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Jeff Green
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Hey!
Have some trouble with the edge here. Trying to print of a tif on the edge of a wild rose (official flower of ALberta). Basically the pedals are a nice pink/magenta color. I know in the file the color does not have any cyan, but when i print it of, there is some cyan in the pedals. Enough that it turns the color purple.

Any suggestions on this? I just can not figure out a way to fix this.

Thanks!

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Jeff Green
Taylor Signs
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Gene Golden
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Jeff,
I don't know if this would help, but it never stopped me from making suggestions before. In Omega, click on "file", about 6 lines down - "Color Management", and note your settings.
Mine is set as follows (rightly or wrongly, I usually get to print what I see);
Gerber Imaging:
- "EDGE 220 Vinyl CMYK GerberTone Photo".
Image Source Profile:
- CMYK is set to "Gerber (GSP) SWOP CMYK"
- RGB is set to "Gerber (GSP) RGB"
This may or may not help, but it's a start. Call me if you need.

[ September 08, 2004, 04:27 PM: Message edited by: Gene Golden ]

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Gene Golden
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Jeff Green
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Thanks There Gene, those are the same setting that I have in my Edge. I am trying something else right now (just phone tech support at nd graphics, I will see what happens)

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Jeff Green
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Nevermind, their suggestion never worked at all....
The pedals on the rose are still turning out purple... what a pain.

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Jeff Green
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Jeff,
Another thing you may try is in your photo program. In Adobe it's under Image/Mode/CMYK (or RGB). Try adjusting the CMYK mix in the artwork itself before Exporting it to Gerber. Export it as a JPG instead of a TIFF and see if that works.

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Mike Berry
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Jeff,

There is another site that has a bunch of smart folks when it comes to the edge. www.4edgetalk.com

Mike

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Mike Berry
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I'm a big fan of "band-aid" solutions, especially if it's not a recurring problem. So even though there may be college courses worth of technical info on color management out there... I'm more one to experiment with a few 10 minute solutions that may work.

Gene's is a good one for example... if the edge see's things purplier then it should... send someting less purple, (or magentier [Smile] )

another idea I would try first, in the print options box (123 icon) drag the cyan down to the last color in the print order... then print the first 3 colors... if it looks right without cyan, yer done!

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Right-o Doug....I was going to suggest not printing the Cyan.....no cyan, no purple tone.

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Todd Gill
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Also if your tif file looks like vector artwork (all solid colors) try printing it with the halftone spiral dot at 95 LPI

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Nathan Rule
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Not sure what program you are using but I print to my Edge from Flexi and choosing the correct bitmap rendering makes a big difference.

A Lot to choose from >> perpetual, relative colorimetric, saturation, absolute colorimetric, and spot all print differently.

I find relative colorimetric prints closest to what I see on screen and can expect from the printer. Perpetual second.

Mike

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Mike
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Jeff,
Any luck with the suggestions? Did anything work?

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