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.
Just realised the Convert to Spot Colours box wasn't ticked, after re-ticking it, prints are coming out just fine. It could be worth trying that Andy.
(Apologies for "Hi-jacking" your thread with my problem, I thought they were very similar).
Rohan
It looks like your RIP or PostScript printer does not support LAB colors correctly (LAB palette color values are used by default for Pantone colors). Try changing "Spot color definition" setting from "LAB values" to "CMYK values" in Tools->Color Management->Default Settings dialog, if you need to preserve your spots in the PostScript.
My current Color Management settings.
CorelDraw X6
Windows 7 64x
Ricoh C830 printer
If there is are any other specs that could help. Let me know.
The printer is new too, so could there be something in the printer settings that could be causing the issue?
I prefer to use the Adobe RGB 1998 color space instead of the sRGB. The Adobe RGB 1998 has a larger color gamut than sRGB and CMYK which you may or may not need. I periodically run into color matching issues when using customer supplied sRGB files.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm
I also use "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" color profile, uncheck "Preserve pure black" and use CMYK for Spot Color, but that is what we've found works best for our workflow.
First, try to update PostScript printer drivers, it looks like this model has two different PS drivers and they both are recently updated ( below is snippet from Ricoh USA website):
If this still does not work, change Draw's spot color definition from LAB to CMYK. Alternatively enable options to convert spot colors to CMYK on PS/EPS output/printing.