COLOR QUALITY MPC3003SP

[sharpmind]

Guys, is there a way to print the exact color of the photos/drawings in MPC 3003sp? Printing in other machines like MPC3002 is good. Prints in MPC 3003sp is darker than prints in MPC3002.

[Gift]

Guys, is there a way to print the exact color of the photos/drawings in MPC 3003sp? Printing in other machines like MPC3002 is good. Prints in MPC 3003sp is darker than prints in MPC3002.

Yeah try PCL6 driver and within the driver go to quality and somewhere there you can change the color profile to "color laser printer simulation" (or something related sounding). You'll notice a better printer gamma curve, especially in darker image areas.

[slimslob]

Frequently the PCL5 driver has better color quality.

[myxer1234]

I had the same issue with a C2003. Colors were good when making copies, but prints were off. Had to clear the printer memory and the colors were perfect.

[mikadonovan]

Guys, is there a way to print the exact color of the photos/drawings in MPC 3003sp? Printing in other machines like MPC3002 is good. Prints in MPC 3003sp is darker than prints in MPC3002.

If the customer is complaining about color matching on a office class piece of equipment, you need to nip that in the butt immediately. Tell them about Fiery controllers and the in depth training they will need just to use it, as well as the cost to purchase and install it. This is not a pro model machine.

[slimslob]

Guys, is there a way to print the exact color of the photos/drawings in MPC 3003sp? Printing in other machines like MPC3002 is good. Prints in MPC 3003sp is darker than prints in MPC3002.

In a word, NO. No matter what you do, the color on a color laser printer will never match exactly what you see on the computer screen, that is unles the colors are only cyan, megenta, yellow and black. Computers use the light colors red, green and blue, RBG. Printers use the pigments cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The total color pallet available to a monitor is much larger than that available to the printer.

That said, always run ACC when you have color problems. This is especially true with the XX03's. Also run ACC on these every time you update firmware.

[Polarbear]

In a word, NO. No matter what you do, the color on a color laser printer will never match exactly what you see on the computer screen, that is unles the colors are only cyan, megenta, yellow and black. Computers use the light colors red, green and blue, RBG. Printers use the pigments cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The total color pallet available to a monitor is much larger than that available to the printer.

That said, always run ACC when you have color problems. This is especially true with the XX03's. Also run ACC on these every time you update firmware.

+1 Slimslob

The only way to get it close is to have the monitor calibrated and to use a machine with Fiery controller (and that is Pantone certified!)

Otherwise they can forget it! Some of our techs thought they could "tweak" the colour, only to find that they were soon back for mismatches on other documents.... they learnt the hard way!

[sharpmind]

I have found out that the default print resolution of MPC3002 is 600x600 and for MPC 3003 is 2400x600. I think this is the reason why the print quality of MP C3003sp is darker than MP C3002.

[StrippedScrew]

+1 Slimslob

The only way to get it close is to have the monitor calibrated and to use a machine with Fiery controller (and that is Pantone certified!)

My standard answer is "When is the last time you calibrated your monitor?". Unless they are in a graphic design environment the answer will be "never". "I can't calibrate the copier to an uncalibrated monitor sir. That would throw everything off". That usually gets them to bug off.