[PrintOwners] KM6500 Color Consistency

[Scott Cappel]

No.

Never.

But then again we have the CREO DFE.

My opinion is that you are asking too much of your internal RIP.

Its also my opinion that the internal Fiery was never intended for 
professional color reproduction.

IF you add a CREO your problems will disappear.

S.



At 06:25 AM 10/7/2008, you wrote:
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>We've had the box since Jan 07, first one in our market and knew 
>there would be a learning curve. Ours has the embedded Fiery. For 
>most jobs, it is absolutely great. However, when we need to repeat a 
>job and the color is somewhat critical, as an example pms blue 280, 
>we cannot get back to the original color. After many service calls, 
>we finally had a meeting with the top guys in the dealership where 
>we bought it. GM, VP Service, service tech.
>
>Our normal daily routine is a color calibration first thing with the 
>spectrophotometer. Same paper, same procedure. Then we would run 2 
>files to see how well that color was holding up. If not okay, then 
>we would call service.
>
>At the meeting, we were informed that the machine was designed with 
>a bunch of "user friendly" options so we could go in and make 
>adjustments and "tweak" the color to get where we need to be. What 
>we had to do was run the gamma and toner refresh then print out a 
>"gray point" sheet to see where we were then adjust the cmyk values 
>as needed to get the "gray point." Once that was completed, then do 
>the calibration.
>
>Okay, fine, we'll do it. It added about 10 minutes to the daily 
>routine. Problem is, we still can't get some colors back where they 
>should be. Even using the color eye to scan and save the profile 
>gets close but can't reproduce the same color as the original run. 
>In Command Workstation, using Spot on color, the machine would print 
>out the color swatch okay but would not print the same color when 
>applied to the file.
>
>So now, our customers who really look at color consistency are 
>asking us why their shades don't match previous runs.
>
>Is this a situation anyone else has encountered with their machine?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Richard Cobb
>Allegra Print & Imaging
>1155 Kildaire Farm Road
>Cary, NC  27511
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