[Misc] Cyan on MX5112N

[paulow1978]

Hi,

I am posting here in a last ditched effort to try and work out what is going on with two new printers we have just received from our sharp dealer. I have had an engineer out to look at it but essentialy was told the printer color is calibrated fine and that it was on my side (i.e. windows OS/network) that was the issue.

Basically, I appreciate these printers are not for exact color matching so I am not hoping the colors to be absolutely spot on. But I do think these printers should at least be able to get half way to what we want. If I search on google for a cyan test page and print it, the cyan that comes out of the printer is way off. Its more grey blue than cyan, in fact there is no aquamarine showing whatsoever.

I googled cyan and found that what the printer is actually printing is subtractive cyan rather than additive cyan. Is there some setting I can change on the printer in order to rectify this?

thanks,

Paul

[mojorolla]

Re: Cyan on MX5112N

There are three standard color targets built into the Sharp machines, the default leaning towards the magenta side. The other two lean more towards cyan and would probably be more to your liking. There is a common misconception that the color on your computer monitor will be rendered exactly the same from a printer.
Most advanced imaging software require the computer monitor and the printer be calibrated. There are also the print drivers themselves i.e PS, PCL 5 and 6 etc. This is not to mention the settings within those drivers like dpi, screening, gamma and so on. And let's not forget paper; poor paper equals poor copy quality. If you want a true rendering of color, try Pantone. With Sharp, you also have the option of the Color Monkey. It is fairly cheap and kinda fun to use.