to find colors which I want when I type their name. It used to be that I was clicking on object, on it's color twice, than little window was poping, I clicked there (Colors/Models/Pallets) Pallets, and there was my normal Pantone(R) solid coated. Than I just type 4... and 485C was already shown. Than just Enter and done. Color set. Now after changing the pallet to separative colors, I am loosing "names" and getting just CMYK color name. To be precise, in Corel X3 it looks like this :
And this is in X5:
, so please tell me WHY!? :) Who made such great fail. I'd love to have my old colors in new version, because it is so much faster in opening and working on files. But color diffrences are not accaptable. And this is why I spent more than 700$, and now still I'm using old soft. Please help me out.
Maybe this will help You understand something more, pictures of settings in X3 and 5.
Just a side question do you have all the service packs for X5, 3 service packs and 1 hotfix.
I tried choosing option in menu Help, where there is something about "updates" or something simmilar, but after w8 a while, there is nothing shown, when I'll be in work at Monday, I'll report back with screen. It's good though, because I completyly forget about checkig if there is something to download from Corel.com... Also the grafient file opens good in HPS RIP, but is BW in PosterPrint. A file saved in EPS is in color. In PDF is in color. Same in Tif - is BW.
In my home I got x5 student, which has SAME options checked, and my imported bitmaps / created vectors - converted to Tif - opens good in PosterPrint after mailing them to my co-worker whos in company now. So it's something to do with this particular x5 in our job.
Go to www.corel.com then under support pick patches and updates, Sp 3 and hotfix4.