Hi!
I'm having some problems with the color quality on our Xerox DC250 printers: The prints are always too dark and some have bad color shifts.
The quality when doing color copies is quite okay, so I guess my problem has something to do with the Fiery and/or the driver settings.
The printer gets frequently calibrated using an X-Rite DTP 32.
I'm using Acrobat Pro (9.0) to send print jobs to the integrated Fiery. ColorWise options are set to their default settings:
RGB-Source: Fiery RGB -> Presentation -> Output (not Simulation)
CMYK-Source: ISO Coated -> Output-GCR
Spot: On
Black: Black Text/Graphics and Overprint Text/Graphics
Output-Profile: depends on media
According to my color management knowledge, it should be fine if I tell Acrobat to use "Printer based color management" so it should leave the colors untouched and include any document-/ and system-related ICC-profiles in the print job. I use the same setting when printing to my large format postscript printers (HP DesignJets) and the result are ok.
But the print results are quite bad, depending on the color space used in the PDF file: Everything's too dark and RGB-images are far away from what I see on my (calibrated) monitor. Grey-looking RGB-colors are greenish and even objects, which are using CMYK-colorspace don't look really good.
Am I missing something here? Which color workflow do you prefer when printing "mainstream files" out of Adobe applications on your Fiery?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I'm having some problems with the color quality on our Xerox DC250 printers: The prints are always too dark and some have bad color shifts.
The quality when doing color copies is quite okay, so I guess my problem has something to do with the Fiery and/or the driver settings.
The printer gets frequently calibrated using an X-Rite DTP 32.
I'm using Acrobat Pro (9.0) to send print jobs to the integrated Fiery. ColorWise options are set to their default settings:
RGB-Source: Fiery RGB -> Presentation -> Output (not Simulation)
CMYK-Source: ISO Coated -> Output-GCR
Spot: On
Black: Black Text/Graphics and Overprint Text/Graphics
Output-Profile: depends on media
According to my color management knowledge, it should be fine if I tell Acrobat to use "Printer based color management" so it should leave the colors untouched and include any document-/ and system-related ICC-profiles in the print job. I use the same setting when printing to my large format postscript printers (HP DesignJets) and the result are ok.
But the print results are quite bad, depending on the color space used in the PDF file: Everything's too dark and RGB-images are far away from what I see on my (calibrated) monitor. Grey-looking RGB-colors are greenish and even objects, which are using CMYK-colorspace don't look really good.
Am I missing something here? Which color workflow do you prefer when printing "mainstream files" out of Adobe applications on your Fiery?
Any help would be greatly appreciated