Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery

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  • onlyinnewfoundland
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    • Apr 2013
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    [CQ] Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery

    Hey everyone

    Looking for suggestions from you guys with regards to colour management on iR-ADV and imagePRESS products that use fiery's.

    I am trained on every product but where I find my troubleshooting knowledge is lacking is in the colour management and press calibration areas...

    Seems like half of the customers I deal with that have a Fiery attached to a ADV or PRESS product, they complain often about what's on screen vs what's on paper.

    This seems to be a trend in smaller marketing firms or smaller printshops who are just dabbling with digital. Most of them do not have a graphic designer who seems to know much about RGB vs CMYK.

    How do you guys deal with these accounts?

    I'd love to help these people better than I currently am - sounds like 75% of it can be resolved over the phone.

    Not sure how I should be approaching the issues when everybody is using different software these days - I have accounts that use Adobe products and Corel Draw.

    Should the printer handle the colours? Or should we be letting the software determine it all?

    From what I can tell half the time it looks like the printer the production software are fighting against each other.

    Any help much appreciated!
  • teckat
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    • Jan 2010
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    Re: Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery

    No matter what u say or demonstrate to an under pressured , underpaid, under-trained or so called "Graphic Designer" about Canon Color, they treat u like "Just the Repair Guy"

    I give them the "Fiery Command Workstation Manual----and point them to the "Managing Color" section.


    Dropbox - EFI_Command_WorkStation.pdf

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    A measurement instrument can provide more accurate calibration than ColorCal can. Use a measurementinstrument, such as the ES-1000 spectrophotometer, if one is available.

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    • teckat
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      Re: Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery




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      • onlyinnewfoundland
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        • Apr 2013
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        Re: Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery

        Originally posted by teckat
        No matter what u say or demonstrate to an under pressured , underpaid, under-trained or so called "Graphic Designer" about Canon Color, they treat u like "Just the Repair Guy"

        I give them the "Fiery Command Workstation Manual----and point them to the "Managing Color" section.


        Dropbox - EFI_Command_WorkStation.pdf

        ================================================== ======================
        Note:
        A measurement instrument can provide more accurate calibration than ColorCal can. Use a measurementinstrument, such as the ES-1000 spectrophotometer, if one is available.

        Helpful info links for customers and techs---------------------------------------------
        Download drivers, manuals, reference guides, documentation, instructions for Koncia Minolta, Brother, Oki, Samsung, FP, Ideal-MBM


        Color Management - EFI

        EFI - Color Management Software & Spectrophotometers
        Hey thanks a lot man

        I did find a way to "cure" his issue at least within Corel - you have to tell the program to use the C750 to render/convert the colours instead of letting Corel or one of their color profiles do it.

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        • teckat
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          Re: Colour Management - iR-ADV/imagePRESS w/ Fiery

          Originally posted by onlyinnewfoundland
          Hey thanks a lot man

          I did find a way to "cure" his issue at least within Corel - you have to tell the program to use the C750 to render/convert the colours instead of letting Corel or one of their color profiles do it.

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