MPC2003 printing Dark

[Leebs14]

I have a two week old machine which has less than 1000 prints on it which is printing photos really dark. Every print comes out dark like a miserable winters day when the photo on the screen is a bright sunny day.

Before you think it's screen calibration or RGB to CMYK isn't the same and it's not a WYSIWYG printer etc etc the same photos print perfectly on their existing MPC2551.

I've calibrated it but haven't touched anything else as everything is as per a standard machine.

As a workaround I've created a profile in the print driver with the brightness increased by 50%.

Anyone seen this, using PCL6 driver

Thanks




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[slimslob]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Samples please.

[Zeldaman]

[slot]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

hi zeldaman I have an mpc2503 and some mpc3003 that all the customers do is say the pic that they print out are to dark I have tried the files on other copier like mpc 2800 3501 and they all print great I have also tried the adj the bit swt to get the copier better as per a bulletin from ricoh but it made very little change these copiers just print very poor it seems but then they are marketed as business copiers I would love to see an answer from ricoh.

[slimslob]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

One thing I had read concerning Metis line is that a full Auto Color Calibration should be ran not only prior to install but also after every firmware update. I don't know if this will help, but my experience with complaints of light copies has been that either there are no values in the ACC or it has been a long time since it was run. Cleaning the optics and running ACC usually takes care of the light copies.

[Leebs14]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

It's dark prints not light prints. I'll try and upload some samples later


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[slimslob]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

It's dark prints not light prints. I'll try and upload some samples later


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If the dark print is due to the print controller in the machine, the color gray scale will be printed darker than normal in the printer portion of the ACC. The scan portion will then detect that and adjust to compensate, assuming that the scanner has already been calibrated in the copy ACC.

[Leebs14]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Image-001.jpgImage-000.jpgsamples of the dark print attached. the MPC2551 prints so much better than their 2 week old brand new MPC2003??

[slimslob]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Have you tried the PCL5C driver?

[Leebs14]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

No I didn't, I'll remember to try it when I go back


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[Seriousfab]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Hi, how did you solve this ?

[Seriousfab]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Hi, have you find the solution ?

[Seriousfab]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

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Problem "Solved", switched MP C 2003 with MP C 3002 and no more dark problem...

[Gift]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Driver advanced setting (I think somewhere under the quality options) > color profile - > set everything to "color laser printer simulation" and compare the results

[Seriousfab]

Re: MPC2003 printing Dark

Well we tried all these settings and our conclusion is that the controller is weak, the image treatment is bad...