Hi all, new member, old user (since coreldraw 1.1!), having issues with color management. I'll try to keep it simple, although I doubt this is an easy one to fix.
Printing within X3 shows white as yellowish hue, and most colors are incorrect (CMYK, RGB, Pantone spot colors) when printed, although very close on screen.
I have an i1Pro and X-Rite Profilemaker 5.0.10 installed, monitors are calibrated correctly and from photoshop and Illustrator, printer prints correctly after full profile done.
If I export a file with 1 inch squares of R, G, B, C, M, Y and K (as eps), then brought into photoshop for testing (imported as cmyk, exported from X3 as cmyk), I can see all the colors are correct, and the file prints perfectly. However, if I print from X3, colors are incorrect.
I've screwed with the color management for hours today and a bit yesterday, even turning off the ICC profiles within win 7 64 to make it completely "stock", and nothing I can do will change the colors at all from printing within X3.
I've also disabled color management in X3 and printed, no change at all. Changing the monitor profile from generic to the custom ICC profile in win7 creates a grey-brown hue over the whole page when printing, even where there are no elements!
I've attached a photo of the color variation in printing so I can further relay how far the colors are off, not sure what else to try at this point since I've completely turned off color management and the problem still exists!
This is also not something new, its been around for quite a long time now, I'm just tired of exporting everything so I can print relatively correct colors to my proofing printers (an HP 451DN, standard color proofing, more for art design and not so much color intent, and an Epson i9900 which is for full-color match proofs).
Luckily, exporting as an eps file works flawlessly, which is what we use for our Roland XC-540 printer/cutter, which is calibrated and Roland's RIP runs from an old XP machine, completely separated from our main design machine.
So much for keeping it short! Any help from you pros out there on getting colors to print better without messing up the export as eps function would be HUGELY appreciated!!!
Chris
Print:
Yep, understood, David!
I'm sure you'll understand my apprehension towards upgrading. first is the fact that Corel in the past has had many, MANY bad versions that just crash if you look at it funny (version 4 and 8 come to mind!), and second, which ties into the previous issue, is the fact that our busy shop cannot afford to be down for upgrade issues and setting up all the little things that make corel effecient in our shop.
Having said that, I'll start researching this weekend what latest 2 or 3 versions are the most stable with the least amount of crashes and other anomalies, as well as the option to install the photoshop edit and update functions, and the cutchoice plugin, into the program, as they are used all day long.
As for the settings, that's not the normal setting I use, I was merely saying that the screenshot really should be the way to turn all management off in corel, but it's not! My normal settings are far from that, this is what I normally run in my shop:
Seems to work good, although exporting via eps (and sometimes psd) is all we can really rely on.
My final question, I think, would be, how the hell do you just turn all the management completely off in Corel if my first photo I uploaded yesterday doesn't turn it off? Is there a hidden setting somewhere? Perhaps there's something in the corelapp.ini file I haven't seen or need to add in?
Thanks again for all your insight, its good to have an informed discussion with someone who knows Corel so well! As you know, there's not many folks who even know Corel, let alone are well-versed in the program!
Try activating the arrow from the US web coated swop print to the design works. If that does not work turn that off and activate the arrow from the RGB circles to the design works
BTW the upgrade can be interesting if you've used custom spot palettes in your design if not than it can be fairly straight forward.
try this: choose "Optimized for professional output" on presets, and enable those two arrows.
The problem with this arrow from the CMYK printer to the display is that RGB elements that can be sent to the Roland as RGB in PDF are shown as CMYK and will print at a wider gamut from the Roland.