Colour difference

[leo34staffs]

Hi guys,

This seems to apply to a few different machines, not just ricoh, when i print a particular document (a customer is printing cornflakes) the colour on one side seems to vary, although on the screen it looks ok?

Im printing a pdf. anyone ideas?

[sharpmind]

Basically, the color display has to be calibrated or adjusted so that the colors we have seen in the screen would match in the printout..

[blackcat4866]

This won't correct your prints, but it may help you identify a color problem with the original electronic document.

Download a cool little utility called ColorPic: ColorPic, The Desktop ColorPicker Software
When ColorPic is open, you can hover your cursor over an area of the original, and get RGB or CMYK numbers for that area. Then you can compare those areas to other areas of the original document. ColorPic will let you save color swatches for comparison.

From what you say, I suspect that there is some color variation in the original electronic document, which you are not going to be able to correct for on the MFP. Good luck explaining this to the customer.

The conversation goes like this:
customer "... but it looks different in this part of the print."
you "With the use of this tool, we can see that the two areas that you are comparing are indeed different colors. See the different number readings?"
customer "Can't you adjust the copier to fix that?"
you "The problem is with the original electronic document, not with the printer."
customer " ... but we can't fix the original. Can't you fix the copier?"
you "The copier isn't broken. It's printing exactly what you're sending it."
and on, and on, and on,
=^..^=

[CT Copier Repair]

"well the salesman said it would look just like we wanted.
And it looks nothing like we want so it must be the machine.
Why don't you fix it?"

"the machine can't correct a file problem maam"

"well then this doesn't do what we want it to and you should have never sold it to us. I told the slaesman that it had to look exactly like we wanted it to and he said that would not be a problem"

"Sorry maam but I didn't tell you this or sell you the machine"
And on and on

amendment to Shakespeare
"first thing we do is kill all the lawyers by beating them to death using salesman as a blunt instrument" "Then we kill the salesman"

[leo34staffs]

Thanks for the replys guys, i did do a colour analysis in photoshop and they were not that different, i have downloaded colour pic, that seems like a useful app, many thanks.

[Eric1968]

"well the salesman said it would look just like we wanted.
And it looks nothing like we want so it must be the machine.
Why don't you fix it?"

"the machine can't correct a file problem maam"

"well then this doesn't do what we want it to and you should have never sold it to us. I told the slaesman that it had to look exactly like we wanted it to and he said that would not be a problem"

"Sorry maam but I didn't tell you this or sell you the machine"
And on and on

amendment to Shakespeare
"first thing we do is kill all the lawyers by beating them to death using salesman as a blunt instrument" "Then we kill the salesman"

Yeah, sure! And when the salesmen are dead, you're out of (repair) business!