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 have all settings as you have described with no luck.
Did a test out of Illustrator 6 which I do not usually use and the colors seemed fine.
I will try to get with the printer people and see if there is a better/different driver I should be using.
Thanks anyway. I appreciate it.
Andy47240 said:I have all settings as you have described with no luck
Can you post screen captures of your CorelDRAW and printer dialogs, all the tabs but especially the color tabs.
I have no idea why I seen the separations dialogs.
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.
On the Color tab of Print dialog you have "Use color proof settings" mode activated. Is there reason for that? It shouldn't affect spot colors though. Could you please print a Pantone 375 CV test sample to PostScript file (check "Print to file" box in General tab) and share it so I can look into what is going into PostScript stream.
How do I share the .prn file?
If I click on or off "Use color proof settings" nothing changes.