Disappointing output quality from irc-5185

[anothertech]

SVR, when you say digital machine, aren't all new machines digital?

[Kapten]

If you are setting op the rip right with the right flow and right profil.
You can get quite good pictures.
The problem is that if the rip is using wrong profiles it looks like hell.
Is the picture rgb or cmyk? How is the flow witch profiles are you using?
Do you have an I1 eye one or another photospectrometer?
On efi home page there is a lot to read and i promise the result will be werry nice.
And use Command Workstation 4 to this modell.
If you make 1 paperprofile and one outputprofile i should be good.
Good luck

[teckat]

If you are setting op the rip right with the right flow and right profil.
You can get quite good pictures.
The problem is that if the rip is using wrong profiles it looks like hell.
Is the picture rgb or cmyk? How is the flow witch profiles are you using?
Do you have an I1 eye one or another photospectrometer?
On efi home page there is a lot to read and i promise the result will be werry nice.
And use Command Workstation 4 to this modell.
If you make 1 paperprofile and one outputprofile i should be good.
Good luck

good info, but this printer is not for heavy saturation of color/ sales needs to tell the truth/or end up in court/in this economy high end customers will not put up with phony deals

[Canuck]

Does this customer run coated stock? I have 3200s and 5185s in print shops...customers understand dont expect pantone matching but expect close with good gradations. If they run coated stock like my customers wash the drums with pure isopropol alcohol....coating from paper adheres to itb then is transferred to drums. I wash drums on these models all the time for weak halftones....unless drum has run its course. These machines will handle 100 percent coverage pretty good. Does the customer do FULL GRADATIONS when he changes stock?? Lots of factors to make the machine work properly

[teckat]

Does this customer run coated stock? I have 3200s and 5185s in print shops...customers understand dont expect pantone matching but expect close with good gradations. If they run coated stock like my customers wash the drums with pure isopropol alcohol....coating from paper adheres to itb then is transferred to drums. I wash drums on these models all the time for weak halftones....unless drum has run its course. These machines will handle 100 percent coverage pretty good. Does the customer do FULL GRADATIONS when he changes stock?? Lots of factors to make the machine work properly

Yeah u can do full 100% gradations/ but your Drums will crap out at between 5,000>7,000 prints. as far as using alcohol to clean surface ,that is not new/ if u can run around every time a customer needs a cleaning good luck !! Like i said Print shops expect miracles / that is why my company will not service/lease or give a contract to a print shop.

[Canuck]

Yeah u can do full 100% gradations/ but your Drums will crap out at between 5,000>7,000 prints. as far as using alcohol to clean surface ,that is not new/ if u can run around every time a customer needs a cleaning good luck !! Like i said Print shops expect miracles / that is why my company will not service/lease or give a contract to a print shop.

To each their own.....we sell to print shops all the time ....and drums dont crap out at 5000 prints